We have had a very busy week back at school! We have started learning about our new topic ‘Fire’ by looking at all the homework that the children have done so far. Lots of the children have found out some very interesting facts about fire, which made a good start to the investigations we shall be doing over the coming weeks. This week our learning has focused around Fireworks and Bonfire Night, building up to our school firework display on Friday. Other than learning in class, we have lots of out of classroom experiences this week…
On Monday we had a special assembly led by three people from the British Legion who taught us all about Remembrance Day and why it is important to wear a poppy. We also had our first gymnastics session with two teachers from Stoke City who we had for PE before half term. The children thoroughly enjoyed balancing in all sorts of different ways.
On Wednesday we took our Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes to the church to be blessed. We had a lovely service led by Katherine from Dovedale House and we learned that our shoe boxes are sent to countries all around the world to children. She told us that on a visit to Romania she met some children who had received shoe boxes for Christmas and they were so precious to them that they had kept the empty shoe boxes, whereas here we would probably throw a box away.
On Thursday the children had their photographs taken in the school grounds. It was a beautiful sunny and warm day in the Autumn sunshine, so the photographs should look fantastic! We are all looking forward to seeing the photos when they are developed.
On Friday afternoon we started Forest Schools again. In this weeks session we talked about the migration of birds, and how some birds decide to stay here for the winter even though there isn’t much food around for them. To help the birds we decided to make some very fatty treats for them. You can see what we have been up to in the photos below! We got very sticky mixing all the ingredients together to make our bird feeders – the ingredients are… lard, cheese, bread, seeds and dried fruit. We all took a bird feeder home to put in our gardens. We talked about how it is important to keep feeding the birds over the winter as they will get used to visiting the same gardens and make special journeys because they remember where all the best bird feeders are.
Finally, most of the children (and teachers) are excited about the school firework display on Friday night. If Mrs Greenwood manages to get some good photographs of the fireworks then she will put them in the blog next week.
Above: Taking the shoe boxes to church for our Operation Christmas Child service and all the boxes lined up ready to be collected and distributed to children around the world.
Below: Friday afternoon’s Forest Schools session with Ducks Class. First we listened and looked for birds and empty birds nests before making our bird feeders.
Robins Class 