Tuesday 9th July saw Years R, 1 and 2 on their trip around the village. They all had a wonderful time exploring their surroundings. Years R and 1 saw Percy the park keeper, who had caught a fish. Year 2 found an old coin, which they were very excited about. They all said how they really enjoyed their team work activities, especially with the parachute. All classes enjoyed some time in the park on the zip wire, the trampoline where they found some frogs and playing on all the other equipment.

On Wednesday 10th July Year 6 had a fantastic time at Play2Day for their last trip in primary school. The trip was full of energy, playing tag and man hunt at the soft play centre. 

Year 5 also had a lovely trip around Manea on Thursday 11th July. They took maps and compasses and applied their geography skills and knowledge to find the physical and human features of the local area. They finished off by enjoying a picnic at the pit. 

Friday 7th June 2019

This week the children from KS1 enjoyed a coaching session from Simon Millward and Scott MacNeil. Scott and Simon are coaches of a local football team.

The children had an amazing time!

Thursday 7th February 

Year one had brilliantly performed their assembly this week. They told the story of 'How to Catch a Star' Oliver Jeffers.

They have been working over the past couple of weeks to perform this story and have been writing all about it in their literacy lessons. 

The children enjoyed sharing their story and all of their hard work with their visitors.

Miss Froggatt, led a whole school celebration assembly on Monday 28^th January to share a cheque presented by Mr Buttriss of Metalcraft Ltd in Chatteris who donated £250 to the school towards books for the library.

As part of their work on developing vocabulary, we have been raising money for our library to increase the variety of books to encourage reluctant readers to develop a keen interest in reading. 

 ‘The Metalcraft Community Fund was set up to support projects such as this therefore we are delighted to have been able to provide some funding. Given that more than 50% of our employees are from our local area it’s vital we invest in our potential employees of the future.’

A governor of the school has contacted many local businesses to ask for their support for this project and would also like to thank

City 1^st Truck tyre

Fengrain Ltd Marketing

Fowler

FJS Services

Red Skips

Hanson

Cook

The governing body would also like to inform any other company that would like to donate to the school for this valuable cause to please contact the school office on 01354 680293.

Thursday 13th December 2018

What a festive day we have had! 

On Thursday 13th December we had a trip to the church to watch the fabulous Year 1s retell the story of the Nativity. They were accompanied by Years 4, 5 and 6 with their brilliant singing! 

At lunchtime the children continued celebrating Christmas in the dinner hall, by having a Christmas lunch. They looked amazing in their christmas hats which they had made earlier in the week. We had reindeers, stars, christmas trees and snowman designs, to name but a few.

We then finished the day with a sing along version of the Nativity songs by Years R, 2 and 3. The children also sang a few traditional carols. The children looked wonderful singing amongst the christmas lights and decorations.

It was a really lovely day which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We cannot wait until we do it all again next year!

Friday 7th December 2018: Our Forest School sessions have begun and the children at our school are experiencing a range of activities where they are applying a range of skills.

Recently Mrs Goude has been training as a Forest School Leader and has been leading one of the groups in Cherry Class. Have a look below at some of the activities the children get up to!

Friday 23rd November

A week of sporting challenges for our teams.  On Wednesday Mr Tull took a team to a football tournament.  We were very proud of our work - narrowly missing first place.

On Friday a Tag Ruby event took place - organised by the Witchford partnership.  As we went to press they were just leaving with a wonderful team of volunteer parents supporting them - thank you for all your hard work!  

Mr Tull is also developing something new to share our sports work........ Watch this space!

Friday 16th November 2018

WOW! What a great day!

Today was Children in need and all the children came to school in their own clothes. Some children even dressed up!

The morning started with an assembly all about Children in Need. Shortly after the children all went on a ramble around the village. Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 went rambling around the woods whilst KS2 went rambling around the Manea Pit.

During the week we had also been looking at challenging sterotypes and looking at differences between families. All the work the children created was put up on display for a market place held at the end of the day.

We had many of our families come to view the lovely work and to buy cakes from the cake sale. The work was admired by many of you and we were lucky enough to sell out of all the cakes!  

Grafham Water

Wednesday 3rd October 10.30am:

The children and adults have all arrived safely and are excited about the adventures they will have over the next few days!!

Thursday 4th October 

The children and adults are having a lovely time on their adventures at Grafham Water. They have been sailing, biking and had fun building dens in the dark last night.  

