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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
A lovely moment of excitement this week was that I discovered our camera bird box had a family of blue tits! In assembly, children watched the live feed as the adults were feeding their 9 babies. We didn’t have any nesting birds last year as bumble bees used the box instead so I didn’t think anything would use it again – but I was wrong! Lots of the children also enjoyed watching the adults enter and leave the box at playtimes. The babies will have fledged by the time we return after half term but we’ll keep checking the box in case of a second clutch.
The warm weather has brought more sustained use of our school field so I have reintroduced football into the range of play children can choose. I’ve done this a little differently this year as some of our younger school councillors had shared that some younger children don’t always feel confident on the field when older children are playing big football games. I have therefore talked to the children about setting up games with agreed boundaries so play doesn’t drift off their ‘pitch’ areas. We’ve also set up multiple pitches across the field but leaving large areas free for other games. The children have managed this really well with lots of football games of mixed ages taking place whilst other areas are used for running, jumping and just sitting around! An important change initiated by our school council for the benefit of all.
Following the Bank Holiday for the Coronation on Monday, when children returned to school on Tuesday we got them involved in our own ‘big help out’. Across all classes, children chose from a list of 12 jobs. These groups, formed from across the year groups and an adult, then worked together for around 30mins. This worked really well and the children were amazing in how hard they worked. I hope they told you about what they did when they got home. Jobs included weeding, washing benches, litter picking, dead heading, tying in the willow tunnel and others (photos above). Throughout, older children helped younger ones do the job and supported them. One of class 4 worked out that all of the children each doing 30mins worked out as 4 whole days worth of work. It was so successful, we will definitely do this again sometime!
We have been exploring the approaching Coronation of King Charles III in assemblies this week which culminated in our celebration yesterday. We all gathered on the bank, at the front of the school with bunting and flags and had a formal toast to the King! This was then followed by a special cake which Mrs White had kindly baked and they looked amazing.