Thank you to the school council and Mrs Rae for organising an amazing Monster Ball. The children had a great time.
No Pens Day!Â
We are taking part in No Pens Day! On Wednesday 27th November, All Souls is excited to be joining many other schools around the UK for a chatty day of fun and fundraising. This is where we need your help!Â
As part of No Pens Day, we are asking each pupil to bring an item of their choosing and tell their peers about it as part of the biggest-ever show and tell! This will give your child a chance to practise their communication skills, listen and talk to others in their class about something that matters to them. Here are some ideas to help your child prepare
- Point out some topics to help children connect with what they could talk about. For example: âYou know a lot about space. Perhaps you could do a space-themed show and tell?âÂ
- Examples â Give your children lots of ideas for what they might like to bring in or talk about. An object from home, a photograph or a favourite outfit! This could be about imaginary ideas as well. Perhaps they’d like to draw a picture to show â or chat about a favourite character, unicorn or sea monster.
- Name some people or places your children could tell the class about. For older children this could be someone inspirational theyâve learnt about at school. Their object could be a figure, a book, a postcard or a map.
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We are also asking each pupil to bring in ÂŁ1 for the childrenâs charity Speech and Language UK. These vital funds will help raise awareness about the 1 in 5 children in the UK with speech and language challenges.  You can either give ÂŁ1 to your child to bring in or clickâŻhereâŻto make a donation online. (Donât forget to write our school in the donation message!) You can also donate by scanning this QR code:Â
 Together, we can give every child struggling with talking and understanding words the skills they need to face the future with confidence.Â
Thank you for your continued support. Â
Reception have had a fantastic week learning all about Autumn. We began with an autumn walk around our school grounds. We loved exploring the leaves and trying to catch them as they fell! We enjoyed turning them into creatures when they had dried out. We used oil pastels to make some autumn leaves and have worked hard on some autumnal drawings. We also used cardboard tubes to make our own autumn trees too.
Year 6 were enthused with their recent writing unit in English as they were tasked with twisting a traditional tale into a story their prayer friends in Reception would enjoy. Today, they had the pleasure of sharing their stories with one another, introducing them to The Three Little Wolves, Innocent Locks, Little Rotten Riding Hood and many more interesting characters and stories – including dinosaurs and unicorns!
Once again, Reception were the perfect audience, listening with respect, showcasing their enjoyment and were able to recall what happened in their prayer friend’s story!
What a fantastic way to start a Wednesday!
This week Reception began our learning based on the book ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. We had great fun acting out the story and have been busy making our own rockets out of junk modelling!
We want to say a big thank you to our PTA. We now have a set of class reader books for each class which will make sure a range of books are read to the children over their time at All Souls. We will be hosting a book fair in the new year and following this, we hope to be able to add to the Nursery, Reception and Year 1 class reader sets .
It’s been all about repeated patterns this week in Reception! We have made them in so many different ways within our play. Our favourite was making a repeated pattern fruit skewer!
In RE this week, Year 6 were tasked with showing their understanding of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel by retelling the story and its important messages to their prayer friends.
The children in Year 6 worked hard to do this in a way that made sense to their prayer friends and left them with some very important messages to go forth with which Reception were able to articulate very well!
Well done, Year 6 and Reception!
In RE, Reception have begun to learn about the Creation story. This week, we all made our own collage world using tissue paper which are now proudly displayed in our prayer area.
We loved telling Reception about our monsters that we have created. We read them our brilliant work and they listened very well. Thank you Reception for coming to see our amazing work.
