Thursday, 31 May 2012

Our 'allotment'

We only have a small space for this but our gardening club, run by Mrs Sutcliffe, Mrs Clarke and Mrs Ballaam do a good job in growing food.  We currently have strawberries, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, lettuce and beans on the go.  Our gardening club also plant our borders around the school.  We always needs help and plants - talk to Mrs Sutcliffe if you can help us!

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Our new Woodland Hut

The whole school had a fabulous day last week building our new Woodland Hut.  We worked in teams and everyone had a go at weaving the wood and stripping the wood of barkThe 'hut' is now complete and the children love it!  The next project will be a tunnel - when we've saved up enough money.

Monday, 28 May 2012

Living & Learning Like a Champion

Our latest awards are:
Emma Cowling, Ella Burtt, Holly Brown, George Hatton, Anthony Bravo, James Walton, Katie Knott, Sophie Robertson and Amelia Peters.  A good mix of bronze and silver awards!  Fabulous!!

Class 2 - where are your logs?

Saturday, 19 May 2012

Weekly certificate winners

Our certificate winners this week were Veranika Bravo and Ben Hollingsworth from Class 2 - both showed initiative in improving their own learning!  Emma Cowling, Amelia Peters, Katie Knott, Pippa Jessop and Katie Lamb were all winners in Class 3 - for excellent work on their Titantic topic.  In class 1 the winners were Riley Pryce - for being a good table monitor and excellent right hand person to Mrs Sutcliffe and Holly Starbuck for working hard in finding differences in maths.  Well done to all of you!

Raffle Reward winners

We have been awarding raffle tickets to chikldren who use good manners and pick up litter.  Our first winners were drawn in our Celebrtions assembly on Friday and the winners were Hannah Walker in Class 1, Harry Howgill in Class 2 and Katie Knott in Class 3.  Well done to all of you!

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Whole school testing week

This week is whole school testing week.  Our aim is to make the week as unstressful as possible for the children, all we want them to do is to try their very best and show us what they have learnt.

Year 5 will be based in class 2 this week.  As well as testing we will take as many opportunities as we can to get outside and do PE (weather permitting!).  Years 3, 4 and 5 also have a mini project to complete on Mini-Beasts.

The Olympic Value for the next fortnight is Excellence: to give one's best, on the field of play or in life.  It is not only about winning but also about participating,making  a commitment to progress against personal goals, striving to be and to do our best in our daily lives.  Perfect for this next week!!!

We are having a major drive on the use of good manners and picking up/not throwing litter.  Both these need work on at the moment. Your child may tell you about our new raffle ticket system - if they haven't - please ask them!

Children's Olympic torch to Allington

On Tuesday Mrs Chadwick and the 3 sports young ambassadors, George Hatton, Ella Burtt and James Walton, passed on the children's Olympic torch to Allington school.  They took with them a 'Friendship Chain' that had been made by Class 3 as part of our work on the Olympic values.  All 3 spoke clearly and loudly and were excellent ambassadors for Marston Thorold's school!