Class 3 have had another fantastic afternoon of drama with Susan from Creative Collaboratives. The children have used freeze framing techniques to portray Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. They worked in pairs to shoe Isis, the goddess of healing and then transitioned into Ka who represented the spirit of a person. Brilliant participation by everyone. Mrs Reddings even got to be an Egyptian pharaoh!
Class 3 had another fabulous afternoon doing Forest School! We made animal footprints in clay, threaded twig necklaces and used a flint and steel to create sparks. In the classroom, Ms Turner-Jones taught us how to tie different knots. We finished the afternoon off with apples roasted on the campfire and coated in cinnamon sugar!
Our enthusiastic Progressive Mini Leaders, enjoy leading sporting activities with our pupils. They are keen to promote exercise, teamwork and well-being, through fun games.
Year 5 and 6 pupils are learning to play floor hockey. They are developing this skills in stick handling, passing and receiving passes.
Our pupils displayed a lot of skills and talent!
Children in EYFS and KS1 enjoyed a visit from Tootie Fruitie this afternoon. The children become brave explorers in a tropical musical rainforest and make their way through the huge trees and leaves to the lion family’s annual big boogie bash! Children were invited to find all the essential ingredients for a huge smoothie (the lions’ favourite drink!) and play their African djembe drums along the way.
Class 3 started their Creative Collaboratives sessions yesterday. We are very lucky to be working with Susan Gardner who is teaching us drama techniques through which we are exploring aspects of Ancient Egyptian life.
This afternoon Year 6 began their ‘Fast Fashion’ Design & Technology learning by examining their own clothing and which countries their clothing has come from. After that children carefully looked at their coats to identify special features and a range of sewing techniques.
Our Year 6 pupils continue to develop their instrumental skills. Our guitarists were learning to play a Blues riff, whilst our flautists are working towards their Grade 1.
What great musical talent they have!
Our pupil Reading Rangers have a passion for reading, which they want to share with others. Today they launched their ‘Lunchtime Book Club’.
Pupils from each year group will be invited to the school library each week. Our pupils do love to read 😊
Class 3 have loved their first Forest School session! We have climbed trees, done bark rubbings, sawn wood, hunted for bugs and birds amongst lots of other exciting activities. Mrs Reddings loved the worm measurer! We finished the session around the campfire eating smores and drinking hot chocolate. We can’t wait for next week!
Class 3 have had a wonderful hook day learning all about the Ancient Egyptians.
We used clay to make a cartouche and wrote our names in hieroglyphics. We have used repeating patterns to decorate a an Egyptian collar or ‘wesekh’. We decorated a death mask based on the most famous death mask ever found, that of the boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamun.
Key Stage 1 returned to school after the holidays to CCTV footage of Santa losing control of his sleigh in the storm and a polar bear walking across the playground as he fell off the sleigh – there were polar bear footprints all over the classrooms!!! Children have been busy making a large igloo in the classroom for the polar bear to sleep in overnight, making small igloos using a variety of materials including sugar cubes and finding out facts about polar bears. The children’s task this week is to not only think of ways to keep the polar bear cool, but to write letters to Santa to tell him where his polar bear is and to come and collect him. I wonder how long the polar bear will continue to live at our school???
Class 3 have started their Design and Technology project, ‘How do I use different sewing techniques and fastenings to create a money container?’
We learned about the famous Louis Vuitton and afterwards we learned 3 new sewing techniques.
Year 6 launched their history learning on Ancient Maya by examining a timeline. Children learnt about the four periods of Ancient Maya civilisation before seeing what was happening in Britain and worldwide at the same time!
Congratulations to our winner of the 12 Days of Christmas Attendance Winner. Our pupil has attended school everyday since the start of term. Well done and enjoy your special reward.
This morning children have been experimenting with our new micro:bits. These are tiny programmable computers that can be used to play music and make games among many other things!
Congratulations to Little John for winning the House Team cup this term. They achieved a whopping 23,115 points!
Well done to all of the pupils for their team spirit, teamwork, effort and achievements this term.
Congratulations to our amazing pupils who were recognised and awarded for their accomplishments in Achievement, Behaviour or Kindness.
Every child promotes and reflects our core values. We are so proud of them all. Well done!
Our pupils with 100% attendance were rewarded with a movie and treats – great work everyone!
Our audience were treated to an amazing performance of Dick Whittington. Year 5 and 6 pupils showed great performing arts, leaving our audience wanting more.
What great talent our pupils have! We can’t wait for next years performance! Well done to all.
Congratulations to the winners of our Anti-Bullying poster competition. Their creative and original designs certainly make a ‘Noise About Bullying!’
Our pupils sang beautifully, performing a range of celebrations from different religions. We enjoyed listening to songs such as: ‘Dreidel’ a Jewish celebration of Hanukkah, ‘Feliz Navidad’ Spanish Christmas song, ‘Allah Hoo’ Islamic devotional song and Jingle Bells an American song and was originally written for Thanksgiving.
Our pupils showed great talent and we enjoyed representing our diverse community. well done to our No Outsiders for organising a wonderful event.
Wow, take a look at the wonderful handmade gifts our pupils made to sell at the Christmas Fair. Our families enjoyed toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate, playing chocolate tombola and much more. A great afternoon was enjoyed by all and helped to raise funds for our school. Thank you to all for your support.
This morning Year 6 welcomed Cross Teach into school for their Christmas Experience workshop. Children completed different activities to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the Christmas story.
We visited St Peter’s Church in Radford to celebrate Christingle. Revd Naeem Bahadur retold the Christmas Story. We enjoyed taking part in the service, singing and lighting our Christingle. Thank you very much Revd Naeem and your team.
Well done to all of Class 2 for their amazing efforts with the Great Green Read writing competition. You have all done so well and have been given this fantastic wildlife book for entering from The National Literacy Trust. Great work to all 🤩📕
Thank you SO SO much to everyone that came today for the Year 1 and 2 exhibition. The children have loved you being in school and getting creative. We appreciate your support as always!
Class 3 created pop surrealist art work inspired by the Eric Joyner painting, ‘Robot R & R’.
He loves to paint robots and donuts and puts them in different settings. Do you recognise some of the settings in Nottingham that we chose?
Well done to these children for their super efforts with the Christmas card competition. We are very proud of our artists.