Celebrations 26.2.2016

First week back but we have celebrations to catch up on from previous weeks.

Year 5's who represented the school at BISI Badminton - Lily, Hollie, 

Isabelle, Hannah, Matthew and Jasper.  

They were all excellent ambassadors for the school!

Children from Class 1 attended the Multi-skills festival at Priory Ruskin - once again they were brilliant ambassadors for the school!  Olivia, India, Tasha, Theo, Millie-June, Eva, Eliza, Brooke W, BrookeA and Orla.

Small school's Swim Gala winners (or second) of their heats - Luca, Matthew, 

Jasper, Rory, Alice and Hollie.  

Ellen got a separate award for overcoming her fear and taking part in her race!

Class 1 Special Bears - Millie-June for working more independently - in preparation for Class 2!  Harry for improved maths work and India for good maths work.

Luca (Y4) for fabulous writing on volcanoes, Like for an excellent poem - Dave the Brave, Adam for super writing and Riley for better presentation in his spelling folder.   

Class 2 - Isabelle for compassion, William for good doubling in maths and 

Sasha for quick and accurate doubling in maths.

Thank you everyone - another good week!

Sarah Outen

We have (as a school) been following the adventures of explorer Sarah Outen.  Sarah rowed, cycled and kyaked around the world and this resulted in our Year 6 children going to London in December to welcome her back.  Last year we had a satellite phone call from her in one of our assemblies and several children emailed her with questions and were replied to.

Sarah visited us today and because we the last school of the morning we got to listen and ask questions of her for 40 minutes - other schools got 15 minutes.

She told us why and how she decided to explore, the people she met along the way and experiences she had - all accompanied by pictures. 

Her talk was inspirational - 'Just do it' and I (once again had tears in my eyes).

Every child in the school was totally absorbed for all the time - even the reception children.

We have paid for the Y6 children (who greeted her back in December) to attend an evening with Sarah at Walton Girls' High School on Monday 29th February.  Several other children were also inspired by her talk and will also attend.

Whole school - celebrating with Sarah

Sarah (on her knees) talking to the reception children

Sarah beginning her question and answer session

Sarah with one of the people she met on her travels who gave up 5 weeks to travel from where he lived (on a bike) to Bejing - some 4000 kilometres!

Thank you Sarah!

Craze of the week is back!

During lunchtimes we run 'Craze of the week' during which we encourage children to try new playground games - led by Mrs Barnes.  This week children have been trying to skip around a ball attached to their ankle - I don't know the proper name for this!

Abigail Y2 - doing really well

Holly Y3 - I need to work on keeping it on my ankle - it's not so easy!

Abigail - practising to get it perfect!

Watch this space for more news about Craze of the week!

Celebrations 29.1.2016

Lots more to celebrate this week!

Kayley Y5  for super attitude and partner work - showing our school values and Alex Y4 for Alex for super effort on Big Write

Elsie Y3 for a superb piece of report writing which demonstrated all she had been taught - brilliant listening and applying Elsie!

Front - Holly Y3 and Katelyn Y4 for working out how to make a Sphinx net when everyone else struggled - even Mrs Kearsley! Tillie Y4 for great work in maths 

Back - Alice Y4 for trying hard generally

George YR for good writing , Eliza Y1 for good work in maths, 

Ryan YR for trying hard in phonics and maths

Brooke and Brooke (both Y2) for being brilliant role models to everyone else

Another great week!

KS2 visit to Lincoln University - Carol Anne Duffy

We were very privileged on Thursday to be able to attend Lincoln University to hear Dame Carol Anne Duffy perform (children's laureate).  We expected her to read her latest book 'Princesses' Blankets' and everyone was blown away by the performance.  She didn't just read the book she had a musician supporting her on the recorder and other 'easy' instruments'.

All the children (and staff!) were fascinated by the whole experience.  Mrs Chadwick's blog explains better than I can because I wasn't able to attend (much to my disappointment:)

I cannot add any photos to this blog BUT please visit Mrs Chadwick's blog (Class 3) to view these.

Celebrations 22.1.2016

Busy, busy!

Class 2  - Lexi Y3 for beautiful solo singing during our music lesson and George Y4 for excellent work in maths on time

Gymnastic certificates - front row - Kara (Y1), Theo (Y2) and Brooke (Y2) - all for achieving Level 5.  Back Row - Alex (Y4) for achieving level 5, 6 and 7 and Lexi (Y3) for achieving level 5 - thanks everyone for working hard on this and thanks to Mrs James for coaching them!

Class 3 Dojo (reward points) winners for term 2.  Some new names in the winners which is great because it means they are all trying hard.

Front row (right to left) Tilly 1st, Elise 2nd, Rory 3rd, Arthur 4th, 

Celebrations 15.1.2016

Another good week - can't believe we've been back for two weeks already!

Class 1 special bear certificates

Millie-June Y2 for improve attitude to learning, Orla Y2 for good sight word spellings, Daniel Y1 for good sight word spelling, India Y2 for improved writing, Olivia Y1 and Kara Y1 for improved writing - well done all of you!

Sasha Y3 for achieving his Grade 1 with merit in his drumming exam

Ellen Y5 for great participation in our writing on Superheroes and Rueben Y5 for excellent participation in our work on time in maths

Jacob and Tyler Y6, Luke, Hannah, Riley, Hollie and Lily all Y5 - for taking part in the Boccia and Kurling festival run by our school sports partnership.  

It was really enjoyable and we are looking at buying some of this new equipment - see Mrs Chadwick's PE blog for more information.