Autumn Term 2

Hello Bloggers!!

It was an extremely eventful time last half term with so many successes to share!  We enjoyed Harvest Festival, learning about 'The Humble Apple' - a cross curricular topic, including learning about Sir Issac Newton and the discovery of gravity and the life cycle of an apple tree.  We also created our own Apple logo and learnt a song which we performed in assembly.

Eco-week was such a fun time in school especially as we got the opportunity to meet our Columbian visitors and open the Spanish library.  We were filmed by Notts TV and were on their news too!  We learnt all about the Dominican Republic and Cuba, including the differences in climate and landscape and writing a green monster story in our English lesson.

As well as these exciting events we also completed a safety questionnaire which had very positive results.  We were asked what keeps us safe at school, home and on the Internet and were able to offer lots of ideas.  Please see the website for a more detailed breakdown of the answers.

We really enjoyed our time with Commando Joe and he taught us some valuable lessons on fitness, fun and discipline.

This half term has already seen us design, make and evaluate a light up firework!  We used kitchen rolls, tissue paper and a battery operated circuit to create our colourful fireworks and then showed them in assembly. 

Thank you very much for the fantastic donations to Operation Christmas Child.  This year we managed to fill 13 boxes in Year Four! 

We are really looking forward to Friday and joining in the fun dressing up for Children In Need.  Remember the theme is 'Be Your Hero' so it's always nice to see people dressing up as a family member or someone they look up to.

Guitars with Mr Hull is still continuing this half term and we are thoroughly enjoying it!  We are learning new notes and chords and putting them together to create some great songs.

The Christmas Production this year is called 'Christmas is Forever' and is based on a James Bond theme.  We don't want to give too much away but the children will be learning the songs to the performance soon and we will be in touch with regards to costumes.