Spreading a little festive cheer: each class visiting the Woodlands Residential Care Home with gifts, song & dance. Each child hand-made a Christmas Card for the residents, too.
FOES 400: a positive dilemma in PSHE: FOES donation of £400 per class, but how should the money be spent? Classes enjoyed choosing resources that would bring them happiness. Some groups of children, electing to 'club together' for greater purchasing power. Thank You, FOES - and for the additional £400 for outdoor resources.
Christmas Singalong (Part 1): children learnt to sing a range of popular Christmas songs which they sung and danced to, alongside their parents and interspersed with school musicians (pianists, drummers, singers, guitars) during our Interactive Christmas Singalong.
Christmas Mini-Performances (Part 2): classes were given creative ownership over what they performed. We had singing, dancing, joke-telling, gymnastics and acting.
On our class trip to Hamerton Zoo, Thistle Class have applied our knowledge of animals gained in Science and jungles in Geography to better understand which animals are adapted to which environment.
Bluebell class enjoyed a fantastic day out at Peterborough Cathedral learning about Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, the history of the monestry that became the Cathedral and the symbolic stone rebuses from the Tudor period. They all behaved brilliantly and should be very proud of themselves.