KS1 have had such a busy day! They held an amazing nativity that was introduced by Reverend Paul. It really got everyone in the Christmas mood. Then to finish off the day the children had fun at their after school Christmas party.
Please enjoy these photos of the children enjoying their Christmas parties this year.
Reception
Years 1 and 2
Years 3 and 4
Years 5 and 6
This half term in RE, Year 3 have been learning about Advent and have been working towards answering the question “How and why is Advent important to Christians?”
Today they created their own Christian advent calendar using card, glue, colouring pencils and scissors. They coloured in each candle on the Advent Wreath to represent hope, peace, joy and love (remembering that the third candle for joy is pink and not purple), then drew a Christmas picture to be revealed behind each door.
They will then be able to take them home and open each door on each Sunday of Advent as they count down to Christmas. I’m sure you’ll agree, the finished results are fabulous!
Children from KS1 and KS2 took a wintry Christmas walk to St Nicholas’ Church this morning. Once there, the children sung some of their favourite Christmas songs in this beautiful environment and talked with Rev. Paul about how Christians celebrate Christmas.
Rev. Paul was very impressed with some of the questions relating to the church itself.
All of the children were so impeccably behaved and are a real credit to our school!
Thank you Rev Paul.
In our “Come Fly With Me…to the Arctic” we have been learning about some of the traditional customs of the Inuit people who live within the Arctic Circle.
Today we learnt about the custom of Inuit Throat singing. A custom the woman would have taken part in while the men were away hunting. Standing very close to each other the ladies would replicate noises with their own voices that they would hear in nature. The partners would sing rhythmically but try to be the individual that could sing the longest.
Our ultimate class Throat singer was able to keep singing without stopping for breath or laughing against everyone including the teachers!
Our eco-warriors met a few weeks ago and took an audit of the school recycle bins. We discovered that 6 classrooms were without recycle bins.
Today we took delivery of our new bins and some of the eco-warriors helped to distribute them. Now every class can help recycle paper!
Year One drawing club have drawn some lovely festive pictures tonight. A reindeer and an elf on the shelf
Year 5 are enjoying their Dimensions topic ‘Mission Control’. Today in Art we looked closely at the different colours and textures of the Moon. We then thought carefully about how to create a realistic version. We think they look great and showed some real artistic skills. We will continue to develop these skills this week.
Class 4 have been exploring how to portray emotions through dance to music today. We talked about how our bodies might move to music that makes us feel sad, happy, angry and scared. We applied our new knowledge from our music lessons as we listened and talked about the tempo and dynamics. We then created a partner dance to show the emotions and tell the story of when Red Riding Hood met the Wolf at Grandmas. The children created some amazing dances!
Class 3 took our maths lesson outdoors! We made the most of the Autumn weather and completed some part-whole models using conkers.
