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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
As a school we plan out the themes and areas we want to explore in collective worship for the year but this term I have changed this slightly. I’ve been exploring with children their ideas about things they would like to explore and during this week we discussed the effects of littering because it is something they raised. We discussed the impact of plastic in particular in the environment and then that we can each carry this into action, if each of us is more careful with rubbish then we would have no litter on our site. This is an important principle of our collection worship that have discussed something together, the children leave with something to consider. In Class 3, two children really took this forward and wanted to do some litter picking to clear our site – I gave them some equipment and they diligently made a difference!
Class 2 really enjoyed their trip on Tuesday to SeaCity museum in Southampton where they learned all about the Titanic. They have already learned a lot in class so could apply their understanding to the things they saw. They had a couple of workshops with centre staff who got them to explore artefacts and hands on activities about the ship. They also looked at all the exhibits, such as in the pictures above. Today in school they had a ‘Titanic Day’ which meant they could re-enact much of what they have understood. This experiential learning is a key part of their historical skills and how they start to understand different periods in time, outside of their lifetime, and start to build a sense of chronology about the past.
There was huge excitement earlier in the week when it snowed. The children enjoyed running around outside whilst flakes came down; all assuming deep snow drifts would soon form. Of course they didn’t but the light flurry we had later that evening lasted for a few days and was still a point of stimulus and interest for many. Class 1 in particular have also been exploring ice and have left containers out overnight to see what shapes the water freezes into!
Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all had a good Christmas break. It has definitely felt a bit of a shock returning to school so early in January, perhaps the wet, dark mornings have made this feel worse – not that this has stopped the children excitedly sharing stories of presents, elves and visits by Father Christmas!
The rain was torrential yesterday, I’m sure many of you had an awkward journey home, at least the weather is reported to be getting much colder next week so hopefully this will bring a break from the relentless rain of the last few weeks – coats, hats and gloves definitely needed next week!