We loved wearing our Christmas jumpers and having a delicious Christmas dinner.
Thank you to all of our friends and family for joining in our Advent Faith workshop in Y6 today. Thank you to all the children who led us in prayer and reminded us of the true meaning of this season of Advent. We were blown away with the creativity shown in creating your own Advent wreaths!
During the season of Advent, each class will be holding a ‘Faith Workshop’ where parents and carers will be invited into school to join their child in prayer and complete an Advent themed activity together.
Year 6′s Advent Workshop will take place on Friday 1st December at 1.30pm in the school hall where we will gather together in prayer, song and reflection. Our workshop will provide the opportunity for every child to make an Advent wreath with their loved one to take home and use as a lovely way to pause, reflect and remind ourselves of the true meaning of the lead up to Christmas during this busy festive season.
We are very much looking forward to being able to share this experience with you. So that we can prepare for the correct number of people, please complete the following form to indicate whether an adult will be able to attend for your child and, if so, who. Please therefore complete the following even if you are unable to attend and do not worry a school adult will be there to support any children whose adult is unable to be there.
Booking form: https://forms.gle/C5Xhbg4jCacS1DHeA
Please note, that due to the purchasing of resources needed for the event, including the wreath base and candles, there will be a charge of £6.10 which can be made payable on our school’s payment system, School Gateway shortly. If you have the time and opportunity to go for a nice walk together between now and then, any foliage etc will be greatly received!
Thank you.
Mrs Hartwell
Antibullying Week 2023!
As part of ‘Odd Socks Day 2023’ the Year 2 children attended a whole school assembly.
Back in class they enjoyed listening to the important messages of anti bullying, through listening to ‘Andy and the Odd Socks’ band singing ‘Make some Noise!’ joining in with the song/rap reinforcing the message.
They then discussed ‘kindness’ and what this looks like and feels like for them. Finally they designed their own odd socks and added a kindness related word!
This half term, in art, Year 5 are exploring typography.
We first learnt about typography and looked at different artists, such as Louise Fili.
Then we began experimenting creating different words out of different mediums – such as irregular shapes and materials found in forest school.
See if you can work out what our creations say…
Anti-Bullying Week 2023 is coordinated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. This year it has the theme ‘Make A Noise About Bullying’ and will take place from Monday 13th to Friday 17th November. The week kicked off with Odd Socks Day, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.
Year 3 were shocked to find how much sugar and fat is in the food we eat daily. We can fun comparing different foods. Then we created the prefect balanced diet day, which included a little bit of chocolate.
The children really enjoyed exploring Fr Paul’s garden in search of small creatures and mini beasts. This was our hook lesson getting excited about creating some interesting creatures to write our Non-Chronological Reports. We can’t wait to invite Fr Paul into school to read our final reports!
The sun shone brightly for us which was brilliant after such a soggy weekend! We even popped into the prayer garden to say a prayer of thanks.
As part of our Geography unit: ‘Journeys and Trade’; Year 6 visited the local allotments to learn about how our food is grown and the journey it takes to get to our plates. We were shown around the allotments by local allotment owners Mr Kirrane and Mr Johnson and we learnt about sowing, composting, fertilising, growing and storing vegetables. We also learnt about the journey that our fruit and vegetables take thereafter, when they are sold to Coventry Market and arrive on our plate.
We saw lots of home-grown beetroot, parsnips, onions and potatoes and we also picked fresh apples and blackberries from the trees. Mr Kirrane gave us all our own potato to take home and we have created potato characters which we will be using as inspiration for writing our diary entries in next week’s lesson.
Thank you for showing us around your allotments Mr Kirrane and Mr Johnson and for teaching us so much about locally grown produce! We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon with you!
Year 2 really enjoyed working with a partner, taking turns to read and listen to each other. So lovely to see such super team work!