Friday 5th October

All of the children have had another fabulous day and evening at Grafham Water. They can't wait to tell parents about what they have been up to. They plan to be home by the end of the school day. 

Friday 21st September 2018 

Year four have been working really hard on their Ancient Greece homework this week. Have a look at some of their amazing creations: 

Friday 13th July 2018: 
 

Pre-school are celebrating!

Thank you to everyone who returned our questionnaires. 

The children were asked 'What do you like best?'

"I love drawing"

"I like playing with my friends"

"I like being pre-school helper"

"The lego and I like everything"

"playing teachers with my friends"

The parents/carers were asked, "What do you think our pre-school does well?'

"Everything, its a lovely pre-school'

"Always having adults available to talk and feel rushed'

"Friendly and kind staff"

"Everything, but especially putting children at ease'

"Makes children feel welcome'

Friday 29th June 2018: Science week 

We have had an exciting week this week as we have celebrated Science within our school. It all started on Monday with an interesting assembly by Mr Rix, a Science teacher from Cromwell. 

He then taught a lesson on the heart to year six. 

Not forgetting some very exciting visitors that joined us Pine class this week. 

The whole school and pre-school followed a Science trail on the field which celebrated different scientists throughout time.

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Here she explains her creation: 

"This week for my homework, I tried to recreate a Willy Wonka chocolate factory. One of the machines is called the magic chocolate bar. In the tubes, the ingredients mix and they all  come out moulded on the conveyor belt. After that, they go on the magical 'ready table. On the magical ready table there are some gummy tic tacs they are basically tic tacs in gummy form. The second machine is called the everlasting gobstopper machine the ingredients go on the cool conveyor belt then they go in the machine and on top the magic ingredient A.K.A glitter. They all mix and get wrapped. Then they go on the magical ready table. Next I made his office. He has a golden chair and a desk,. On the desk, there is the golden ticket for Charlie Bucket. Also he has laptop and a cup of tea. Mr Wonka has a testing table for him to try, t  has chocolate and sweets on it. Last but not least, there are signs for the Oompa Loompas to get the orders ready. I'm really proud of my work". 

Friday 11^th May 2018:

WOW! What an amazing opportunity for our children that all your votes enabled to happen. Thank you to everyone who voted so that our children could have the animal encounter they had this morning. A special thank you as well to Mrs Cooke for all your hard work in organising this for us. Look at our photos to see the amazing creatures we saw – spot the one that is sat on Mrs Stevens!

Thursday 29th March 2018

Earlier this week our school choir attended the 'Schools Make Music' concert. This is a concert where some of the schools in our area get together with Cromwell Community College to put on an evening of music. 

The evening went really well and our children sang unaccompanied amazingly! The children sang two traditional songs from a different culture. They really made the members of staff who were with them very proud!

FRIDAY 23rd MARCH - SPORT's RELIEF

This Friday 23rd March the whole school, including Pre-School took part in a circuits skills session, learning different ways to get fit. This was to celebrate and fund raise for Sport's Relief that is currently taking place nationwide. Many thanks for all of your donations!

We also saw the arrival of our new football kit. We used it for the first time in our 8 a-side football tournament this week. Please see our sport's page for further details about the tournament!

16th March 2018

This week we celebrated all of our Forest School work with a marketplace. Lots of parents and children came to see all the wonderful products, writing and other projects.

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On Thursday, many schools from across the country attempted to break a world record! 

197 stackers took part throughout the day. Each class had to stack for half an hour non- stop in order to qualify. Manea Community Primary School had one of the highest numbers of stackers in the country!

Take a look below!

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The children in Year 1 and Year 2 were visited by Mr Oxford from the RNLI team. They learnt about water safety and the role of the RNLI team, just in time for the school holidays. One parent said how much their son enjoyed it, telling them facts that they didn't know.

6th July 2017

Inter-village sports tournament 

On Thursday 6th July, 9 children from each class in KS2 travelled to Lionel Walden Primary school to take part in the inter-village sports event. They participated in a range of activities including short distance running, long distance running, sack races and the class egg and spoon race. Throughout the event, the children's behaviour was outstanding and they were a real credit to our school. 

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A week of change for our year 6 children.  Visits to Witchford, Neale Wade and Cromwell have taken place this week.  We wish all the children well in their new venture and enjoy finding out their thoughts on their new schools.

'it was great'

'I made two new friends already!'

