Greenpower Racing Update
Our racing car is taking shape and we now have the bodywork fitted to the chassis. Year 5 have done a tremendous job of designing the body work and the final results are really impressive. On the construction front, Year 6 have a few jobs left to do. The battery and the brake need to be fitted…
Ready Steady Cook !
We were lucky enough to have been involved in a fantastic event this week to help promote cooking and healthy eating. The school food showdown, funded by Tamworth County Council, is based on the Ready Steady Cook format. Children were chosen at random to represent the red or green team. Recipe…
Non Chronological Reports
Class 3 are busy reading The Explorer by Katherine Randell at the moment and lots of their independent writing has be done around the theme of rainforests. Here, the children had to choose and research an animal that lives in the rainforest. From their research their task was to produce a non…
Class 3 Football and Netball
Mr Wynn brought a group of year 5/6 children over from St Mary’s for a football and netball friendly competition. It was great to see so many children having the opportunity to represent their school. The honours were shared as St Mary’s won the football match while the Howard girls were…
Playground Leader Training
Children in year 4 and 5 have started their playground leader awards this week with Stoke City. The training will help children to have the knowledge and confidence to set up and lead sports activities at lunchtime. They will have the opportunity to develop many leadership skills such as…
Class 3 Coding
This term, Class 3 has stated a unit of work on coding. Each person in the class has been given their own micro bit ! The micro bit is capable of recognising sounds, temperature, speed and even magnetism. Like all computers, it will not work unless it is programmed accurately. That is where…
Stubby Lees Carol Singing
We made our annual trip to Stubby Lees care home last week to entertain the residents with our beautiful singing. Members of Class 2 and Class 3 sang a number of Christmas hymns including Away in a Manger and Silent night. I was immensely proud of the children who took part. Not only did…
Class 3 visit Stoke City
Class 3 had an action packed day when the visited the Bet 365 stadium - the home of Stoke City Football Club. The day was split into 2 parts. The morning gave the children the opportunity to play a number of different sporting games in the training dome. In the afternoon we made the short journey…
Class 3 Knitting
What a difference a couple of weeks practice can make! As the majority of us started as novice knitters we have made excellent progress on our scarves for our WW2 evacuee teddy bear. Our adult helpers have been amazing teaching us the skills of knitting and as you can see from the photographs we…
Class 3 Arboretum Visit
On Wednesday 22nd November, Class 3 visited the National Memorial Arboretum in support of our History topic on World War 2. It was cold but sunny when we arrived and were met by Mrs Howard, our expert guide. We had a wonderful morning learning about the significance of many of the memorials…
Belgrave Fire Station
On Tuesday morning, Class 3 visited Belgrave Fire station for a number of workshops. They included : fire safety, dementia awareness, CPR, citizenship and water safety. As you can see from the photographs the activities were interactive and extremely informative.
Class 3 Earth and Space
Class 3 started their new science topic this week which is EARTH AND SPACE. Our first task was to consider the size of each planet and then order them in terms of their distance from the sun. Once we had collected our data we represented it by making a 3D model of the Solar System. The finished…