Today pupils composed their own songs celebrating the things they enjoy. They proudly shared their songs to the group, who listened respectfully and were very supportive. Some of the pupils even created their own melody! The pupils continue to shine with creativity and grow with confidence each week. Well done!
In Reception, we have been working on the book Peculiar Pets and we have been creating pets out of salt dough. We wrote down the recipe and planned our next step for how we were going to make a nice place for our pets. We went on to build our animal beds, cages and fishbowls. They looked amazing!
Today was Safer Internet day across school and Year 3 created a timeline of internet milestones, deciding at what age young people might experience them. We discussed how they felt about online bullying and unreliable information, and who can help us deal with this.
We are very excited to be joining partnership with MHST, who are funded by NHS England to support the mental wellbeing of children in both primary and secondary schools and colleges.
Today, to launch Children’s Mental Health Week, Educational Mental Health Practitioners led a whole school assembly to introduce MHST. They discussed what mental health is, how we feel, who we can talk to and ask for help and the importance of looking after our mind.
Pupils will be involved in more activities throughout the wee linked to this year’s Mental Health week theme; “LET’S CONNECT”.
What a busy and fun-filled afternoon class 3 have had at Wollaton Park doing Forest School activities; looking at what’s inside a tree, bug hunting and bark rubbing.
We even had time for a hot chocolate!
As part of our wider opportunities lesson today, we have been learning about diverse families. We read the story of Grandad’s Camper and we celebrated the different families in class 3.
This afternoon, pupils sampled a range of Victorian flavourings. Flavourings included: parsley, mint, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger and lemon juice. The children were able to link some tastes to food they have eaten previously. We look forward to using some of these flavourings in our cooking lessons next week!
Class 2 enjoyed baking bread today! We weighed out the ingredients, mixed, kneaded and made our bread balls. We are leaving them overnight and will cook them in the morning. It was so much fun! 🍞
We looked at our seeds and they had grown. We measured them and checked to see if our predictions were correct! Do you know what a plant needs to grow well?
Classes 1 and 2 love reading books!! We’re sharing our favourites … but what is your favourite book?
Class 1 and 2 joined together for their history lesson. They were looking at pictures from the Great Fire of London and discussing what happened at that time and why they think the fire spread. They then made a plaque with important information to remember this event. Great teamwork!
Staff at Southwold Primary started National Storytelling week off by sharing their favourite stories with their classes.
National Storytelling Week takes place every year and is a celebration of the power of sharing stories. Stories teach us about the world, they allow us to step into someone else’s shoes and feel empathy, they help us to relax and escape and they can help develop essential literacy skills.
Year 5 are taking part in Bikeability this week. Bikeability is a progressive programme, in which pupils first master cycle handling skills in a traffic free environment to complete level 1. National Standards Cycling Instructors help to develop pupils skills and confidence to cycle on local roads and simple junctions for level 2.
Bikeability is designed to give young people the skills and confidence to ride, especially on roads. Cycling is a life skill and learning to ride a bike is something we believe pupils should be able to achieve.