'I feel much better now about September'

Year 6 are currently in the process of writing their memories from Manea School.  Look out for them soon on the website!

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The visit from the Life Bus.  The children all took part in learning through the life bus from Cambridgeshire County Council. The younger children met Harold the giraffe who helped them find out how to keep healthy and the older children investigated in more depth how to look after themselves.  This is a wonderful opportunity that we have every other year.

Comments from Key Stage one children:   

'Wow! I loved learning in the bus'

'Harold was amazing, he taught us lots'

'I now know what to do to look after myself!'

We would like to thank all connected for their hard work.

29.6.17

This evening two groups of children attended a very special event held at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. The children were from Elm Class and Fir Class and were invited to celebrate their efforts in filmmaking for the Young People's Film Festival. The group from year 5 walked away with a commendation for their silent movie 'A Sporty Disaster'. Although Year one did not come away with a prize, we are extremely proud of what they were able to achieve. The Children all enjoyed dressing up for the 'Oscar' style evening and are looking forward to entering again next year. 

27.6.17

Key Stage 2 sports day - what a wonderful event.  The children all worked very hard in their races and supported each other with gusto!  The audience of Key Stage 1 children cheered on and even took part when they caught the rocket javelin in the year 6 event!

We would like to congratulate all the children and also thank all the parents/carers for their support.

The event finished with an ice-cream each, donated to the school - just before the rain started!

22nd and 26th June

A fantastic whole school production!  A Disney Delight!  The children performed sketches to represent a variety of films by Disney - Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, Moana, Annie, Peter Pan, Aladdin, Jungle Book and of course a firm favourite... Frozen!

We were extremely proud of how hard the children worked in order to create their class masterpieces and enjoyed celebrating with their families.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that came to support the children.

12th June 2017: This week we found out that we raised a whopping £854.83 for the NSPCC. The children have enjoyed the assemblies and carrying out their class challenges.  Thank you for your wonderful work!

Friday 24/03/17

Today we celebrated Red Nose Day. The theme for the day was wear red or dress up as your favourite nose. Take a look at some of our children all dressed up.

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If you look through issue 53 of Manea Matters you will find an article written by our Forest School Leader (Mr Lenton).

Over the last couple of weeks Mr Lenton worked with each class of the school. Each class were treated to a fire circle and each class did different things.

Pine class: Pine class were able to toast marshmallows over the fire and discussed all the things that fire could be used for.

Elm Class: Elm class set fire to some of the houses they had made to try and understand why the fire spread so quickly during the Great Fire of London.

Beech Class: Year two used the fire as a stimulus to write different types of sentences.

Willow class: Willow class used the fire as a stimulus to their workbooks on fire facts.

Ash class: Ash class used the fires as a stimulus for writing about making smores.

Fir Class: Fir class held their fire during Science week and looked at the different ways things can change when using fire.

Oak Class: Year six used their fire time as a stimulus for writing.

Next time we will be looking at tool work! 

Wednesday 1st March 2017

Girl's football tournament

Today we had a group of our girls taking part in the football tournament.

We worked as a team watching other games to help us with ours. Then we took it in turns to defend the goal and attack. We enjoyed taking part in the tournament and working together. We had lots of fun. See our pictures below

The Sea of Tranquillity

I really enjoyed doing the assembly. My favourite part was when we did the giants in slow motion. When my parents saw my work they were very proud of me and very happy that I’m getting taught things that help my education. The Sea Of Tranquillity really was an amazing book and it was fun to tell it and put actions to it.

Our Class Assembly

My favourite part about the ’Sea of Tranquillity’ production was taking part and being there to have fun and show off what I can do.

      My parents were proud of how much I have achieved and of how much my handwriting has improved. By the look on their faces I could tell that they were astounded. My Mum said,

“I am proud to see how well you do when you’re at school”.

Oak Class Assembly

I was over the moon at how ‘The Sea of Tranquillity’ performance went. I really enjoyed performing to the entire school and the parents of Oak Class. It was a wonderful assembly and it went extremely well.

Going back through my books I realised just how much work I have done and learned in just over one term. A piece of work I am relay proud of is the class rules that we made right at the start of the year.

02/12/16

This week we had a special visitor for our KS1 classes. We were joined by Heart Radio on Monday afternoon to record us singing for their popular 'Sleeps till Santa' feature. Both years one and two took part in the festivities. We are number  six and will be on the air on the 19th December in the morning during their breakfast show with Kev and Ros. 

