Adopt a penguin! πŸ§πŸ’•

We are very excited to announce that we have been gifted an animal adoption of St George the penguin! πŸ§πŸ’•Β A huge thank you to William in 4W and Sebastian in Nursery for our incredible Christmas gift. We are all very grateful and cannot wait to receive lots of updates! 😊🌟

Y4 Seasonal Stockings! πŸŽ„πŸŽ…β›„β„

As part of our Design and Technology unit, Year 4 have started their seasonal stockings project! 🧡🌟

Today, we have been practising our sewing skills looking at using 4 different stitches: a running stitch, zigzag stitch, back stitch and overstitch. We all demonstrated excellent perseverance and resilience learning a new skill! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ…

Christmas Writing Competition πŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸŽ„

Today, we announced the winners of our Christmas writing competition. We had some absolutely fantastic entries – poems, stories, diaries and even some Christmas jokes! It was incredibly difficult to choose our winners and runners up… but we managed, and here are pictures of our winners from years 3, 4, 5 and 6 😊

We would like to say a huge well done to each and every one of the children who took part in our competition. You are all super stars! β­πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Y4 Experience Christmas

Thank you to Reverend Debbie, Reverend Lisa and their team for inviting our Y4 to join them for Experience Christmas at Holy Trinity Church. Staff and children had a lovely morning, learning about the Christmas story and taking part in a range of activities. Our Y4 children behaved beautifully and showed our school value of respect in Church. Well done everyone!

Year 4 French Display

Year 4 are really proud of their learning in French lessons with Madame Sohier.

Year 4 Las Posadas πŸŽ„πŸŒŸ

Last week in Year 4, we received our Las Posadas box. We know that this is a religious festival to celebrate Joseph and Mary’s journey from Bethlehem to Nazareth in search of a place for Baby Jesus to be born.

In Set 2, we made our very own peace chains and hung them up in the Year 3/4 block.

Christmas Writing Competition! βœπŸŽ„πŸŽ…

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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to introduce our new Christmas-themed writing competition! We’re on the lookout for imaginative pieces of writing that capture the magic of Christmas.

You’re free to express your creativity in any Christmas writing formβ€”whether it’s a story, poem, comic strip, diary entry, newspaper report, or anything else that sparks your fancy! Here are a few ideas to get you started:

  • Write a crime report about a mysterious ‘intruder’ on Christmas Eve.
  • Create a poem about Santa falling too sick to work on Christmas Eve.
  • Craft a story about Santa being mistaken for a burglar!

Give all entries to Miss Bibi or Mrs Branford by Monday, December 11th.

What’s even more exciting?

All entries will be compiled into a special book for the school and there are runner-up prizes to be won. We’ll select one outstanding piece from each year group as the winning entry.

So, what are you waiting for? Let the magical writing journey begin!

 

Y4 Electricity! πŸ’‘πŸ’‘πŸ’‘

As part of our Electricity unit, Year 4 have been using the circuit kits to experiment with different components of a circuit. Today, we learned all about the purpose of motors, buzzers and switches. We worked in small groups to make each of the circuits! 😊🌟

KS2 Spelling Bees! 🐝

This week, we held our very first Spelling Bee for Years 3/ 4 and for Years 5/6.

We were blown away by the brilliant spelling from all of the children who participated and also by how brave they were! Well done everyone! ⭐⭐⭐

Also, a big well done to the children who were part of the audience; you showed our school value of respect and did a fantastic job of supporting your peers! πŸ₯°

Here are our winners from the Year 5/6 Spelling Bee πŸ™‚