School News
Trip to Shrewsbury Museum – Dragonfly Class
Today Dragonfly Class went to Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery to find out more about Charles Darwin. In the morning, we went on a walk around Shrewsbury town centre to look at significant places in his life including the Quarry, St Chads Church and his old school which is now Shrewsbury Library. In the afternoon, we looked around the museum and discovered more about his theory of evolution. Finally, we used quills and ink to do some observational drawing of some of the specimens from the museum. We had a great day and many of the children were keen to return to the museum to see all of the other exhibits that we didn’t have time to fit in. The museum is free to visit and a fascinating place to find out more about Shropshire’s rich history.
Wonderland!
Hedgehog Class have had the most fantastic day at Wonderland, Telford today! We visited the houses of various Traditional Tale characters, went on some fun rides and took part in a brilliant storytelling session with the Mad Hatter! This has all helped to enhance the work that we have been doing in class on Traditional Tales this term. We were shown some new ones that the children didn’t know as well so, we’ll be learning them over the next few weeks. The children have all had a great day and made us incredibly proud of their behaviour! Well done team!
Wonderland, Telford have kindly given each child in Hedgehog Class a free return ticket which expires in September. These will be handed out to the children tomorrow.
Snow fun!
Hedgehog 🦔 class have had a super time in the snow this week! Our toes and fingers have got a bit chilly but we have really enjoyed making snowmen, snow angels and snow balls! ☃️🌨❄️
Celebration Assembly – Snow week!
A huge thank you and well done to all the children, families and staff who persevered with the weather and kept going through the two snow days – there has been a lot of fun and memories made over the past two days as well as learning!
In Bumblebees, Alfie achieved Star of the Week for independence and following instructions:
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Elsie and Alice– for a brilliant performance on guitar!
- Sebastien– for a great attitude towards tests this week
- Seren– for being a great friend and always making others happy
- Percy & Otto– for great sportsmanship
- Lily– for super phonics
- Poppy– for a super attitude to learning
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
A special ‘well-done’ to our winter walkers!
A special well-done to the Incles family for showing true determination to come to school today! They walked nearly two hours to get here safely with lots of scientific chat along the way apparently! Well done Elliot, India and January!
Superstar footballers!
A big well done to Freddie and Laurie for earning medals at their football club session this week. Freddie earned his for bravery whilst Laurie showed super skills in goal! We’re really proud of both of you boys – keep it up.
Super swimmer Hallie!
Hallie proudly showed-off her Stage 3 Swimming Award for swimming head-first (sculling) at her lessons. Well done Hallie – that’s amazing!
Owl Guitarists
A big thank you to ALice and Elsie for performing their guitars this afternoon in class – you are coming on brilliantly and we all beat you at recognising the tunes. Keep going both of you!
Miss Whit’s Headteachers Award
Proudly earned in the Owl Class igloo-building competition!
SNOW DAY!
SNOW DAY!!!
We have had GREAT fun in school for a snow day today: snowmen, snow angels, team building and laughter aplenty with some seriously big balls of snow to push around! The school fields have been the perfect place for snowy shenanigans… Enjoy some of the photos below – click to enlarge 🙂
The whole school:
Palm Sunday
This week, we have been learning about Palm Sunday in RE. The children have joined in with role play, made their own flags, written “Hosanna” on palm leaves and decorated them, built the gateway to Jerusalem using Duplo and painted pictures of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem. They’ve had a great time and know so much more about Christian beliefs around Easter already!
3D Shapes
Today we started learning about 3D shapes. We learnt the names of cone, cube, cuboid, pyramid, sphere and cylinder. These were all new words for lots of the children but they managed really well! We talked about some of the properties of the shapes which would help us to identify the name of the shape. The children were then set the challenge of sorting the shapes into 2 different groups, thinking of their own criteria. Well done all!
Celebration Assembly 03.03.23
We’ve had a fun-filled first week back: World Book Day was undoubtedly the event of the week and we would like to thank all the parents / carers of our children for the wonderful costumes and enthusiasm! Check out the class pages for more photographs.
Here are this week’s celebrations…
Acorn Awards (earning House Points with two pupils chosen per class; awarded by teachers for class-based work / learning attitudes):
- Thomas– for being enthusiastic about World Book Day
- Brooke, Tilley, Lucy & Blake– for all settling in so well this week! Well done to each of you.
- Caitlyn– for trying hard all week
- Lawrie– lovely independent writing
- Liz– for brilliant creativity on WBD
- Grayson – for always being kind and listening to his friends
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Plus an extra winner in Rabbit Class as they had the most tickets this week 👏
Super swimmer Elliot
Elliot proudly shared his latest swimming awards; he has won Silver and Bronze medals at recent races for Oswestry Otters. It was great to hear Elliot explain his training and dedication to swimming with the sport and club – well done Elliot, we are all really proud of you.
Happy birthdays to James-Noah, Tilley, Jackson & Delilah (Bumblebees)
World Book Day in Bumblebees
What a wonderful World Book Day we had in Bumblebees.
We read lots of stories, did lots of role playing, we discussed our favourite book characters and we learnt about the parts of a book and what authors and illustrators do.
At the end of the day we joined Hedgehog Class and had a fabulous story session with the children’s author Teresa Heapy. The children really enjoyed listening to her story ‘Very Little Cinderella’. The children then joined in with a song and Teresa introduced her puppet friends Very Little Red Riding Hood and Foxie.
What an exciting day! The children are already deciding what they’d like to dress up as for World Book Day 2024.
