Well done to the eco-committee, they managed to collect four bags of rubbish from our school grounds last week
Year 4 have taken part in Level 1 BikeAbility this week.
After learning how to check their bike and clothing for safety, they practised making observations and maintaining a suitable riding position.
They also learnt how to communicate with others around them, practising signals for turning.
Well done Year 4!
Today Year 1/2 were visited by some staff at Nissan. They showed them all the different kinds of cars they make at the factory.
The children then had a go at designing their own car before creating some with Lego. The best car design and best Lego creations all received a Nissan lunchbox as a prize!
We definitely have some future car designers in Key Stage 1!
Children visited the Word and took part in a workshop to:
- Build programmable models following instructions
- Create programmes to control models.
- Write a program that includes count-controlled loops
- Connect more than one output device
- Explain that a loop can stop when a condition is met, eg number of times, when a button is pressed, or do until … etc
- Predict the functions
- Sequence a series of commands
- Use conditionals to trigger their programming
- Use sensors to initiate or stop programming
- Test and debug the project
Some of our ARC 1 children posted our letters to Santa this morning. We were lucky enough to bump into an elf postman too! He showed us what the inside of the postbox looks like. We watched as he loaded our letters into the van and they began their journey to the North Pole.
‘TO GIVE, TO HELP, TO BE KIND AND CREATE HAPPINESS’
A new project has been introduced into the school
To Give, To Help, To Be Kind and Create Happiness.
Making Decorations for Various Events in school
The Giving Project volunteers have been enjoying making decorations for various events that have been held in school this term. They have made decorations for the Macmillan Coffee Morning, decorations to celebrate Autumn and beautiful decorations for Christmas. They also enjoyed helping to decorate the beautiful Christmas Tree in the school hall. The children have made a difference to all of these events creating ambiance and atmosphere and should be very proud of themselves.
Supporting Age Concern at Christmastime
The Giving Project volunteers kindly supported Age Concern by making beautiful handmade Christmas cards. A lady from Age Concern came to collect the cards from the children, she thanked them personally for their cards and explained how happy the old people will be when they receive them.. In return, this made the children feel very happy that they could help. School staff are very proud of them.
Year 4 had a visit from a storyteller that helped them create story beads to retell the birth story. They went through the story together adding a bead for every stage.
The stages were as follows:
- A blue bead for the world that God created.
- A heart bead to show that God loved everything he had created.
- A metal bead to represent money and the greed that people developed.
- A white and gold bead for the angel that told Mary of her baby to be born.
- Another blue bead for Mary as she is depicted in blue.
- A wooden bead for Joseph who was a carpenter.
- A green bead to remind us of the Shepherds green hills and fields and that Jesus would be a shepherd of people.
- A star bead to remind us of the star that lead the way.
- A gold bead to remind us of the first gift brought by the Magi.
- A purple bead for Frankincense, the second gift, used whilst you worship.
- An amber bead for Myrrh, the third gift, which was used to heal and prepare the dead.
- A white bead for the pure and perfect baby.
- Lastly, a ring to close the bead string symbolising peace and love for without love everything falls apart.
KS1 have had a lovely afternoon visiting St Nicholas Church and talking to Reverend Paul. Rev. Paul told them all about how they recognise Advent in church and they even sang some Christmas songs. The children listened so well, sang beautifully, and asked lots of insightful questions!
ARC 2 children had a lovely, chilly afternoon at Forest School. They explored the new mud kitchen and worked as a team to build some great dens.
The children from the ARC enjoyed their first joint COJO session this week. Our mission was to carry as many apples as possible from the woods to Granny’s house in five minutes.
Some great communication and team work!