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What a wonderful start to the new half term.  

On Saturday the 29th October we had many different spooky activities within our village.  The local cafe worked with us carving pumpkins which were then taken down to the woods to begin the spooky walk.  At 6.30 the celebrations continued.  A walk into the woods took place led by Belinda.  Lots of magical things happened....... skeletons dancing in the school field, spooky hula hooping and other circus skills took place. There were even some wonderful, tasty, toasted marshmallows to enjoy.  All who came along agreed that it was a fantastic experience.  The Friends of Manea School and Preschool then held a disco in the village hall with the best dressed child and adult being awarded prizes.  Thank you to all that supported us.

The school week then began with exciting tasks in each class.  The year Six class had a special challenge........ BIKEABILITY.  What a fantastic learning experience which will provide the children with essential knowledge of how to ride their bikes on the roads as they get older.  Children in Year Six commented that it was an 'excellent experience', 'we learnt lots', 'we know how to keep safe' and all said that it was a valuable experience.  Well done everyone.

OUR RESIDENTIAL TRIP SEPTEMBER 2016

A group of 30 children and 4 adults travelled to Condover Hall last Wednesday and returned two days later. We had an amazing time getting involved in all the activities. See what we got up to below. 

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What a week this has been!

Pine Class have had their first full time week in school and are settling in well. As part of getting to know their new school they have been on a hunt around their environment to find the characters from their first reading books.

23rd and 24th June 2016 OUR PRODUCTION

'The Dazzling Decades of Queen Elizabeth II'

The children performed the show on four occasions and dazzled the audience with their acting, singing and dancing skills. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and from all the comments I received from the audience they did too.

Just not too sure about the odd looking girl group in the middle of the performance!

17th June 2016

This week, Key Stage two, Key Stage one and Foundation Stage  have been working on their re-designed planters. They have linked it to the work in the classroom and the upcoming summer production.

Reception’s theme is “Jungle Book”-so we have planted lots of ferns, grasses and even cabbages.

Year one’s theme is the 90’- so we used the colours from the Toy Story logo to create our own version of it using various plants.

Year two’s theme is Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, so we have lots of different colour plants to show all of the colours of the coat.

Year three’s theme this time is “Dig for Victory” - so we have planted lots of different vegetables. The theme reflects the decades we are showcasing in the school production next week.

Year four: the theme of our planter is ‘Our house’. We are learning this song by Madness for our production. It was released in 1982 and we think it’s brilliant! Mrs Boardman made us a wooden house to complete our scene and it’s in the ‘middle of our street’.

Year five have designed their planter as a representation of The Union Jack. We have linked it to our work within the summer production and our maths scaling project.

Year six: our planter is designed with the 1950’s in mind. We have based it on our production “Grease the musical”. We are awaiting some 1950’s décor to complete our masterpiece.

10^th June 2016 - COOKS ON THE MOVE

The children have all been busy baking and cooking this week with two lovely ladies from ‘Cooks On The Move’.

Year R made delightful peach cup cakes

Year 1 made tasty pizzas

Year 2 made focaccia bread which we could see all the holes we made

Year 3 made delicious fruit crumbles

Year 4 made yummy fruit scones

And Years 5 and 6 made mouth-watering shortbread

Have a look at some of our photos.

26^th May 2016

OUR WORLD BOOK DAY.

We had a great assembly this morning showing off our character costumes from books we enjoy. We even played ‘Where’s Wally’!

Have a look at the photos below and see if you can work out which characters we are.

20^th May 2016

Year three have developed their outdoor learning area by planting plants into their tyres. They used the skills they have learned in their maths lessons to accurately measure the size of the space between each plant and the amount of soil required.

Year one experienced working outside with a fire today. They made and cooked some bread using the burning embers.

13.5.16

THE END OF KS2 SATs.

The children in year six have completed their tests and have enjoyed an afternoon of den building followed by a day of relaxing in pyjamas today! They enjoyed sharing breakfast together each day before the tests. We are very proud of how well all the children in year six have managed the week - well done!

Year four and year one have been to the woods as well as year six this week. Have a look at some of our pictures.

29.4.2016 OUR NEW LIBRARY

Please look at the photos below which show how well our new library is developing. The neon sign arrived and was displayed for the first time yesterday. Please come and see it. We have some new crates to keep our books in, some new stools to sit upon and the shelves have been painted and restored to put our books onto. There is still some work to be done before it is complete but we are really pleased with the progress and thank all the people who have worked so hard to make it the best it can be for the children.

