Last week 8, KS1 children participated in a rugby festival at Holy Family School.
They played different mini games to introduce them into rugby.
The children loved playing a new game and competing against other schools!
Last week 8, KS1 children participated in a rugby festival at Holy Family School.
They played different mini games to introduce them into rugby.
The children loved playing a new game and competing against other schools!
During half term, we ran a sports and activity day for 38 children.
They all enjoyed a range of activities including dodgeball, football, dressing as a Mummy, apple bobbing, just dance and Art.
The children and adults really enjoyed the day and look forward to the next one in February half term!
We learnt about Autumn and found lots of Autumn treasures in the forest in our school.
Collecting sunflower seeds from sunflowers grown in the school garden to make bird feeders.
We drilled holes in conkers and threaded string through them to make conker chains.
Our New Multi Use Games Area
We have enhanced our sporting curriculum with the addition of an amazing Multi Use Games Area.
The children now have a dedicated zone for sport and a place to practice and develop their technique, fundamental movement skills and cardiovascular fitness. Along with gaining a love for sport, we hope our new Multi Use Games Area will encourage children to lead a healthier lifestyle.
For this project, we worked with Pentagon Play who design and install outdoor learning environments for schools and nurseries.
You can visit their website here – www.pentagonplay.co.uk
During our topic on mini-beasts, we read the story of The Bog Baby, a mythical creature who lived in a bog and who became sick when it was taken away from its habitat, even though the people who had caught it loved it very much and tried to look after it in their home.
The postman brought some caterpillars for us to look after. We looked closely every day to see if anything was happening.
We had to wait patiently, but after a while, the caterpillars formed cocoons around themselves
After a week or so, we were excited to see four beautiful butterflies in the butterfly house.
We remembered the story of the Bog Baby and realised that even though we loved them, we could not keep the butterflies for ourselves, but had to let them fly off to where they belonged in the wild. We took them over to the school’s forest area and let them go free.
We are now looking for bog babies in the school pond!
A couple of days ago staff completed some tidying of the wild life area around the pond. It looks so much better - well done!
This term, year 3 have been looking after the Bunyanites, who were forced to move from their home in Hawaii when natural disasters destroyed their houses, shops and schools. We have spent a lot of time learning about the different natural disasters, especially volcanoes and earthquakes, including what they are, why they are caused and where they are most likely to occur in the world.
We have then helped the Bunyanites prepare for a move back to Hawaii. In DT, we have been looking at the different types of bridges and then worked collaboratively to problem solve and construct our own bridges to help transport the Bunyanites home.
In our first lesson, we looked at the links involved in building bridges and so we used paperclips and attached them to pieces of cardboard. After this, we have then spent several lessons building our own bridges out of empty food containers and wrappers, before covering them in papier-mâché and painting them.
On the 24th June, eight year 3/4 children participated in a cricket competition.
They had never played together before and showed themselves to be great team players!
They finished 2nd place in their group. Well done.
This week 38 KS2 children took part in district sports.
They competed in different events including running, jumping and throwing.
All of the children were excellent ambassadors to our school and showed outstanding sportsmanship! Well done!
In Foundation Stage the children have been continuing their learning through play.
They have been able to follow their own curiosities and investigations to develop their existing knowledge.
Willows had a great time at the Food and Farming day at Writtle college. We discovered how grain is planted, harvested and what it can be made into; what foods we can grow (tasting was popular!); what animals give us food (the sausages and bacon were very tasty!) and what machinery is used to grow grains.
Great fun was had by all on Wednesday at the year 5/6 disco!
Graffiti wall in year six.
Six KS1 children went to play 3Ts cricket at Howbridge Infant School.
They all really enjoyed it and showed brilliant teamwork and sportsmanship during all the games they played!
Well done!
On Friday 26th April, we had two children competing in the county cross-country finals!
They were both excellent ambassadors to our school and showed brilliant determination in their respective races!
Thomas in year 5, finished 60th.
Righteous in year 6, finished 9th.
On Monday 29th April, the learning champions from KS2 visited the Houses of Parliament.
We watched an educational video all about the history of parliament up to present day. After this, we saw the House of Commons and the House of Lords and found out that green and red are the colours for each house.
We learnt about the lords, baroness' and MPs roles in making our laws including how they vote using ay and no.
Within the House of Lords, we found out about the Queen's speech and saw the ornate throne she sits on during the opening of parliament.
During the tour, we saw many statues of former prime ministers as well as Kings and Queens.
The architecture of the building was beautiful with lots of detailed stain glass windows; huge portrait paintings; chandeliers and woodcarvings.
This term the year 4 classes worked with Mercury Theatre. We worked hard using drama to learn our class story in various ways including freeze framing and taking the part of a character. Then we innovated our stories through drama, which help us when writing our hot writes.
In The Reception and Nursery classes, we have been busy learning to read, write and count. We have been busy investigating and keeping active. There are always lots of things to keep us busy!
Year six have been learning about the Mayan civilisation this term. We found out where the Mayans lived and how their civilisation was discovered. We enjoyed finding out how they used masks in their culture. We designed our masks after looking at different types. We then made our masks out of clay, which we air dried and then painted.