Read below to find out more about some of the different activities we have been getting up to; from sporting and musical activities, to visitors and 'wow' days. We are looking forward to helping our children 'explore and grow' further in 2023-24.

• Remote Learning

  Mon 23 Mar 2020 M Davis

  A huge thank you to all of our school community for their patience and understanding as we prepared for school closure on Friday. The care and support we have received from parents has been overwhelming.

   

  All parents are successfully logged in to ClassDojo - if you have yet to activate your child's personal account to access their portfolio, please direct message the class teacher if you need help.

   

  At the end of day one, all I can say is 'WOW'. You have all been amazing, getting on with your learning packs and sending in your work to your teachers through ClassDojo. Keep going - we are looking at everything you send.

   

  A huge thank you must go to the teachers for their hard work last week getting your packs ready, and their readiness to be available online to answer any queries throughout each day. I'm particularly grateful to them for continuing your shared class books - log in to Dojo to hear your next instalment if you are in Teal or Cobalt, or to see which book has been voted for Mrs Gould to read in Aqua.

   

  Hopefully we will all be together again soon.

• Sports Relief

  Fri 13 Mar 2020 M Davis

  On Friday 13th March we spent time supporting Sports Relief. The children were able to come in their sports kits, or in their favourite sporting outfit. We also relaunched the Golden Mile. All of the children completed at least a mile on Friday morning either running round the playground (23 laps makes a mile) or round the field (12 laps!).

   

  Thank you to the staff for their organisation of the mile and to parents for their contributions to charity. We have raised over £50. 

   

  Pictures to follow.

• Science Week and the Curly Wurly Challenge!

  Fri 13 Mar 2020 M Davis

  From 9th to 13th March we spent the week celebrating science in school. The week started with asking the children to look at what they thought a 'scientist' looks like, followed by various 'wow' science activities in classrooms throughout the week. These included activities such as looking at the effect of cornflour in water, creating bubble pictures and looking at what happens when you add vinegar to bicarbonate soda. Cobalt class made volcanic eruptions!

   

  The highlight of the week was the whole school Curly Wurly challenge. The children were put into teams and challenged to see how long they could make a Curly Wurly stretch! This involved a lot of planning, and thinking about how to make an initially quite brittle chocolate bar become more pliable and stretchy. It was a very sticky experiment - but the  children used lots of ingenious ways to stretch out their Curly Wurly. The winning team managed to exceed 5 metres long!!

   

  A huge thank you to Miss Barker for organising the week and for leading our whole school experiment. We hope the children enjoyed their week of being scientists, and have perhaps changed their view of what a scientist 'looks like' - we discovered that we are all scientists!

   

  Pictures of Science Week will follow asap. 

• Passover Assembly

  Wed 11 Mar 2020 M Davis

  A huge thank you to our governor, Linda Edward, for coming in to talk to the children about the Jewish Festival of Passover on Wednesday morning. 

   

  Linda came and shared the Jewish traditions of Passover that her family follow during this Jewish festival. The children enjoyed listening to the story of Moses, the 10 plagues and the escape from Egypt, as well as learning more about the sedar plate and the significance of the foods on this. The children were able to taste the matza and delicious cinnamon balls, created without flour.

   

  Pictures to follow.

• World Book Day 2020

  Sat 07 Mar 2020 M Davis

  The school was transformed into 'Wonderland' for World Book Day this year, as we joined together with a theme based on Alice in Wonderland. 

   

  The children arrived in school to find a transformed entrance hall through which they walked to get to our reading breakfast. A huge thank you to all parents who joined us to read books, eat toast and have a quick drink. 

   

  Once parents had left, we joined together to share an abridged version of Alice in Wonderland before returning to our classrooms for activities. 

   

  Aqua class spent the day creating the food for a very special tea party at the end of the day, as well as exploring character descriptions. Meanwhile, Teal and Cobalt classes spent the morning exploring how to play croquet (but focussing on the correct rules, rather than the peculiar ones that the Queen of Hearts uses!) and learning about Alice in Wonderland in French - bringing characters to life through ICT to speak in French!

   

  During the afternoon there were more opportunities to read and write related to ALice in Wonderland, before we all joined together for shared stories and our Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

   

  A huge thank you to Mrs Gould for organising the day, and to all the staff who helped create the entrance hall and designed different activities. Thank you also to Mrs Edward, one of our governors, and to various houses at Oakham School, who lent us their croquet sets!