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Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 10:11am
This week Reception had their Christmas Party.
They had fun dancing, playing musical statues, musical bumps and pass the parcel. Everyone took turns and clapped the winners.
After the games we had some party food and then we were visited by a very special guest- Father Christmas! He had brought presents for everyone because they had all been good this year.
Merry Christmas to you all!
School Council- Fund Raising For Elmer
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 10:02am
We have been busy raising money for Elmer by wearing our Christmas jumpers. it was so successful that one of the Brian House collection boxes is already full!
Watch this space for more exciting fund raising events!
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 8:44am
What an afternoon!! And a special guest appearance...
Year 6 - Textiles (felt mobile phone cases)
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 3:38pm
This week we have carried out a full journey of textiles. We began with discussing what we already knew about sewing and textiles and discussed key vocabulary. We then began looking at felt products that already exist and evaluating them. We then practised a range of stitches using Binca - we practised running stitch, back stitch, over stich and blanket stitch. After that, we planned and designed our own mobile phone cases using an agreed success criteria. To ensure our plan was effective, we created a prototype and then evaulated the product so that changes could be made if needed. Finally, we made our final product.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:48am
We really tested our tired Christmas brains this morning! Miss Crystal and Miss Bates were really proud of how well we worked together to solve this NRich problem.
Year 5 - Anglo-Saxon World Map
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:29am
As our journey into Anglo-Saxon Britain comes to an end, two pupils added a note about Anglo-Saxons to the school's world map. The tribes, who invaded Britain during the early medieval period, were called the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. They came from Denmark, Germany and Netherlands.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:22am
As we get closer to Christmas, pupils in year 5 were asked to use the art skills we learned earlier in the year to produce a Nativity image. Using pencils, pupils sketched images of the Nativity over an ancient map of the Holy Land.
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 10:37am
Today we completed a piece of Art to show an important aspect of the Christmas Nativity story. We recapped on the key events in the story, the order they happen and the important characters. We then chose which scene we wanted to use to inspire our own artwork and completed our own version of this.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 4:25pm
This afternoon Year 2 enjoyed their party. We did lots of dancing, ate delicious snack, played games including musical bumps, pass the parcel and pin the nose on Rudolph as well as having a special visit from the man himself- Santa!
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 4:23pm
This week, we have been busy using our sculpture skills to transform sticks into stick men. We thought about the pose we wanted our stick to be in and joined different sticks together to create our vision. Once our sticks were secure, we wrapped them in wool to create some clothes for it.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 2:36pm
Today Year 1 enjoyed our Christmas party. We played games, ate party food and even had a visit from Santa!!
Nursery Sing Christmas Sing Along
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 1:23pm
Nursery put on a very festive sing along in our garden this week. We invited our families and we had a lovely time singing the Christmas songs we have been busy learning. The children sang brillinatly and gave everyone some Christmas cheer!
School Council- Business Enterprise
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 12:02pm
At the School Council Meeting, Miss Moyes was our guest. She was here to talk about her recent enterprise visit to Highfurlong with some of the Key Stage 2 children. They explained how they had visited their shop and looked at the different items they have made to sell. Dayle explained that they had to calculate how much each item would cost to make and how much it would have to be sold at the Summer Fair in order to make a profit. The School Council were very excited and were keen to make cards, keyrings and sell mugs. We will be holding a further meeting to discuss our next steps.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 11:51am
There has been a lot of excitement in school this week, as as we took delivery of our Elmer sculpture.
The school council excitedly unwrapped it and it was taken to a safe place in school until it is ready to be decorated by the children.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 11:46am
Today we used our Art pathway skills (Storytelling through drawing) to draw and paint a scene from the Christmas Story. We used the medium of watercolours for the background and we used a stencil to cut out a silhouette for Mary, Joseph and the donkey.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 10:57am
Year 6 have produced some amazing packaging as part of their graphic design art journey. After studying graphic design and looking at existing packaging, we learned about typography and the different fonts used on products. We then created out own packaging using the original as inspiration. We used differnet techniques including collaging.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 9:22pm
Today we used Geoboards to create different 2-D shapes. We had to count the vertices and the sides to check that we had made the correct 2-D shape. We could see that, apart from squares, the same 2-D shapes can look very different but they must have shared properties - For example, all hexagons must have 6 vertices and 6 straight sides but these sides do not have to be an equal length.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 4:08pm
Year 5 have worked really hard in our French lessons this half term. They have been learning about animals and how to say what animals they do have and don't have in French. They have looked at masculine and feminine animals to help them to correctly form the sentences in French.
Date: 19th Dec 2023 @ 8:09am
Yesterday, our Key Stag 2 pupils took part in the School Games Boccia Competition. Boccia is a game designed for all, where pupils sit down and take turns throwing balls towards a target. To score points, you must get as close as you can to the jack (white ball), against an opposition and...they came 1st! Well done team!
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:19pm
Over the past week the children have been learning about the story off first Christmas and why Christmas is an important time of year for Christians. We have been retelling the story in our own words at the story telling. We have also been practicing our nativty and learning our songs. We enjoyed performing to the other children in school and can wait to perform for our families and friends.
"Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem" Isla
"There was no room so they went into a stable" Esmai
"Jesus was born in the stable" George
"The angels told the shepherds to go to see Jesus" Oliver
"The kings brought some presents; gold, frankinsence and myrrh"
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 11:58am
On Friday the children in Reception enjoyed taking parting in our interhouse competition organised by the Sports Council 'The Elf Olympics. The children worked in their house teams to complete a range of festive games including team relays races, a bauble and spoon race and dress the snowman. The children had a great time working together to earn point for their houses Chepstow, Bathurst, Rodwell and Elston. Well done everyone!
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 9:23am
Continuing with our focus on oracy this year, together we wrote our discussion guidelines. These are rules that we all agree we need to follow to be able to have good oracy skills. Afterwards, we introduced two new oracy groupings: Nest and Traverse. Previously, we have used the groupings Pair, Trio and Circle. The children were brilliant at remembering how the groupinga worked and what was expected of them whilst listening and speaking.
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 8:05am
Well done to Thearush who won the Boundary Primary 'Road Safety Awareness' poster competition. His prize? An afternoon with the PCSOs on Traffic Duty!
Nursery Christmas Stay and Play
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 2:02pm
We had a super time at our Christmas Stay and Play this week. It was lovely to see so many of our parents and they really enjoyed making Christmas crafts and snowman biscuits with their child.
Our Stay and Play sessions are a great opportunity for our parents o see what thier children have been doing at nursery and gain an insight in to the nursery day.
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 1:55pm
Nursery looked fabulous in their Christmas jumpers. We had everything from reindeers to santa and even a unicorn reindeer! The chidren loved designing their own jumpers and we had some super speaking and listening as they talked about their christmas jumpers.
