Blog Author: C. Hayward

This afternoon with one of our parent helpers, we had a quick tidy up of the outdoor classroom, weeding, labelling the vegetable beds and watering. We also found quite a lot of minibeasts enjoying our outdoor space! 
 

We have just read about a terrifying creature in our Iron Man story, the Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon. During our Whole Class Reading session today, we used our visualisation skills to draw what we imagine the creature to look like, using evidence from the text. 
 

With all of the warm, sunny and dry weather we have had recently, it is important we water our newly planted fruit and vegetables. 
 

Today we had our afternoon brain break outside on the Trim Trail, to make the most of this beautiful weather. 
 

Our school value this half term is ‘compassion’. We talked about how St Maximilian Kolbe showed this during his life helping the poor and sick. We also shared two Bible stories showing compassion; The Good Samaritan and Jesus helps the leper. 

Before the rain started, we enjoyed planting new vegetables in their new beds. We carried on with this on Friday morning when the weather was better! We are looking forward to watching them grow and harvesting to use with our school meals. 
 

Our Geography topic this half term is a local study, so this morning we completed a transport survey of how people travel to Great Haywood. 

This week in computing, we have been using closed questions with an answer of only ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to sort objects using a branching database. We practised with different objects such as food or plants. Our challenge was to sort at least 8 dinosaurs, we had to look very carefully at their features…

A huge well done to every member of Class 3 who put on a spectacular performance of their play on Monday and again twice on Tuesday! You sang beautifully and made everyone so proud, great acting Class 3! 
 

Today a specialist football coach came in to work with just the Class 3 girls. They played lots of different games whilst developing their passing and dribbling skills. 

Today we re-enacted the Last Supper. We talked about what the bread and wine represents and the words Jesus used with the disciples as we broke bread with our friends. We discussed how Jesus washed the feet of some of the other disciples and the humility this showed. We then spoke about how he was…

Fr Neale and Worship council led a beautiful Mothering Sunday service this afternoon. Class 3 sang ‘My Lighthouse’ wonderfully to their families. We also invited our mothers and mother figures in for afternoon tea and crafts in the classroom, Thank you for joining us and we hope you have a lovely,…