A huge well done to our hard working Year 6s who have completed their SATs this week. And more excitingly, the LEAVERS HOODIES have arrived!
With a big chocolate cake to celebrate, the Year 6s are looking very grown up all of a sudden. We are very proud of you all for your perseverance and determination this week.
This week we had a super time commemorating and celebrating VE Day 80 and on the day itself we came to school dressed in red, white and blue or in 1940’s style clothing. Mrs Bradshaw looked particularly fabulous in her suit! At 9am we joined in with the National Proclamation marking the anniversary. This was read for us by John Gittins with Eva playing the part of the village crier with an excellent “oyez, oyez, oyez!” Later in the day we came back out onto the field to listen to the pealing of the church bells. In our classes we carried out activities to help us understand the significance of the day in history and to our lives today.
At lunchtime we enjoyed a fish and chip picnic and we even found time to fit our annual fun run in to the day! We really enjoyed the ice pops and biscuits from the Friends after all the running and were very pleased with our medals to recognise our efforts. Thank you Friends!
In DT this term, Owls have been tasked with making 3-D structures that are functional, appealing and fit for purpose (bird hides). They have taken to this excellently and we’re excited to see how they turn out!
Today we continued to our exploration of the Easter story to answer the big question ‘Why do Christians put a cross in an Easter garden?’ We created our own Easter gardens, talking about the representation of each part and how this helps Christians to remember what happened at the very first Easter.
We were very proud of our gardens when we had finished.
This week in Hedgehogs we have been learning about Easter around the world, and about the tradition of decorating eggs.
For homework this week, I would like you to decorate a hard-boiled egg and bring it in next Friday for us to show the rest of the school our cracking creations!
How egg-citing can you make your design?
There will be prizes for the most eggs-traordinary!
This Thursday morning, owls visited Ruyton Church for an ‘Experience Easter’ workshop delivered by church volunteers and helpers which focused on the big themes of ‘Holy Week’ such as resurrection and the servant king. They were commended by everyone for awesome listening and participation in the work stations. Well done Owls!
On Monday afternoon this week, Owls read their banded books to the children from Rabbits and then vice versa. Everyone really enjoyed this exciting end to the day.
Yesterday, Owls (along with dragonflies) went a fantastic trip to Llangollen where we participated in several activities that explained how and why the aqueduct was built. Alongside this, we completed some surveys and sketches that focused on the human and physical geography of the area. It was an amazing day and the children were brilliant!
We’ve had a very busy and exciting day in Hedgehogs today. We have found out about why we are raising money for Comic Relief. We learned about the history of the red nose and how it changes before designing and making our own with playdough. We also made tasty red nose biscuits and played with red oobleck. We found it fascinating to watch the way it changed when we were using it.
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