It has been truly wonderful to welcome our children into school today.
The buzz in the classrooms, the sea of red, blue and white and smiling faces has been a real pleasure.
Welcome to our new children and their families in Class R - we met 8 new starters today and we are looking forward to welcoming the rest of the children throughout the week.
Let's enjoy being back together with our class friends - can you discover something new about one of your peers?
Here's to a year of kindness, building on previous knowledge, new discoveries, exciting learning and being the best we can be!
See you tomorrow!
Today was the opening ceremony of the Paralympics 2021. Please follow the links below to find out about some of the awesome athletics and the events:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58319336
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58113760.amp
Please enjoy the coverage and tell us about your highlights of these games.
Calling all children and adults too!
Summer is a wonderful time to pick up a book and read for enjoyment - I know I will be doing just that with my early morning cup of tea!
Below are some reading challenges for over the summer holidays - choose a level of challenge and try to complete the different reading challenges. Please either upload your completed form to Google Classroom or print it out and return it to school when you come back in September. All entries will go into a prize draw and winners will be picked out in our first Gold Book assembly.
Enjoy, relax and keeeeeep reading!
Download Summer reading challenge 1
Download Summer reading challenge 2
Download Summer reading challenge 3
Download Summer reading challenge 4
Download Summer reading challenge 5
Download Summer reading challenge 6
Our online libraries which we have been using since our Lockdown learning will also be available all through the summer - please enjoy.
In PE, year five spent last term practising tennis skills and drills and it was wonderful, on their last lesson before the half term break, to spend the time at Smalley Lawn Tennis Club. How lucky we are to have such super courts on our doorstep and we're very grateful to the club for giving us access to the fabulous facilities. We had a super afternoon and the children enjoyed practising sufficient power to get the ball over the net, working on their diagonal direction, serving and returning the ball. They worked really hard and were quite worn out afterwards! It was definitely an effective cardio session! They had a fabulous time and it was wonderful to see their enthusiasm. Well done especially to Theo whose experience at his club showed and he definitely helped in a coaching capacity during our time on court. Well done Class 5!
Following Mental Health Awareness Week, it's been wonderful to receive so many photos of the children connecting with nature and I would love to share them with you here. I hope you feel inspired to get outdoors and connect with nature, whether that's for exercise, pleasure, conservation, creativity, mindfulness or whether you bring the outdoors into your home: the mental health benefits are tremendous. Thank you so much to all the children, parents and grandparents who got in touch to share their adventures- the photos and messages have been truly uplifting :)
Class 5 have been learning about Fauvism which is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (including Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is during the time our class text, The Railway Children, was written. Fauvism is characterised by strong colours and the name les fauves translates as ‘the wild beasts’. The fauvists were interested in scientific colour theories developed in the nineteenth century – particularly those relating to complementary colours that when viewed side by side seem brighter.
We hope you like these 'wild' and abstract impressions of trains that the children created to link with our heritage theme and focus on trains in the curriculum...
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