DARE

Year 5 and 6 (and 2 Y4's) have been taking part in DARE - Drugs, Alcohol and Resistance Education dor the last 10 weeks.  This has been delivered by Dare Officer Colin (a retired police officer).

Today was their graduation day and we held an assembly to celebrate this and lots of parents attended.  The graduates carried out role plays to explain bullying, peer-pressure, use of alcohol and drugs.  Four children read out their DARE reports - Jessamy, Vincent, Conor and Sophie and all four were presented with a calculator by Dare Officer Colin.  Special mention for Jessamy and Vincent for their reports being the best.  Two other graduates - Jamie and William - were also awarded calculators for their effort (William) and helping others with their reports (Jamie).

The school presented everyone with a certificate, a wristband and a stationery set.  The four DARE reports will be put onto the blog as soon as the children give them to me.

Year Six House Captains

Announcements made in assembly today.

House Captains - Veranika Bravo, Georgie Burns, Ben Hollingsworth, Finn Ogden,

 

Vice Captains, Megan Dixon-Booth, Chloe Johnson, Andrew Lamb, Daniel Tattersall.

 

All voted for by the children and the staff based on their speeches to the whole school.

 

Some happy year 6's but what was really special is that they remembered everyone who hadn't been successful and comforted them.

Whole School Photo - Children In Need

 

Good day to play out!

Children In Need

We always have a great Children in Need day with the focus being on the whole school working together!

 

Reception (Anna), Y4 (Joseph) and Y5 (Vincent and Leon) working together on our whole school copper trail - cross curricular maths!

 

 

Part of our copper trail!

 

 

Foundation stage girls (Abigail, Anna and Brooke) - their first ever Children In Need day!  Love their PJs!

 



Displays

We are working hard on our learning environment as part of our school improvement plan and I thought I would show you some of the lovely displays we have in school.

 

Progression in writing throughout the school

 

 

We Will Remember Them

 

 

Harvest Celebrations

 

 

Isle of Struay - to support learning in Class 1

 

 

Class 1 flower hanging

 

 

Monet's Waterlillies

 

 

The Tunnel

 

 

Slimy Sandwiches!  Our variation on Roald Dahl's work!

 

We are really enjoying working on our displays and thank you

to all the staff for working very hard on these!

 

 

 

 

 



Celebrations Winners 8.11.2013

Another week gone by!

 

George (Y2) for great descriptive writing, Jess (Y5) for 28 dojo points last term, Megan (Y5) for using her maths toolkit and working hard at maths, Chloe T (Y6) for using her writers toolkit and improving her sentences, Finn (Y6) for 27 dojo points last term, Alex (Y2) for excelling maths, Elise (Y3) for great desciptive writing and Daniel (Y1) for working hard at using finger spaces in his writing - whew - what a lot!!!

 

 

Raffle ticket winners - Joseph (Y4) for fixing a string to Mrs Kearsley's new whistle, Holly-Anne (Y1) for always being ready and Jamie (Y6) for dojo points.  I will go shopping to refill my prize box - I promise!



Book Fair

We held our book fair before half term and we raised a phenominal amount of £576 which has given us £300 worth of books for the school - the best ever!  Thank you everyone for supporting us in this and thanks also to the parents who ran it for us!

Looking and deciding!

 

 

It's good to have time to explore!

 

 

What do you think about this one?

 



Celebrations 1st November 2013

 

We had such a lot to celebrate this week!  The children have come back to school totally settled in their new classes and new routines and the learning now begins in earnest.

 

 

Class 1 Special Bears - Lucy, Sasha and Lexi - all for super work on their sight words and Sasha on his spellings as well!

 

 

Class 2 - Rory, Kayley, Elise and Jake.  Rory and Kayley for working really hard on their assessed piece of writing, Elise for getting 100% in all her spelling results for Autumn term 1 and Jake for working really hard at joining in our class discussions - well done all of you!

 

 

Leon - for teaching himself how to play 'When the Saints' on the trumpet.  See Class 3 Blog for more information!

 

 

Class 3 - Dojo point winners.  Georgie, Sophie, Daniel, Andrew, Veranika, Conor, Leon, William,Thomas, Isabella and Amy.  Georgie was was the leader with 39 points, Veranika second with 38 points and Isabella third with 33 points.

 

 

Raffle ticket winners - Isabella and Amy - Class 3, Joshua - Class 2 and Isabelle - Class 1.  All for doing something helpful and out of the ordinary!

 

What a lovely start to the new term!

 





Spirited Arts Competition

10 children (with the help of Mrs Ballaam) entered the above competition in July 2013.  We entered the 'Windows on the Soul' category and all the children received a certificate for entering.  The judges also stated in their feedback: "we loved some of the more unusual entries, including a whole school entry where the village community created a series of stained glass windows" - that was us!!!

 

Congratulations to all the children who entered and thank you Mrs Ballaam for your hard work!

Gracie, Alice, George, Maddie, Ben, Dean, Annie, Mathilda, Elsie and Sophie.

 

We will enter again next year as a whole school and we have done a deal that we will try and win!