After reading, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”, Mrs Hann collected up some clouds with a big spoon. She brought them in for the Pioneers to feel and to and to flatten.
The clouds went everywhere.
Author: Scott Grason-Taylor
Reading – Books and Baubles
On Tuesday 11th February Leaders welcomed parents into their classroom for the exciting opening of their second books.
Over the course of the morning: we shared our books with each other; played reading games; and made a reading bauble. We used vocabulary from our books that we thought would help people guess which book our bauble was about.
They are already hanging up in the classroom – we would love to see you come and have a go at guessing the books.
A Busy Half Term
What a busy half term Learners have had!
A visit from Sister Gilpin, a Chinese New Year celebration and much more besides.
Check out our photos below to see us in action:
£10 Fundraising Initiative
As part of our enterprise initiative in school, we were given £10 to make grow: developing new skills in creativity, problem solving, teamwork and leadership.
We had a great idea to host a clothes sale, tombola and cake stall, in order to raise money for the koalas, who have been affected by the bushfires in Australia. We also hoped to raise enough money to purchase some binoculars for the ‘bird watch’ challenge later this year.
We had a wonderful day preparing for the sale: creating posters and baking cakes.
We are delighted to say that we raised £400!
£10 Fundraising Initiative
As part of our enterprise initiative in school, Adventurers were given £10 to make grow, inspiring the children to develop new skills in creativity, problem solving, team work and leadership.
The children decided to hold a clothes sale, tombola and cake stall: recycling old clothes and unwanted gifts, which was linked to our present topic ‘Together, we can change the world’.
We had a wonderful day preparing for the sale and then greeting our families and selling the donated goods.
We were delighted to raise over £400.00, some of which will be donated to helping koalas injured in the bushfires in Australia, and some towards buying binoculars for our ‘bird watch’ challenge later this year.
A Victorian Visit – Preston Park
On Thursday 6th February, along with Discoverers, Leaders visited Preston Park. The aim was to begin to investigate the Victorian era, immersing ourselves into life in Victorian times.
Leaders began by spending time in the classroom, learning what life would have been like in a Victorian school. There were many surprises: the amount of children in every class; the different ages of the children in a class; how the children would have carried out their lessons on a slate; and the punishments that you would be given if you did not something you were asked.
Teachers would most likely be women although, once they got married, they were unable to be a teacher.
Leaders spent the afternoon investigating the Victorian street. There were so many tiny bottles in the Chemist, all were made of glass, and contained an array of different ingredients that would be mixed together to make medicine to treat you. Leaders found the bottles in the sweet ship far more interesting, filled with a rainbow of different coloured sweets. The lady in the shop explained who would have been able to buy the sweets and how much they would have cost. There were some very sad faces when they realised that this would not have been a daily or weekly event.
The Drapers was the place they found out about the Victorian clothes, investigating lost of different headwear, and saw some Victorian pennies.
Finally, they spent some time on the street having a go at paying with some of the toys. The hoops were much harder to use than the children expected.
Fascinated by Microbes
We began the week singing and writing about washing our hands. As part of this work,we looked at images from under a microscope. These images showed different bacteria and the children were fascinated. Many of the Pioneers have drawn and painted and talked about the shapes and the colours. The resulting images are impressive. We have a new book to continue this work next week.
Go Pioneers
Getting Sticky. Cool Badger Food
The addition of flour and water made the compost much stickier and the children experimented with the consistency. They were very restrained when helping themselves to their required ingredients. They helped each other and at one point I heard a little voice say,”We are a team.”
Look out for some fabulous writing done on Friday. This will be displayed in the classroom from Monday.
Cool Badger Food.
So many beautiful moments in learning.
Badger Snacks
The dry sandwich filling didn’t work so. we tried adding water. This was great fun but the filling was still a bit flaky. We really needed to add something else to hold it all together.
Friday 7th February 2020
This week, we have been on an exciting trip to Preston Park, where we explored their Victorian Street and the museum, and we had a handwriting lesson in a themed classroom. We were shocked at some of the punishments for children in Victorian schools. Did you know that if a child wrote with their left hand, and was caught doing so, they would be made to stand at the front of the classroom with their fingers inside a finger-trap?
Take a look at our exciting day below:
