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Today we have been celebrating Red Nose Day. The children came to school wearing their uniform with red accessories including red noses. Many thanks for your amazing films for our Comic Relief video– they are extremely entertaining and we look forward to sharing the finished production with you once we have edited them together. In our Celebration assembly this afternoon it was great to hear the wonderful learning that has been taking place this week. From exploding volcanoes, Swan Lake Ballet production, frog spawn, ducklings, The Wild Robot writing, Rainforest artwork, reading the Great Kapok Tree and a tremendous amount of learning outside too. What an incredibly busy week. It has been wonderful observing the school taking advantage of our campus and taking learning outside. Forest School sessions, nature walks and pop up classrooms have all returned throughout the week. Latest research (Research International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity) suggests that during lockdown most children spent less time outdoors, became less physically active and spent more time in front of screens. Active outdoor play has benefits for child health, wellbeing, development and educational attainment. Play is so important to childhood that it is enshrined as a human right in article 31 of the UN Rights of Child. It seems odd that such an important and normal aspect of childhood as playing outside is under threat, but the problem nationally was there pre-lockdown. Running, cycling, swimming, hiking, climbing, exploring and playing games not only provide opportunities
Newsletter No: 22 Friday, 19th March 2021
natural world and learning bush craft skills including whittling, knife skills, fire lighting, cooking and den building. Resurrecting active outdoor play means getting more children outdoors more often and this calls for the rewilding of childhood. That means family outings to explore nature; making park visits routine; encouraging children to play imaginatively outside, like building dens – any kind of creative outdoor for physical activity, they also stimulate play that fosters curiosity, exploration, coimagination and creativity, help us to develop operation, imagination and self-expression. problem-solving skills and encourage Lockdown has been vital to tackling the interaction with others and the environment. COVID-19 pandemic, but the loss of outdoor Free play outdoors, which isn’t organised or play should not become one of the supervised closely by parents, is especially unintended consequences. good for activity levels, wellbeing, social and Our PE lessons are a fundamental part of emotional development and resilience. The school, rather than just another subject. reasons playing outside was in decline even Physical activity is so central to the school’s pre-lockdown are complex and varied but approach to wellbeing providing include fear of children hurting themselves or opportunities to develop a child’s mental getting dirty. Safety concerns are health and physical health. Next term we are looking forward to our Sports Day and Swimming Gala for the children to participate and compete in as part of their Houses. Miss Flockhart is organising the Easter Holiday Club with many exciting activities for
conveniently reinforced with lots of “safe” things for children to do indoors, mostly in front of screens. As part of the roadmap out of lockdown, active outdoor play should be encouraged and prioritised. Time which children would have spent playing outside in the past has increasingly been replaced by screen time. Cooped up glued to a computer should be tempered with blasts of fresh air and running free without being supervised too closely. Observing children at Forest School throughout the Pandemic either with Critical Key Worker Children or in our normal weekly class sessions, it has been wonderful watching the children exploring freely the
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house points trophy Last week
Notice Board MUSICAL NOTES
House captain photo next week!
Walmgate LOST PROPERTY Mile H (3C) has lost his named school coat. Arabella W (2H) has lost her white PE top and Charlotte W (RA) has lost her PE mid-layer top. Please could you check to make sure you haven’t taken it home by accident.
HEAD LICE We have had cases of headlice reported in Reception and Year 2. Please check your child’s scalp and treat accordingly.
3S were super excited to have their first string lesson at 8-13 on Wednesday. Over the coming weeks the children will experience the full range of stringed instruments from violins to double basses. It is fabulous that our children have the opportunity to try out such a variety of orchestral instruments, taught by our team of visiting instrumental teachers. In other news, Mrs Hayden has been trying out being a PE teacher! Reception have been bouncing balls and rolling them forwards and backwards in time to the beat, all whilst singing some new songs. Reception are looking forward to challenging Miss Flockhart to become a Music teacher in their next lesson, they are hoping she might teach them a new song! Year 1 and 2 have wowed me this week learning to play music on their instruments both by ear and by reading the music notation, lots of great listening by our budding musicians!
house points trophy
Notice Board learning superheroes •Zachary W-Q (RA) •Oscar P-B (RA) •Ellie B (RB) •Kate R (1C) •Harriet F(1E)
House captain photo next week!
•Dilarum S (1J) •Novem L (1J)
Monk value champions
•Lizzie K-L(2H) •Annlee K (2J) •Angus D (3C)
•Lucas K (RA)
•Erin G (3M)
•Bertie R (RA)
•Zac P (3S)
•Finbar Y (RC) •Adele L(1C) •Grace A-M (1E) •Pierce C (1J) •Arabella W (2H) •Georgia B (2J) •Jonah H (3C) •Freddie H (3M) •Leela A (3S)
PE award •Zachariah C (RA) •Rosie T (1J)
Music award •Molly D-P (1E) •Jonah H (3C)
Reception were superstars in their PE lessons this week! In their dance lessons, the children focused on open and closed movements, working independently to create their movement utilising different body parts, before performing them to a partner. In their pairs, the children then created a sequence of movements, demonstrating brilliant collaborative skills! During their football sessions, the children
aimed to improve the accuracy of their kicks, putting their skills to the test with the ‘Foresters and Lumberjacks’ game. Everyone had great fun with this game and there were some extremely powerful and accurate kicks from our lumberjacks, sending our cone trees flying across the playground! The foresters showed brilliant balance and
determination to combat the destructive skills of the lumberjacks and pick our trees back up! Well done Reception, very impressive work!
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ACORNS
It has been another wonderful week in Acorns full of building, threading, washing, swinging, painting and being pirates!
CONKERS
A pinch of fairy dust has been sprinkled over the Conkers this week...
RECEPTION Wow, what a week we have had in Reception, there has been such a buzz of energy and excitement in the air! We had some very cute visitors on Wednesday afternoon when the Year One ducklings came to play - every child had a chance to come and watch them play and stroke them - they were adorable! There has been the feeling of the West End in Reception too this week with performances happening inside and outside - the children's love of Monkey More and Lessy Less led to lots of puppet play so the children all worked together to create a magical puppet theatre complete with stage drapes, posters, tickets, and golden seats for the audience - the puppet
shows the children have put on are hilarious!
The performances haven't stopped there; a love of Swan Lake has led to costume design, book writing, ticket making, impromptu ballet classes and a stage area being created outside for a beautiful performance of Swan Lake set to music with a very enthusiastic audience! If that wasn't enough volcanos have also been a big fascination in Reception, with giant volcano pictures, paper maché volcanoes and exciting dinosaur lands evolving throughout the week. Finally, we have to mention the 'gruelling' army training camp made outside earlier in the week, with the new recruits jumping through tyres, crawling under parachutes, climbing the tower, ringing the bell and recording their times! Phew, what a week...
RECEPTION
YEAR 1
Wow what a busy week we have had in Year 1! This week has been all about the writing; we have been writing in phonics, writing about the ducklings and writing about The Wild Robot! Watch out J.K. Rowling because we have some fabulous Year 1 writers! The ducklings have grown so much this week and we have had endless fun caring for them. We have been bathing them, letting them roam around the class and feeding them. We have learnt that ducklings like to travel
together in a group to protect them from predators. We had the best time at Forest Schools on Tuesday playing and exploring in the sunshine, it was glorious! We have also taken lots of our learning outside this week and have enjoyed playing 'Best Bet' in phonics out on the playground. It has been so lovely to see the children playing so kindly with one another and reestablishing friendships. We are so proud of how caring and kind the children are and how they are continually demonstrating collaborative learning.
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Year 2 have been making the most of their final days with our fluffy friends! On Monday, the ducklings were old enough to have their first paddle in the water and it is clear to see where the saying 'like a duck to water' comes from! It was amazing to watch them splashing, bathing and lapping up the water. They particularly loved it when we poured water into the water tray, creating a little waterfall for them to play in. As well as lots of fun and cuddles, we have been learning about the life cycle of a duck. We learned that a female duck can lay between 5 and 12 eggs and that ducks learn to fly within 5 to 8 weeks. In Art this week, the children amazed us with their sketching skills as we looked at shaping and shading whilst drawing eggs. We watched Austin's Butterfly which showed us that it is okay to do multiple drafts and highlighted how taking constructive, specific feedback can result in huge progress when broken down into steps. In science, we looked at the results of our eggs-periment from last week, which involved leaving eggs in different liquids including water, orange juice, coca cola and vinegar. We looked at the reactions that had occurred and how these had affected the eggs. Mrs Jones taught us how to use all of our senses to explore the changes and we had a great time breaking the eggs to see if any changes occurred on the inside! In maths, we have been looking at length and we used our measuring skills to design our own duckling cages. We drew scaled down plans and labelled them accurately. The children
were great designers, they even included hot tubs, poop areas and electric feeding stations in their plans - lucky ducklings! We also looked at bird wingspans and had a lovely morning measuring these out on the playground using chalk. Did you know that an albatross has a wingspan of up to 3.7m?!
