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A Twinkly Nativity

21st December 2023Madeleine Corkerry

A huge congratulations to the ‘all star’ cast of the Twinkly Nativity who provided audiences with 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ performances of their nativity performances!

We are so proud of the children in Year 1 and 2 for their nativity performances, they were all shining stars! It was a pleasure to see the children’s confidence grow from first run through to the final performances. They worked hard to learn the Makaton signs to accompany the songs throughout the play. We spoke about those that use Makaton and how this benefits their lives.

Well done Year 1 and Year 2!

Cinematastic!

17th November 2023Dionne Alford

Year 1 and 2 had a great time at the flicks!

The children walked beautifully ALL the way to the Skydome.

We stopped off for lunch just before the film. The children were very well behaved and were complemented by the Skydome staff on their tidying up after lunch and lining up in the corridors.

We all loved the film and all super stars during the film too!

Wellbeing and Emotions in Year 2

8th November 2023Dionne Alford

Coventry Compass provided All Souls with an assembly and activities to support a better understanding around emotions and how they might feel and look for different people. That all emotions and feelings are ok as long as we recognise them and know how to manage them. The message was that we all go through a range of emotions each day and manage these really well.

The children enjoyed making ’emotion frieze frames’ and their partners had to guess how they were feeling. This was a great way to reinforce that feelings may look similar but feel different.

Gerald the giraffe!

8th November 2023Dionne Alford

‘Gerald the giraffe’ thoroughly enjoyed supporting the children in writing their character descriptions. He is a very shy and clumsy giraffe called Gerald from the book Giraffes can’t Dance by Giles Andreae.

They wrote their character descriptions and published them onto fancy paper with additional giraffe body parts to enhance them further! Year 6 really enjoyed sharing and really made the Year 2 children feel proud of their work. Great job All Souls children!

Celebrating the Feast of St. Francis in Year 2

10th October 2023Dionne Alford

Year 2 really enjoyed all of the activities celebrating our class Saint.

They sang St Francis’ prayer together, wrote prayers with a nature theme, built churches, made bird feeders and created art in nature – Andy Goldsworthy style.
The children enjoyed leading a prayer service to bless animals and their own pets and sharing their own personal prayers.

Virtual Author Visit

29th September 2023Mrs J Hartwell

We loved our virtual author visit from the hilarious Maz Evans today, author of ‘Who Let The Gods Out’.

She gave us a sneaky peek at her new book ‘Oh Maya Gods’

and told us all about the writing process, how editing is arguably one of the most important parts!

Thank you for the inspiration (and the giggles!) Maz.

We LOVE Forest School!

20th September 2023Mrs J Hartwell

VIP Reader

16th September 2023Mrs J Hartwell

Year 6 welcomed another ‘VIP Reader‘ into our classroom this week… Roisin McCourt from Free Radio and it is fair to say the children (and adults!) LOVED it!

Roisin chose to read us her children’s favourite book, ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’, talked to us about her role on the radio, shared some of this week’s favourite moments and answered the (1,000,001) questions we threw her way.

Thank you, Roisin!

*If you are interested in being a VIP Reader for us, please email me: [email protected]

VIP Reader

9th September 2023Mrs J Hartwell

Year 6 were very excited to welcome their first VIP reader, Caz Frear, into our classroom today.

Caz Frear is a British mystery fiction novelist and chose to share with us a snippet about the Great Train Robbery from ‘The Crime Book’ by Peter James.

Thank you, Cazz!

*If anyone would like to share a snippet of their favourite book with our lovely Year 6 class one Friday afternoon, please email me to arrange [email protected]

International Literacy Day 2023

8th September 2023Mrs J Hartwell

Today we celebrated International Literacy Day to highlight the importance of literacy and raise awareness for education as a human right.

We took a moment to consider how grateful we are to have our wonderful school and teachers to help us to learn to read and write before taking our class book outside and reading together on the field to share this wonderful gift together.