14 October 2016

Harvest Festival

Today we celebrated the Harvest Festival at Trinity Methodist Church.  We had a great time and all the children did exceptionally well,  Many of the children had speaking parts and they spoke using lovely, clear voices.  It was also so lovely to see so many parents joining us for the Harvest…

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13 October 2016

A Professional Manner!

The children in upper KS2 are encouraged to take on responsibilities; distributing registers, playground buddies as well as phone duty.

Recently, a number of callers have commented on the professional manner of the children, in particular:

Molly Wignal Smith

Holly McNulty

Joshua…

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12 October 2016

Fire Safety

On Monday 18th October we held our first Fire Drill.

The children and staff all evacuated the building quickly and well within the specified 3 minutes.

Reception and Pre-School did exceptionally well and were so sensible. Mrs O'Hanlon was very proud of them.

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12 October 2016

Silver Birch Log Pile

A big thankyou to Mr Buckett for making our new sign! 

We have added leaves and some twigs around the logs now, so hopefully lots of animals will now make their home there. 

We will let you know next year which animals we find living in our log pile.

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11 October 2016

Times Tables Rockstar Challenge

Last week Miss Baker set us the challenge of completing 15 studio games on TimeTables Rockstar. These are the children who completed this challenge with some children doing even more! Well done! 

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11 October 2016

Rock Heroes

 

 

Congratulations Harvey and Isaac. 

You are Rock Heroes

These boys are the only two children to have completed all four session challenges that have been set for the class.Well done.

Come on Year 4!

You can all be Rock Heroes.

 

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7 October 2016

Teddy Bears' Picnic in Reception

If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise because today's the day the teddy bears had a picnic!

Oak Class were very excited this morning as they brought their favourite teddies to school for a picnic. We spent the morning designing faces for teddy bear biscuits and then…

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7 October 2016

This weeks attendance winners are...Year Two!!!!!

Attendance winners at last!!

Year Two had 99% attendance last week and won the Attendance Trophy. I think we could win this every week! All we have to do is make sure we all have 100% attendance and we arrive at school on time every day.

We can do it Year Two!

Well done to you…

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7 October 2016

School Car Park

This week I was visited by a member of LCC Health & Safety Team. I was informed that there has recently been a death in a school car park.

Please can I remind parents that the car park is for staff cars only. I have also spoken to the children and explained the dangers of using it as a short…

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7 October 2016

Using Digimap!

 

In Year 3 this week we have been using a program on the computers called ‘Digimap’. Using Digimap we have been looking at maps of the local area from the present day and from 1900.

We have been investigating which ‘human’ and ‘physical’ features have developed over the last 116…

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7 October 2016

Science

During the last couple of weeks we have been looking at the reproductive cycle of plants.  This week we took cuttings from geranium plants to see if new plants will grow.

 

 

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7 October 2016

Outdoor Weeks

We have been learning so much outdoors over the last few weeks.

During our outdoor learning weeks we have taken part in : bike ability, water safety, catapult challenges, Mile Monday, maths outside, geography fieldwork and bike riding in our community.

Then in science we created new species…

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