Friday 29^th April 2016

Mr Lenton and a team of willing volunteers and staff have been den building with the children who achieved 100% attendance in the Spring Term. I am sure you can tell from the photos how much they have enjoyed the experience and how well they worked together.

Friday 15^th April: Science Week One

Year R: For the first week of our science investigations, Pine class have worked very hard. We have thought about ways of keeping the chicks eggs safe before they hatch. We created lots of inventions to show you all at the market place next Thursday.

Year 1: We have planned an investigation in our science week. We are exploring different materials that Humpty Dumpty could use to protect himself when he was sat on the wall should he fall. We are excited about carrying out the experiments next week and sharing our results with you at our science market place.

Year 2: We have looked at temperature for a little penguin who didn't like the cold and wanted a coat to keep him warm. We used three different cups and put hot water in them to see which would keep the water warmer.

Year 3: During this week in science we have enjoyed the ‘Let’s Talk Science’ discussions and have visited the chicks. We discussed how they have grown, hatching and looked at the different size and colours. We have started talking about eggs and their structure too. We shall be planning an investigation to see if eggs float.

Year 4: We have started by linking our science with maths to find out ‘Are the tallest eggs are the heaviest?’

We have also visited the hatched chicks, written Haiku poems and investigated which material insulates the eggs the best. For next week we are thinking of our own egg investigation.

Year 5: Eggs!

How strong is an eggshell? We have been investigating this.

What is the purpose of an eggshell? We are researching this.

What material would be ideal to replace the shell material? We are investigating this.

We plan and carry out investigations to answer these questions.

Year 6: This week we have been looking at the different forces and how they affect our everyday lives. We completed an investigation on gravity and wrote up a scientific investigation using all the key vocabulary. Next week our task is extremely exciting. We will be making parachutes for birds' eggs in order to protect them if they fall out of a nest. We will have to create a design that will hold the egg safely and build up enough air resistance in order to help the egg safely land on the ground.

Wednesday 23^rd March 2016.

This has been a short week which has been full of fun learning activities taking place. The children in KS2 received a letter from the RSPB today asking for their help to solve a problem as the birds had no trees to lay their eggs. Please see the class pages for more information.

Today we came to school with Mad Hair in aid of raising funds for our school library. We looked at all the children in our assembly a prize was presented to a child from each class with the ‘wackiest’ hair, we raised £142.60. In addition to the mad hair all the eggs you kindly donated were given to the lucky winners whose names were pulled out of the raffle box we raised a fantastic £175.30. Thank you to everyone who donated eggs.

A group of 16 children took part in the ‘Schools Make Music’ concert last night. They were brilliant and I was so proud of them all. They had worked hard all day rehearsing with the other schools – Cromwell Community College, Benwick, Lionel Walden, Kingsfield and Glebelands.

Friday 18^th March 2016

An extra special week for our class assemblies with two taking place…….

On Wednesday we had a fantastic assembly performed by Elm Class.  It was entitled ‘Down The Back Of The Chair’

The children were very excited about performing and discussed afterwards how they enjoyed it:

'We performed down the back of the chair and it was fantastic.'

'I thought we were outstanding!'

'It was cool.'  

'My favourite part was when I said thank you for coming at the end.'

Willow Class then had their performance on Thursday with ‘How To Grow A Dinosaur’.  The class were asked to write a review after the assembly – find out in their own words……

This week we performed our class assembly called ‘How to grow a Dinosaur’ to our family and friends.  We felt eager to perform our play.  We had to change our voices.  We made the people laugh with our Mum voices.  My favourite part of the story was when we changed our voices to become different characters.    

Willow class have had a fantastic week.  We performed our class assembly called ‘How to grow a dinosaur’.  We felt excited because we had to perform it to our family and the rest of the school.  We used a medium voice for Albie, a low voice for the dinosaurs and a high voice for Mum.  We made the audience giggle when we did our Mum voice.  Our favourite part was when the pterodactyl picked us up, up, up into the air.

Friday 11th March 2016

Please click on the link below to read a letter thanking you all for the contributions you made to the schools in Yorkshire affected by the flooding on Boxing Day 2015. The letter was shared with the children in today's assembly.

