Today in Worship we looked again at the story of the Good Smaritan. So that we could help some one who was injured we had great fun practising our bandaging skills. We discussed what we thought showing compassion was all about and how we felt that it was close to kindness. We all saw how … Continue reading
Over the the last three weeks Art Club has been creating art by using the bits and pieces that we found just lying on our beach. We had great fun going to the beach to collect our materials. Next we created our background then we added our finds. The results are amazing and we are … Continue reading
Our Value of the term is Respect. The whole school has been learning exactly what this means and we have had discussions where children have discussed what this value actually means to them in their lives. Every Class created a respect piece of work to explain to others exactly what respect is. The result is … Continue reading
In Year 3 today we had a brilliant creative time. We wrote instructions, maps and guides so that Father Christmas could find us and deliver our presents regardless of whether or not we had a chimney. Then we designed and created our own unique Christmas cards. Finally we decorated glass jars to turn them into … Continue reading
All week in Year 3 we have been reading The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. It has been great fun and we have rewritten the story from the Grinch’s view point, attempted Grinch maths and created peppermint Grinch faces. It has been really good fun and had helped us to think about the real meaning of … Continue reading
As we have our own plinth arriving next week we thought we would go out and discover some of the others. These plinths are dotted around Folkestone we managed to see 6 of the 14 in an hour!! Although we were moving pretty quickly our theme was sloths. Everyone had a Sloth and we used … Continue reading
Today the new Owls spent time in Ducklings as part of their transition. We looked at the book ‘Perfectly Norman’ about a boy who was special because he grew wings! We talked about what made each of us special and did some amazing writing. We had a super playtime riding bikes and scooters and at … Continue reading
This afternoon the whole of class five with Mrs Reeve, Mrs O’Callaghan and Mrs Paterson walked to the Harvey Grammar School to join Harcourt, Elham, St Peters, Sandgate and Folkestone Primary Academy in a Sing Up Day. We sang songs that we had learnt and listened to other schools perform, including the Harvey Boys. The … Continue reading
Today a new group of Year 6s went to Pelham House to read to the residents. The pupils really enjoyed reading to the residents and the residents enjoyed being read to. Tiki had a really good time as she loves everyone there and everyone is always so pleased to see her.
Today we awarded our first lot of kindness certificates. As part of our 40 acts of generosity for Lent these children wrote super lists telling us what they were grateful for. These can be seen on an earlier blog.
Owls had lots of fun completing a range of practical activities on repeating patterns. I…
This week in Science we have been thinking about waterproof materials. On Thursday, Owls received…
This week in social club we have made Christmas glitter plants. The children loved using…
Today the children acted out instructions for being an explorer. As a class, we decided…
