The Imam visited Year 2, 3 and 5 today to support our RE curriculum. He was thoroughly impressed by the children’s knowledge and the questions they asked.
Tomaz Lowrie-Herz
Local artist visit
We had a very special visitor in Year 6: Lyn Evans, the local artist we studied last term, came to visit us and look at our art work. She was very impressed with our work and spent time answering lots of wonderful questions from the children. She even signed a few autographs as the children felt like they were meeting a celebrity!
Dodgeball
Well done to our Dodgeball team. They did extremely well in their pool games and represented the school well. All the children showed a great ability to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge! Mr Simmons and I were thoroughly impressed with their dodgeball abilities, behaviour and honesty.
Author visit
We were visited by local author Michael McCarthy. We were all intrigued to hear how Michael, who is registered blind, has limited long-term memory and has learning difficulties, has overcome different challenges to achieve his goal to become an author.
We also found out how he has cycled from London to Paris, completed the London Marathon and won a gold medal in swimming at an international level.
He has great determination and his message was to set a goal and ‘get on with it’ and that you can achieve beyond what you think you’re capable of. This ties really well with our school vision to ‘Aim High, Climb Higher.’
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have been given a copy of one of his books each and a copy will be in our school Library.
3D design
Year 3 have been looking at 3D design using CAD. We played a few games which needed the children to visualise the placement of shapes to help solve different levels of each game. They had a go at creating an i-phone using different design features and then watched them be presented. We moved on to using our visualisation skills to build a table. The children correctly placed the legs, made them even in length and added a table top. We have some designers in the making!
Reading!
Our Reading Race results are in!
We were all really impressed with the number of finishers this term: it saw the most finishers ever (well done to all of these children). The picture shows just a few children from one year group.
A reminder that all that children need to do is to complete 4 home reads a week and they move on in the race. There is always a treat for those who finish and the chance to ‘win big’ in our prize draw (which has automatic entry for those finishing the race).
KS2 Carol Service
A fantastic Carol Service (with our Recorder Band too) at St George’s Church. Well done to all of our pupils and thank you to our staff, families and all at St George’s.
Amazing Gymnastics!
Using the hall equipment for gymnastics to practise our balances, turns and rolls.
Values Day – Happiness
We had a lovely time watching the panto this morning and then visiting the Christmas Tree Festival at the church . Is there a better way to continue the festivities and celebrate Happiness?
Thank you to Mrs Giles (and the other staff) who created the school’s Christmas tree.
Santa Dash
Well done to our Cross Country runners. They took part in the annual Santa Dash run against local school (hosted by Long Mountain). The course was very tough this year but perseverance and pure grit saw every single one of the runners finish the race.
