Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Poppy Tesco Window Display

  Fri 09 Nov 2018 Mrs Harvey

  The whole school have been learning about the importance of poppies. Do you know why poppies have such a significant meaning?

  The Early Years children have used the poppies as a stimulus for some of their art work. They have created some stunning water colour poppy field pieces which are currently on display at Tesco for this weekend. If you get a chance to pop in they are well worth a look, alongside some of the other window displays that also reflect the importance of the poppy.

   

  A great job Early Years and Mrs Harvey was also impressed with your understanding around Rememberance Day as well as your Art work. 

  

• Great Fire of London

  Wed 07 Nov 2018

  Yesterday Year 2 were able to see a reenactment of the Great Fire of London! We used the town houses we made last week to create an old London town. Mr Quilter helped us to start the fire at the bakery in Pudding Lane. 

  We then watched as the fire spread across the houses. It was amazing to see the children's reaction and it seemed to really engage them in the topic. 

  

• Great Fire of London workshop

  Fri 02 Nov 2018

  Today Year 2 took part in a Great Fire of London drama workshop with the Treehouse Theatre Company. Starting out in Pudding Lane, the children dressed up and created their characters. They needed to make decisions as the fire progressed through London. The session really ignited the children’s imaginations and brought the events of 1666 to life.

  

• Year 4 Topic Launch

  Thu 01 Nov 2018 Miss Hanafin

  Yesterday Year Four launched their Greek topic. We had a busy day of learning a little bit about The Ancient Greeks – enough to get us asking lots of questions. We then made some Greek wreath crowns, learning about the different types of wreaths and who they would have been worn by. We also looked at the Greek alphabet and compared how the letter symbols have changed and how some of our English words are derived from Greek words – we will be doing more on this over the half term. In the afternoon, we looked at some Ancient Greek architecture. We focussed on the three different types of columns that were commonly used – can you remember the names? Throughout all of this, we did some Greek food tasting. We had Green Olives, Black Olives, Goats cheese, Feta cheese, pitta dipped in oil, honey and figs. We had to think about the flavours and the texture. It was a brilliant day and everyone is now very excited for the learning to follow as we develop our enquiry about The Ancient Greeks. We are also very excited for our Greek Day coming up where we will all be dressing up. I wonder what we will get up to then ….

  

• Your pumpkins look fab!!

  Wed 31 Oct 2018 Ms Rogers
  Here are a few photos of the wonderful array of pumpkins we have on our courtyard. They look absolutely super! Whilst out on duty with me this morning, Mrs Robinson said, 'Isn't it wonderful how our school community gets together to make these events more enjoyable for our children...what great community spirit!' I totally agree. You can see how proud the children are of each others' attempts and how creative they are too... some really lovely individual designs.

  

• Year 4 Sweet Shop writing

  Tue 30 Oct 2018 Miss Hanafin

  Last half term, the children in Year Four had a real sweet shop inspiration for the Scrumdiddlyumptious topic writing. We were set the task to create a persuasive advert that would convince even more people to shop in Ma Humbugs Old Fashioned Sweet Shop in Basingstoke. We read reviews online, looked at photos taken inside the shop, read the shop leaflet and adverts as well as interviewing customers that have been in the shop. We had to take careful notes and listen for key facts that would be most persuasive and interesting to our audience. Then we looked at lots of other persuasive adverts to see which features we would need to organise our own poster. To help us with our language, we did some role play sessions where we took customers on a tour around our mock up Ma Humbugs - we had some brilliant ideas. Finally, we started creating our own posters that would really catch the eye of our reader.  The children worked so incredibly hard on their writing and loved thinking of catchy phrases, questions and adverts to capture their reader. We were very proud of all the children in both classes - which is why they were awarded with a sweet treat at the end and a class window display of all their adverts was created. Each class also had an overall winner who were given a mega mix bag of sweets as well as having their writing displayed up in the shop itself. We are very grateful to Ma Humbugs for letting us use them as our inspiration and for donating such fantastic prizes. What a wonderful writing opportunity that was! We are very much looking forward to where our next writing challenge takes us. 

   

   

   

   

  

• KS2 First Hockey session

  Tue 30 Oct 2018 Miss Hanafin
  The children in Year 4, 5 and 6 have had their first session of their series of Hockey lessons this year. For some of our Year 4s, it was their first experience of Hockey and for some of our older children it was a chance to develop what they have previously learnt even further. There were lots of skills being worked on, communication being developed and of course lots of fun! It was definitely a chilly day which encouraged us to get our bodies moving and working even harder. We are looking forward to next week - don't forget your gloves, spare socks, hoodies and long PE trousers.

  

• End of term Golden Time fun at GBP

  Fri 19 Oct 2018 Ms Rogers

  To say a big thank you and well done to our children who have followed our whole school behaviour code brilliantly this term, we had our half termly Golden Time. As usual, our Teachers and LSAs planned a huge array of activities for the children to enjoy. It is always a lovely event as our children from all ages get the chance to play and experience something new together. Check out the photographs below.

   

  

• Year 5 and 6 French Day

  Wed 17 Oct 2018 Mrs Osborne

  Today, year 5 and 6 enjoyed a morning of tasting delicious French foods such as: baguettes, creme caramel, pain au chocolat, brie, croissants, quiche lorraine, brioche and even some red and white wine (grape juice!). As well as this, Miss Brookes came into school to cook croque monsieur with the children. 

   

  "French Day was yummy - I liked the pain au chocolate the best, and of course the wine too!" Aneeka.

  "I'm a very fussy eater but I liked the creme caramel and the wine!" Orla.

  "The food was delicious. The croque monsieur we made with Miss Brookes was fabulous darlings!" Sienna.

  "It was a wonderful experience." Abby.

   

  Take a look at the photos to see what we got up to...

   

   

  

• Year 6 Artist Visit

  Mon 15 Oct 2018 Mrs Osborne

  This afternoon, Year 6 had a visit from an artist named Liam and created some beautiful Eiffel Tower pictures using acrylic paint. 

  Liam used a step by step approach to layer colours and add depth and texture. The children created and mixed their own colour palettes, enabling them to make truly unique creations. 

  Take a look at the photos to see what they got up to...