School Council’s first visit with Barry from Dementia Caring
Today our new school council had their first meeting with Barry from the Time Out dementia caring charity.
Barry shared the story behind the development of the charity and how school council supported the charity last year.
The children were really engaged and asked fantastic questions. We…
Remembrance Day
We have had some fantastic conversations around remembrance today.
Class 3 took part in a live remembrance service which included interviews with veterans and poetry performances. We have also had a collective assembly looking at the history behind remembrance and acknowledging that it has been…
Drama in Pompeii!!!
Class two’s new text is Escape on Pompeii.
This morning we rewrote the section of the story where the volcano erupts and turned it into a play.
There was some fantastic acting !
Fizz Pop Science
Wow!
What a great introduction to our Fizz Pop Science club.
We can’t wait to see what the children get up to.
Forest school
We have had a busy couple of weeks in forest school, climbing trees, experimenting with natural colours to make paints, carving and modelling with clay and natural materials and of course den building.
Endangered Species Investigations
We have been busy in science today investigating different species and why they are endangered.
We created fact files based on our chosen animal.
Perfect Purple Proof Reading
We’ve worked so hard on our portal stories based on our class book Leon and the Place Between.
Today we finally completed them and spent time with our proofreading partners to edit and improve our work.
Maths Manipulatives
We were looking at some tricky concepts in our maths lesson today but using the manipulatives really helped us.
We used the place value counters to look at adding and subtracting when crossing boundaries. Fantastic maths today.
MacMillan Coffee Afternoon
Wow!
What a fantastic afternoon raising money for MacMillan.
A massive thank you to all those who baked, donated and joined us for tea and cake.
Also, a huge thank you to Year 5 who ran the event - they really stepped up.
Keep your eyes peeled for the reveal of how much was…
Chutney making at The Howard
With the help of our wonderful PTA volunteers, we have had a lovely afternoon chutney making with the tomatoes we grew over the summer. All children participated in house groups and created some delicious chutneys that will be available soon.
Creepy Crawly Classification
This afternoon we completed a mini beast hunt in forest school.
We then used classification keys to find out their names and whether they were a vertebrate or an invertebrate.
Phunky Foods Super Surveys
Phunky Foods have been working with Helen today carrying out surveys on healthy snacks.
We shared ideas for healthy snacks and discussed which snacks would be good choices.
Thank you Phunky Foods ambassadors.