Thursday 3rd March 2016

Pine class assembly. It was the turn of our youngest class to present their stroy to their parents and carers. They spoke really well and remembered all the actions for the dinosaurs. Here is the story they told.

'Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus'

There’s a quake and a quiver and a rumbling sound,

It makes you shiver it’s a thundery sound.

Shake, Shake, shudder near the sludgy old swamp,

The dinosaurs are coming get ready to romp.

Donk, Donk, Donk here’s triceratops,

Jumping up and down doing dinosaur hops.

He wears three horns on his big bony head,

And blunders along with a bomp bomp tread.

Shake, Shake, shudder near the sludgy old swamp,

The dinosaurs are coming get ready to romp.

Pteradactyl dives with a swift, sharp swoop, 

He shrieks out an eeeek as he swirls in a loop.

Brontosaurus stops for a slushy, mushy snack,

His tail starts swinging with a thwack, thwack, thwack.

Shake, Shake, shudder near the sludgy old swamp,

The dinosaurs are coming get ready to romp.

ROAR, ROAR, ROAR,

What’s making that sound?

The dinosaurs stop and there’s silence around.

ROAR, ROAR, ROAR, now we’re shivering with fright,

What can make a noise like that in the night?

Tyrannosaurus crashes in gnashing his jaws,

WALLOP on the group go his big back claws.

He’s huge and he’s heavy but all he wants to do,

Is to join in the romp – So why don’t you?

Shake, Shake, shudder near the sludgy old swamp,

Everybody’s doing the dinosaur romp.

But soon all the rompers grow sleepy and slow,

The rumpus calms down and the sound drops low.

The rompers drift together and tumble in a heap,

Till finally the dinosaurs are all fast asleep.

And now the only noise in the deep of the night is…..

Dinosaur-snoring till the next day’s light.

Friday 26th February 2016

Year Five took part in a film day this week.

Here is what they did and why.

Our Filming Experience

On Tuesday we had an important visitor. His name was Mr Thomson. He helped us learn to film and edit. Also he showed us examples of short (I minute long) movies which helped us a lot.

With the help of Mr Thomson, we are working towards a mini movie for the film festival. We are all really nervous but extremely excited. The maximum time for entries is June 1^st 2016. Everyone hopes that it will go well.

During the day our editing skills improved, thanks to Mr T. We were very proud of our work. The films turned out amazing. It was an experience that no-one would want to forget.

There are five different shots:

• A long shot is a shot to see part of the setting and the character.
• A mid-shot is from the middle of a body.
• An established shot is a shot from the whole of the setting and all of the character.
• A close up is a shot of the neck and up.
• An extreme close up is a shot focussing on only one thing.

The genres of film are endless. The two main film ideas are horror and romance. Mr Thomson was the one to show us three examples. They were all silent movies but all with different genres.

Ash class assembly 25^th February 2016

Row Row and off we go, singing our Viking song.

Along the seas, across the land we travel all day long.

Beard growers,

Gruesome grinners,

Eye twitchers,

Teeth grinders,

Muscle flexors,

Deep growlers.

Row Row and off we go, singing our Viking song.

Along the seas, across the land we travel all day long.

Meat rippers,  

Bone crunchers

Diet breakers

Blood spitters

Ale slurpers  

Gas burpers.

Row Row and off we go, singing our Viking song.

Along the seas, across the land we travel all day long.

Land invaders, 

Glass smashers

Building destroyers

Bible takers,

Ship sailors,

Church burners,

Row Row and off we go, singing our Viking song.

Along the seas, across the land we travel all day long.

Fierce fighters,

Sword strikers,

Bow and arrow aimers,

Spear slingers,

Body shielders,

Scottish slayers

Thursday 11th February 2016

THE BEAR SNORES ON

Our year two class presented the story about a Bear who snores on whilst other animals come into his cave and have fun. This was their class assembly this morning and it was lovely to see so many adults there to come and see it. Here is what some of the children's parents and carers had to say about it.

'It was all brilliant but the actions and their facial expressions were the best.'

'All the children were so enthusiastic and you could tell by their faces they loved the story.'

'I loved the actions especially the snoring.'

'It was fabulous.'

Friday 5th February 2016

Our school council representatives found out what learning has taken place this week in our school. Here is what they found out.

In year six the children developed their multiplication skills in their maths lessons. They enjoyed learning about debates by presenting arguments and have written horror stories in Literacy. Their grammar work focussed on adjectival phrases and clauses.

