We are very proud to present the Dragonfly Christmas Poetry Performance. We hope you enjoy – merry Christmas!
School News
Hedgehog & Nursery Nativity 2020! 🎄
We are very proud to present this year’s Christmas Nativity by Hedgehog Class and Nursery. We wish all the families and friends of our school a very merry Christmas!
Christmas Tree competition winners
We are pleased to share with you the winners of our Friends Of St John The Baptist Primary School ‘Christmas tree’ competition.
Children were asked to create something special at home on the theme of a Christmas tree, and we received lots of wonderful entries.
Our school Fun and Games Committee, which is made up of children from Year 2 to Year 6, chose the winners (names and faces had been removed from entries) and we are thrilled to share the deserving winners below.
Well done and thank you to everyone who entered!
Mya – Year 6
Liam – Year 5
George – Year 4
Amber – Year 3
Percy – Year 2
Caitlyn – Year 1
Phoebe – Reception
Hedgehogs Home Learning – Monday 14th December
🎄 Good Morning Hedgehogs at home! 🎄
We’ve only got one week left in school before we start our Christmas holidays, so all your home learning this week has a Christmassy theme! 🎅Â
Phonics:
Have a go at playing this Christmas tree phonics game. Look carefully at the words and pictures on the baubles. Place each bauble onto the Christmas tree that shows the matching letter sound.
Maths:
Using all that you have learned in Maths this term, complete this Christmas Maths Booklet.
English:
Think about the tricky words you have been learning this term. Have a go at completing this Tricky words booklet.
Christmas Crafts:
In class today we are going to be making Christmas cards. We liked the look of these ones. Don’t worry if you don’t have pom poms or googley eyes, you can use paint or a pen and draw them on instead.
You can follow the step by step video:Â https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/christmas-handprint-cards/?jwsource=cl
I hope you have a good day!
Miss Horton 🙂
Hedgehog wreath making
Some of the children in Hedgehog class enjoyed making a Christmas wreath today.
We made one wreath from tinsel and another with foliage. They were easy to do (we wound the tinsel or willow/foliage) around the frame and ta-da!
If you would like to make one with your child at home, please let us know and we will send home the metal ring that you will need to get going. Simply follow our picture instructions or get creative and design your own. We’d love to see photos of the finished results.
Friends of School ‘Christmas tree’ competition
Thank you to everyone who entered our ‘Friends of School’ Christmas tree competition.
We had lots of wonderful entries from children who have made a Christmas tree in so many different ways. We were very impressed!
The photos of the entries are in the windows at the front of school if you’d like to see them, but here they are if you are unable to get to school to see them. Please note that entries with children’s faces on are not displayed in the windows.
There is a winner from each class, chosen by the children on our Fun and Games Council. The judges didn’t know who each entry belonged to as we removed the children’s faces and names from their entries! All of the winners will be announced in worship by Mrs Ball on Monday next week.
On behalf of The Friends Of St John the Baptist Primary School, thank you to everyone who has taken part.
Hedgehogs at home – 10th and 11th December 2020
Hello Hedgehogs
We have a busy week at school again, and the children are all very excited about Christmas now , as I’m sure you are too!
Please find your tasks and activities for the next two days below. If you have any questions please get in touch.
Thank you
Mrs Johnson
English
We will be writing our own acrostic poems about Christmas, just like the one below. Can you write one too? Decorate your paper with the things you have included in your poem.
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The children are sharing the story of Baboushka (a Russian Christmas story) this week. Look at the story online and retell the story in your book, drawing pictures to show what happened alongside your writing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrwVMVCEiU
Maths
Over the next two days we are revisiting our work from earlier this term on shape. Please find the activity sheets to use below.
Music
We are learning some traditional Christmas Carols for our Christingle next week. If you would like to learn them too, you can find the video’s to song along to here…
Little donkey –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQsK44zAN_s
Away in a manger –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-VAke_WpwM
Hark the herald angels sing –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyXucFzLXwA
O Little town of Bethlehem –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSxlavvAek&vl=en
Silent Night –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmioEzAZCVc
We wish you a merry Christmas –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C41q5YLnF10
In the bleak midwinter –Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEYVN6Qj6w
Phonics
Please watch the video for the day here  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/videos
Spelling
All of the words this week are something to do with Christmas! CAN 10.12.20
Reading
Please choose one of these lovely stories to share https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=&level_select=book+band+3%3A+yellow&book_type=&series=#
Hedgehog spellings – 10th December
Hello Hedgehogs
All of the words on your spelling lists this week are about Christmas.
I hope you enjoy learning to spell them. They might come in useful over the next few weeks!
CAN group CAN 10.12.20
SHOULD group SHOULD 10.12.20
COULD group COULD 10.12.20
The blank Look cover write check sheet might be useful to help you practice too.
Congratulations Matthew
Congratulations to Matthew in Owl Class for being nominated and then selected for pupil of the month for November by his Your Space Music trumpet teacher Chris. Here is what Matthew’s teacher said about him:
‘A huge nomination for Matthew to be pupil of the month! He works so hard, by far one of my best students and his rate of improvement has been fantastic. I call him my little scale demon!  A comfortable merit on his first grade exam is very much deserved.’
Fantastic news Matthew and very well-deserved. Enjoy spending your prize voucher – I think I can guess what on!
