This morning Tiny has challenged Year 6 to find a six digit number. However, Tiny was clear it was a very specific six digit number. Children used their logical skills as well as their digit cards to experiment. Children really didn’t like making incorrect guesses but they showed fantastic perseverance to tackle the challenge!
A lovely first session at Forest School with Ms Turner-Jones. This year, Year 6 are looking at survival skills and children were challenged to filter some dirty water. Other tasks included a bug hunt, wood whittling & den building. Of course, the session was ended with a fire and s’mores!
As part of our history hook day, we looked at a range of photographs that had missing sections. Children used their investigative skills to think about the missing sections. Next, the whole photograph was revealed and children wrote about what each section displayed.
“This is our last visit as part of this project, and we have loved every minute. The behaviour and interest from the pupils have been excellent throughout and they have been a pleasure to work with. It’s so lovely when they come back week after week, keen to get involved, spotting insects, frogs and snails, tasting herbs and lettuces and really enjoying the experience. The group of parents have been invaluable and we hope, with their help we have set you up for a wildlife friendly school.”
Many thanks Andy Beth and Cain
Another super afternoon with pupils and parents. Today we weeded and prepared the planting beds in the Early Years playground. With the help of the pupils and staff we have planted herbs and flowers that are good for wildlife and tasting! The children love watering with the hosepipe!
We completed the bamboo screening and weeded in the allotment- lots of lettuces are ready to pick!
Well done to our fabulous children who were recognised for the achievement, behaviour or kindness award this term.
We are so proud of their achievements.
Congratulations and continue to be amazing!
Congratulations to our pupils, who received the Always Award for their consistent positive behaviours.
They had great fun learning scooter and skateboard skills and tricks! We were so impressed with their resilience, perseverance and collaboration.
Well done everyone 😊
Key Stage 1 had a great end of term visit to Wollaton park. The weather may have been hot but the children stayed cool in the shade of the trees and explored many different activities as part of ‘Forest Schools’. They had a treasure hunt for the Forest fairy’s rings, climbed trees, made treasure bracelets from natural materials, created animal footprints with clay, found minibeasts in their natural environments and made fairy houses using sticks and mallets. A great day was had by all.
During the week, all classes participated in Money Week and the investigated the ‘Five Big Questions about Money’ from Lifesavers. Our pupils met Milo and read his story.
In EYFS, pupils talked about whether to save money or spend it. They looked at different coins and notes so they could see what they felt like. They even set up a class shop and enjoyed using money stamps to create our own savings books.
Class 3 pupils thought about what they could do with £5.00, answering the question, ‘How does money make us feel?’ They had some lovely answers including buying something for a friend and giving it to charity.
Key Stage 2 had a fabulous time at Bluecoat Wollaton this morning, taking part in the Go for Gold fun run. We were so impressed with everyone’s positive attitude and energy!
Today our pupils helped to create our ‘Beebay’ with a variety of habitats for wildlife to enjoy.
The children also planted shrubs to create a green wall on our school grounds.
Our horticulturalists were very impressed with their collaboration, resilience and care for nature.
Congratulations to Little John, who won the House Cup again this term.
The team members have shown immense collaboration to earn the most dojo points.
Well done Little John!
This morning, Year 6 had their final Transition workshop – this time with Into University. After a brief recap of their Into University journey since Year 4, the focus changed to moving up to secondary school in September. Children completed four activities including giving advice, timetabling and skills. After their recent visits to their secondary schools and the recent workshops, children are excited for September!
EYFS had a great time at their stay and play. Mummies and daddies enjoyed it too . We also enjoyed being outside using all the scooters, bikes and climbing.
It was lovely to see so many parents engaging in their children’s learning today at the Year 3 and 4 project exhibition. We were particularly impressed with your Roman army testudo (tortoise) formation!
This week Key Stage 1 finished their topic all about castles, as part of our Creativity Collaboratives project with a great visit to Bolsover castle. The children had the chance to see parts of the old ruins of the castle, look out over the battlements, see rooms as they may have originally been used and dress up in traditional clothing. What a great first hand experience for the children to have to enhance their learning.
Our Key Stage 2 pupils took part in an assembly delivered by UK Parliament. Pupils learnt about The Houses of Parliament, The House of Commons and The House of Lords. The discussed a proposed bill, shared their opinions and voted. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed learning about democracy as part of their British Values.
Congratulations to our pupils who were recognised for their achievement, behaviour and kindness this term.
All of our displayed our core values in abundance. We are so proud of their achievements. Well done.
Our horticulturalists, pupils and parents worked on the next phase of the Nature Park Project. Trees and shrubs were planted to help create ‘green walls’ and wild gardens in our school grounds. The allotment was also tended too: weeding and more planting.
Well done to our pupil for her amazing story about a group of rabbits and a trickster badger and sly fox! She won the Great Green Read National Literacy Trust competition and was presented with two beautiful books and a certificate today, as well as, some wonderful books for our school. Keep writing you clever girl – perhaps you’ll become a famous author one day. Well done!
Wow! A fantastic sporting day enjoyed by all. Our pupils showed great collaboration, perseverance and resilience as they competed in a variety of events.
Thank you as always to our families, who cheered and encouraged all competitors.
We’re already looking forward to next year!
This afternoon in science we tested the permeability of 6 soils; clay soil, chalk soil, clay loam, sandy soil, chalk loam and peat soil. We poured 300 ml of water through each soil. After 5 minutes, we measured how much water was in our beaker.
Today are Green Team and pupils, staff, parents and horticulturalist Andy worked on the school allotment. Pathways were cleared, bark chip cleared to reduce weeds and enable access. They planted vegetables, salad and herbs plants to provide food for our pupils eat. They also started to restore the pond to promote biodiversity and a home for frogs. Our pupils loved meeting the frogs!
Congratulations to our Southwold catering team, won Bronze in the Caterers Challenge for their brilliant costumes, recipes and engagement with the school in Eat Them To Defeat Them! The team also cater for special diets and foster positive relationships with the children and school. Thank you so much, for all that you do for our pupils.
Today we started our first project to develop the school allotment, involving parent volunteers and their children and Year 6 pupils. Working alongside Andy and his team of horticulturists, they showed great collaboration and perseverance to clear the grounds.
Next week, we will meet again to continue the project.
This is part of our commitment to improve biodiversity and empower children to make a positive difference to both their own and to nature’s future.
What a colourful day we have had taking part in ‘A Day of Welcome’. Our pupils wore green and/or yellow or their traditional outfits to celebrate this day. Children completed activities discussing what makes a home, using various languages to describe this.
Our pupils showed that they know why it is important to make everyone feel welcome. As well as, how to welcome children and their families to our school.
Thank you so much to parents, who provided traditional foods and desserts to share. Learning about other cultures helps to build strong relations, understanding of one another and a happy community.
Our pupils enjoyed their spoken poetry workshop with poet Manjit Sahota.
Linked to Refugee Week theme of ‘Home’. Our pupils listened, wrote and performed their poems to their peers.
What a wonderful morning to welcome and celebrate our different cultures.
Thank you Manjit – our pupils loved every minute 😊
As part of Refugee Week, today our No Outsiders welcomed students from NEST (educational provision for asylum seeker and refugee young people). Our No Outsider Team told them about their leadership role, diversity and inclusion manifesto and our multi-cultural school.
NEST students met pupils in Years 3 – 6 and talked about their home countries, traditional food, culture, sports and much more. Our pupils asked lots of interesting questions and were keen to learn more. It was lovely to hear our pupils talking to our visitors in their spoken language too!
This afternoon, we completed our final lesson on light. Children investigated how filters affect the colour of objects. Children had to make predictions before completing the practical part of the experiment. Once results were discussed, children had to write a conclusion.