The children in year five enjoyed playing 'Hit The Button' in maths learning about the relationship between multiplication and division facts. They developed their map reading skills in Geography and researched some of the countries they found. Their art work included shading their drawings of inanimate objects. The children led our class assembly yesterday with a poem, 'Words' by Michael Rosen, which they recited. This poem was used to help them create 'Happy' poems using Michael's structure of a poem.

Year four children enjoyed reading paragraphs about historical settings and then drawing the image these paragraphs created in their minds. They also learned about the Christian day - Ash Wednesday. They found out that the Vicar burned the bottom of a palm leaf which turned into ashes. The Vicar would put his thumb in the ashes and draw a cross on the forehead of the person. The cross represents saying sorry to God for the bad things over the year.

Vikings and longships was the focus of the history being studied in year three. They say that they have built longships and written poems to visualise the scenes. They practiced their shooting skills in Netball during their PE lessons. The outdoor classroom was the base used to develop their multiplication skills by throwing the bean bags to the answers and then building arrays to show their working out. The children enjoyed learning the recorder in their music lesson.

Year two children joined up their writing both in their handwriting lessons and in their other writing work. They  worked on making tests fair in science and have written stories which have included using speech marks in their Literacy work.

This week in year one we have been learning how to double using a bead string. Mrs Stevens also came in to join in the fun! We worked together to find out the best way to use a bead string to help us. We had some really lovely explanations about what doubling really means. Some of us even doubled the number 20!

An egg arrived in year R this week with some mysterious footprints leading away from it. The children believe they belong to a dinosaur. They went to the woods today to make some nests in case the dinosaur wants to lay any more.

Friday 29th January 2016

Year one have been scientists today and have been experimenting to find out how to help the Gingerbread Man. The buzz of learning was seen as soon as you entered the classroom with your scientist ID badge on. The children tested materials to see what would keep the Gingerbread Man dry after finding out that if he got wet then he went all soggy. The children also made boats for him to ride across the river and see which one would sale the quickest. Please look at our photos below.

Friday 29th January 2016

We were really impressed with the year six assembly yesterday and wanted you all to be able to see what they had written and presented to us.

Saxon Invasion

Roman soldiers yawning with delectation,

Faces of pride for the entire nation.

Stirring, shovelling, saliva drips 

As they engulf the succulent beef.

Droopy eyes lay on the pillow,

On wooden beds made out of willow.

Little do they know what’s coming…

Urgent eyes flicker in apprehension,

They plan their attack for world domination.

Saxons sneak delicately in,

Ready to face the ultimate grim.

Swords will swipe, blood will be spilled.

The fields will turn red, their job is fulfilled.

Grimacing faces that send shivers up spines,

Hurtle in and create mayhem in subdued villages.

Villainous Saxon swords penetrate torsos. 

Horses are mounted, blood is shed.

There is no hope for the Romans.

Urgent eyes flicker in apprehension,

They plan their attack for world domination.

Saxons sneak delicately in,

Ready to face the ultimate grim.

Swords will swipe, blood will be spilled.

The fields will turn red, their job is fulfilled.

Victorious winners look over new land,

Clearing up evidence of the unruly battle.

Everything built has been demolished,

Saxons will carefully create their new paradise.

The Germanic tribe travelled so far,

Now they are to savour their reward!

Urgent eyes flicker in apprehension,

They plan their attack for world domination.

Vikings sneak delicately in,

Ready to face the ultimate grim.

Swords will swipe, blood will be spilt.

The fields will turn red their job is fulfilled.

Oak class 2016

22nd January 2016

We have had a fantastic week celebrating our attendance.  The children who achieved 100% attendance during the Autumn term took part in a circus skills workshop.

Sessions took place throughout the day where we experienced different activities.  One of our favourites was the unicycle - this took great skill and was very enjoyable.

We can't wait for the next celebration event.

Thursday 14th January 2016

I have had the pleasure of meeting a six year old Palaeontologist this morning in Beech Class. The children wrote a number of questions before Jack arrived in the classroom and then when he came in they asked him them.

The children have used what they found out to help with their writing. Here are some quotes from the children about their experience this morning.

‘Jack was interesting because I wanted to learn about dinosaurs. I found out that Jack likes spaghetti on toast.’

‘I like him because he was silly and funny.’

‘Jack was funny and I really liked it because I have never seen Jack before.’