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• Friday 20 December 2024 Christmas Fun! Maple have enjoyed so many Christmas activities! From our whole school trip to the Panto to shopping at the Christmas fair we are feeling well and truly ready for the festive season!
• Friday 13 December 2024 Our Christmas Fair A huge thank you to the School Association who organised a wonderful Christmas Fair. We all had a wonderful time shopping for our gifts and have lots of bags to take home!
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Christmas Jumper Day 2024 We really enjoyed wearing our Christmas jumpers- we all looked fabulous!
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Making Clay Dinosaurs As part of our topic, we made clay dinosaurs. We all had a lovely time using the clay and we painted our finished models very carefully.
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Hadorable hedgehogs And here are the finished hedgehogs.... very cute I'm sure you'd agree.
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Hedgehog Making Oak Class have been thinking about the changing seasons and looked for signs of Autumn in the garden. They learnt how the changes in weather affects animals and how some animals hibernate and migrate to avoid the cold weather. They made printed hedgehogs and sculpted hedgehogs from clay.
• Thursday 12 December 2024 Colour Mixing We enjoyed learning how to mix primary colours to make the secondary colours.
• Monday 9 December 2024 Fairtrade Brownies In DT, to link with our Brazil topic, the children were set the task of preparing healthy, fairtrade chocolate brownies. They researched different recipes and from those selected the one they felt best fit the brief - some children chose to make their own subsitutions and additions. Once they had baked the brownies, they tasted and evaluated them using a star criterion grid. It was fair to say, there were mixed reviews!
• Thursday 21 November 2024 Year 3 / 4 Trip We had an amazing day at Compton Verney and we were so lucky with the weather! Linda took us on a journey through the woods to our Stone Age camp where we made wattle and daub fences by weaving willow, made stone age bread by grinding barley with rocks and mixing with oats and water, built shelters, explored a cave of artefacts and lit our own fires with flint and steel (not quite as the Stone Age people would have done it with flint and flint!). We had a great day getting a taste of what life would have been like all those thousands of years ago.
• Thursday 21 November 2024 Maple trip to Compton Verney We had an amazing day at Compton Verney and we were so lucky with the weather! Linda took us on a journey through the woods to our Stone Age camp where we made wattle and daub fences by weaving willow, made stone age bread by grinding barley with rocks and mixing with oats and water, built shelters, explored a cave or artefacts and lit our own fires with flint and steel (not quite as the Stone Age people would have done it with flint and flint!). We had a great day getting a taste of what life would have been like all those thousands of years ago.
• Wednesday 20 November 2024 Children in Need Year 3 had a really 'odd' day Friday in aid of Children in Need.
• Friday 15 November 2024 Remembrance Service On Monday 11th November, Year 6 lead a Remembrance Service where they read aloud In Flanders Fields by John McCrae. After this, the whole school took part in a two-minute silence to show their respects for the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms. Year 6 then visited the war memorial in the town where they laid a wreath and took more time to reflect.
• Wednesday 6 November 2024 Music Workshop Chestnut thoroughly enjoyed their music workshop this afternoon with Nick and Abbie from Cheltenham Festivals. We learned all about how saxophones are played and the differences between Nick's tenor saxophone and Abbie's soprano saxophone.
• Tuesday 5 November 2024 Mysteries of the Musiverse Maple thoroughly enjoyed their music workshop this afternoon with Nick and Abbie from Cheltenham Festivals. We learned all about how saxophones are played and the differences between Nick's tenor saxophone and Abbie's soprano saxophone.
• Monday 4 November 2024 Harvest Service The children did a fantastic job at leading our Harvest Service, I was really proud of all of their efforts, and how well they presented themselves; I could hear every word they said!
• Sunday 3 November 2024 Oak Palaeontolgists Last Thursday, Oak Class learnt about the work of palaeontologists. We watched a video of a palaeontologist at work and then used tools to painstakingly uncover hidden bones in our sandpit, piece together dinosaur skeletons and Year One thought about what tools might be useful for someone who discovers fossils. We had a lot of fun.
• Thursday 24 October 2024 Rocks and fossils The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Friday 18 October 2024 Fantastic Forces To enhance children's knowledge and understanding of forces they have been working scientifically to investigate friction, air resistance and water resistance, including their effects on objects.
• Thursday 17 October 2024 Maple Life Ed We had a great Life Education session with Tom. He taught us all about what’s inside our bodies and what we need to stay alive (water, oxygen, sleep, food and exercise). We then thought about the things that we needed to stay happy and healthy and the importance of time to connect with others. We met Harold the giraffe and went with him on a screen free day with his friends to the theme park. At the theme park, we blasted off on a rocket to space where we met a strange race of aliens where all of them were exactly the same. We decided that life is much better when everyone is unique and when we celebrate our differences!
• Tuesday 15 October 2024 Reception - 'Three' Walk Reception went on a 'three' walk last week to find as many representations of the number three as they could. Here are some of the threes they found. I think you'll agree that they did an amazing job!
• Saturday 12 October 2024 Oak Class Meet Harold the Giraffe Oak Class had a great time in the Life Education tent on Thursday afternoon. They learnt about how to stay healthy, what's hiding underneath our skin and got to meet Harold the Giraffe and give him advice about what to do if he feels sad.
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Life Education session Willow class thoroughly enjoyed their session in the Life Education tent. We loved meeting Harold again and found out how to keep ourselves healthy and happy.
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Making Fossils Our topic this term is 'Dinosaurs' and we have been finding out about the famous fossil hunter, Mary Anning. Her story inspired us to make our own fossils using salt dough and we were very proud of our results.
• Sunday 29 September 2024 Oak Class - Exploring the Garden We had a wonderful science afternoon exploring our garden. Year One really enjoyed showing the new Reception children around, and pointing out the features. To top it all, it wasn't raining!!
• Thursday 26 September 2024 Maple investigate rocks In Science, this week, we have been investigating the hardness of rocks. We scratched our rocks with a finger nail, a 2p coin and a nail and recorded our results using the Mohs’ scale. We then ordered our rocks from hardest to softest.
• Wednesday 25 September 2024 Trip to The Real Outdoor Xperience On Tuesday 24th September, Alder Class visited The Real Outdoor Xperience at South Cerney lakes where the children took part in kayaking and Sky- Line. During the Sky-Line the children had to negotiate an aerial adventure featuring 14 obstacles spread across two levels. The children were certainly made to challenge themselves and for many they had to conquer their fear of heights! In kayaking the children were set various challenges such as navigating their kayaks both forwards and backwards as well as trying to stand up and avoid falling in the water!
• Thursday 19 September 2024 Maple football with Rob Maple have made a fantastic start to their football lessons with Rob. This week we have been learning how to control the ball with different parts of our feet.
• Wednesday 18 September 2024 Welcome to Year 3!
• Wednesday 3 July 2024 Oak - Summer Sewing The children have been creating some very delicious looking ice creams using their embroidery skills. All the adults have been blown away by just how much perseverance and skill they demonstrated. I'm sure you'll agree that Oak Class did a fabulous job.
• Wednesday 19 June 2024 In the Net Year 4 had a super afternoon at Stow-on-the-Wold Primary School watching an interactive play, ‘In the Net’, presented by the Alter Ego Company. The play told the story of Dotty, a 7 year old girl, who got a new iPad for her birthday. She spent the day online making a new best friend called Jenny, posting information and pictures about herself, exploring websites and being unkind to a girl called Ava on ‘FriendsFace’.
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