YEAR 2
We will be terribly sad to say goodbye to our little friends today, but they have brought so much joy to our first two weeks back at school and they have instigated so many learning activities. Well done Year 2, another eggs-ellent week!
This week in Year Three we have based our learning on The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. It greatly inspired our art work and helped to set the scene for a very creative week. We started by sketching and drawing some of the birds from the story, such as Macaws and Toucans, looking carefully at size, shape and detail. We then added colour to our creations using paint, focussing specifically on developing our paintbrush skills by adding finer detail to our pictures. We went on to learn about the Asian Kapok flower and enjoyed some more observational drawing and painting. In the story, Senhor is approached by some butterflies which inspired us to create some of our own in the style of Japanese Notan Art, which was a new and exciting art form for us to try.
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story said to Senhor. We then wrote this in direct form, using inverted commas and exciting reporting clauses at the end. Finally, we put all of our skills to the test and created a short comic strip based on our themed text, The Jungle Book. The children also enjoyed developing their Pic Collage skills and worked in pairs to transport themselves into various settings from the book and used speech bubbles to depict what they were saying. We continue to develop our understanding of time telling in Maths and this week, focusing on reading and telling the time ‘to’ the hour. We put our time knowledge to the test towards the end of the week by working on some tricky word problems! We had great fun practicing our times tables by taking part in a times table hunt at Forest School which the children thoroughly enjoyed.
It has been an incredibly busy week and we are In English we have been working on speech! We very much looking forward to celebrating our started by coming up with our own speech for final week of our Jungle Book topic with the what the animals from The Great Kapok Tree children next week. Well done everyone!
YEAR 3
St Peter’s 2-8 Week Commencing 15/03 Easter Term 2021
Chicken and sweetcorn carbonara with pasta bows
Pizza baguettes with various weekly changing toppings
Savoury mince in a Yorkshire pudding
Tomato and basil sauce with pasta bows
Lightly spiced potato wedges
Quorn vegetable stew
Apple coleslaw, tomatoes, cucumbers and carrot sticks
Swede and potato mash, carrots
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Dairy free chocolate cake and sauce / fresh fruit
Dairy free rice pudding and jam / fresh fruit
Chicken tikka pieces on a mini naan
Deep fried fish haddock goujons or halloumi cheese
Minerals make healthy skin, strong bones and teeth
Mild vegetable curry with rice and mixed peppers
Chip shop style
Fibre helps the body digest food, it is found in vegetables, whole grains and fruit
Homemade focaccia, roast med vegetables
Mini vegetable samosas Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Dairy free apple crumble and cream / fresh fruit
Chicken and vegetable pie with shortcrust pastry lid Lentil and vegetable bake
St Peter’s 2-8 Week Commencing 22/03 Easter Term 2021
mild curry sauce, oven chips, mushy peas or beans Bread and butter Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Cornflake cakes / fresh fruit
Pork sausages Vegetarian sausages
Roast new potatoes, carrots and garden peas
Mashed potato, swede, carrots, spring greens and onion gravy
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings
Dairy free apricot, sultana and coconut flapjack / fresh fruit
Dairy free rice pudding and jam / fresh fruit
Ham carbonara sauce and chopped spaghetti
Fried scampi pieces or halloumi cheese
Pasta with a tomato basil sauce Cheesy homemade focaccia, roast Med vegetables Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Dairy free lemon drizzle cake / Fresh fruit
Oven chips, peas and beans Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Fresh fruit pieces in a jelly / fresh fruit
Dairy free lemon and blueberry cake / fresh fruit
Protein is found in meat, milk, fish and beans. It helps build our muscles A banana is 75% water and will float if you put it in a bowl of water!
Chilli con carne with rice and nachos Quorn and vegetable chilli with rice and nachos Tomato, carrot and cucumber sticks Jacket potato with hot or cold fillings Jam and coconut sponge / fresh fruit
Not all oranges are orange! A banana is not a fruit but a herb! There are 7000 different types of apples Strawberries have around 200 seeds on the outside of their skin A banana is 75% water and will float if you put it in a bowl of water!
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