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• Week commencing 20th May 2019

  Fri 24 May 2019

  Six excited Key Stage Two children attended a poetry writing workshop at Bengeworth Academy on Monday 20th May.  The morning is designed to inspire young people to set their imaginations to work, and was delivered by a published children's poet - Debra Bertulis!  Everyone had a very successful session, listening to and interpreting the famous 'In the Hall of the Mountain King', then drafting poems before performing them in front of an audience of children and adults from various local schools! Well done Sophie, Eli, Lois, Ethan, Tom and Daisie!

  On Monday afternoon Year One walked to Ellenden Farm.  We have been completing a topic all about plants and how they grow and went to see a real working farm in action. We loved walking around the orchard and seeing all the fruit trees growing. We got a chance to visit the farm shop and see all the amazing fruits and vegetables they had on offer. We challenged ourselves to see if we could name all the vegetables in the shop... it was very tricky.  We each took some money along to the shop to buy some fruit and vegetables for our cooking day this week. We enjoyed selecting the produce and working out how much money and change we would need at the till. We are very much looking forward to cooking up some yummy treats for our garden party this week. 

  Year 1 enjoyed our end of topic Garden Party this week. We spent the morning doing lots of cooking with the ingredients we bought from Ellenden Farm. We made apple scones and spinach and cheese muffins. We loved sharing our baking with our grown-ups during our picnic on the field. Thank you to all those who attended.

  Our Home School Link together with our Family Support Worker led a Sleep/Bedtime Routine workshop on Wednesday. Thank you to those parents who attended - we hope you found it informative.

• Week commencing 13th May 2019

  Fri 17 May 2019

  Reception class had a brilliant trip to St James’ church. The children learnt lots about the different parts of the church from Reverend Richard Thorniley. They enjoyed sitting in the sunshine and sketching the outside of the church building, creating their own stain glass windows and exploring the church. Phoebe said, “Can we do more sketching, I really liked it”. Arthur said, “I like finding different things in church”.  Thank you to Reverend Thorniley for supporting the children’s learning.

  On Friday KS2 visited the science museum in Bristol. We were able to explore so many different exhibits including animations, parachutes and bubbles.  The children enjoyed being able to touch and test everything around the museum.  Each class also completed a different workshop that linked in with their science topics.  We all had a brilliant day and the children were extremely well behaved and keen to find out answers to questions they had.

  Also on Friday, KS1 and Early Years held a joint Art day. Children were split into three mixed age groups and rotated throughout the day to complete three pieces of art. Our theme for the day was the seaside. We had an assembly in the morning to discuss all the things we knew about the seaside and some time to talk about our experiences of visiting the seaside. We were all very excited to get going. It was wonderful to see children from each year working together and supporting each other throughout the day. Well done to everyone, there were some fantastic pieces of art produced. Look out for some new displays popping up around school soon. 

• Week commencing 6th May 2019

  Fri 10 May 2019

  After school clubs started this week. We have a great selection of clubs for children to attend this term which include Outdoor Sports, Cricket, Drama, Handbells, Playclub, Purple Mash Computing, Boccia, Rounders, Cookery and Football. These will continue until week ending 28th June.

• Week commencing 29th April 2019

  Fri 03 May 2019

  We all returned to school on Monday after a lovely Easter break.

  This week Year 5 children participated in Bikeability training. They learned how to ride their bikes correctly perfecting turns, safe riding and emergency stops. Thank you to our instructors Robin and Pam and to Mrs Sale for accompanying the children out on the roads. Well done Year 5 you were all brilliant!

  Music lessons started again this week with Mr Blackman and Mr Telford - please remember instruments and music.

  Year 4 enjoyed the first of their swimming lessons yesterday.

  Miss Beaver took four Year 3 children to St Andrew's First School yesterday for a Cluster Writing Event. The children watched a video and listened to sounds of the beach then were asked to write a story about a desert island. Well done to everyone who took part.

  Year 5 wrapped up warm today for their bell boating trip on the River Avon - they are getting into practise for the school regatta to be held in June. We wish them the very best of luck and hope for better weather!