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The Big Bang Show

By Mrs J Hartwell5th March 2020

Year 5 and Year 6 are heading to The Big Bang Fair at the NEC on Wednesday 11th March 2020 as part of BRITISH SCIENCE WEEK!

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The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people in the UK. It is an award-winning combination of exciting theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits and careers information from STEM professionals.

The Fair gives young people the chance to hear from inspiring engineers and scientists from some of the UK’s biggest companies and find out about the opportunities available in STEM. Visitors can join us to discover virtual reality, medicine, marine biology, film and TV, space exploration, explosive chemistry, crime-solving, robots, computer coding, microscopic bugs, giant trucks and more.

Details

We are asking children to be in the school hall by no later than 8.30am so that we can make the most out of our morning. We will be leaving school soon after to arrive at Canley station in time for our train direct to the NEC. We will spend a couple of hours exploring the show before heading back on the train and walking back to school in time for lunch!

Children are to come dressed in their tracksuits with suitable footwear and a waterproof coat. They should also bring with them a water bottle and a healthy snack to keep them going until lunch.

Although the science fair is free, there will be a small charge for transport at £ per child. Please see SIMS Pay to provide consent and make payment.

We are sure this will be a worthwhile and exciting opportunity for both classes and look forward to seeing what’s going on at The Big Bang!

World Book Day 2020

By Mrs J Hartwell4th March 2020

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We are looking forward to seeing you all dressed up as your favourite character or in your bedtime story pyjamas!

Remember to bring in a book you would like to donate to take part in our All Souls’ Book Swap.

Our library is already full with lots of AMAZING reads ready to be swapped and enjoyed!

Mrs Hartwell also has a special box of books ready to give away as prizes for our competition winners!

Book Swap

By Mrs J Hartwell3rd March 2020

All Souls’ Book Swap!

This year, we would like to get an ‘All Souls’ Book Swap’ up and running!

We will be launching this across the school this Thursday 5th March as part of World Book Day. The theme this year is to ‘Share a story’. We think this would be a great new way for children to find a great book to read, to recycle books they’ve finished with so that others can share in their story and to encourage reading for pleasure across the school.

We are asking for children to bring one book into school with them on World Book Day that they would like to swap during their viist to the Book Swap Library. We will then open the library back up once a month for children to continue swapping and sharing their stories throughout the year.

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Thank you to all who have donated so many books already to give our Book Swap Library a much needed boost!

Sharing stories and pancakes!

By Mrs J Hartwell1st March 2020

Year 6 and Reception had the perfect end to a very busy half term as they shared in stories and pancakes!

Year 6 have been working really hard to write their own traditional tales for their prayer friends and were super excited to share them. Reception listened beautifully and could answer lots of questions about their stories.We then ended the afternoon by picking from a variety of toppings and enjoying some yummy pancakes ahead of Shrove Tuesday!

… and don’t forget the washing up!

Year 2’s Zimbabwean Assembly

By Mrs J Hartwell21st February 2020

Well done to all of the children (and staff!) in Year 2 for showing off all they had learnt about Zimbabwe! It was great to listen to how their culture differs but equally how we also share similairites. Brought to life with our own Ant and Dec and bushtucker trials, we were truly entertained! Well done, Year 2!

Thank you also to all of oyuyr families and friends who attended. As always, your support is greatly appreciated.

World Book Day

By Mrs J Hartwell20th February 2020

Thursday 5th March is World Book Day; a day to help to foster a love of reading in our children. To celebrate this day at All Souls’, we have decided to have a dress up and activity day. Children are invited to dress up as a book character or in their pyamas for the day (teaching staff will also be dressing up!). During the course of the day, children will take part in a variety of activities both in their classrooms and across school.

Our annual competition this year will take place in children’s classrooms. A winner for each phase will be picked and awarded with a prize!

From Wednesday 18th – 25th March we are holding a Scholastic Book Fair, in the school hall, where children and their families can browse and purchase books from £2.99. Children will also have been given a £1.00 Book Token to spend. Once we have made £300 worth of sales, school can access at least 25% of the amount to spend on books for our class reading areas. We hope that you will support this venture.

This year, we would like to get up and running an ‘All Souls’ Book Swap’, a new way for children to find a great book to read, to recycle books they’ve finished with and to encourage reading for pleasure. More details of this will follow soon but to help us get it up and running,we would appreciate any book donations (age 3 – 11years).

Thank you for your continuing support.

Mrs J Hartwell

British Science Week

By Mrs J Hartwell20th February 2020

We will be celebrating British Science Week from the 9th – 13th March 2020.

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British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths. The theme this year is ‘Our Diverse Planet’.

To celebrate, throughout the week, we will be doing lots of exploration around the theme of journeys and the Science all around us which will involve a whole school carousel of investigations and maybe even some animals to meet

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On Friday 13th March, we are inviting children to come into school dressed as a famous or crazy Scientist for a £1donation to go towards our Science curriculum.

Please keep checking the blog to find out what we get up to!

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The Birdman

By Mrs J Hartwell20th February 2020

We had the BEST Wednesday this week as we were lucky enough to receive a visit from Alan, Cybil, Billy, Alaska & Sparky. We absolutely loved meeting them all and learned so much information, not only about the birds but also how we can help to look out for our planet.