100% Attendance Celebration 08.04.25
Children who achieved 100% attendance during the Spring term celebrated today by watching a film together and eating ice-cream.
Children who achieved 100% attendance during the Spring term celebrated today by watching a film together and eating ice-cream.
Today, year 3 had a special visitor who came in to speak to the children about our local area.
The year 2 children arrived safely at the Frank Chapmsn centre yesterday and got stuck straight into some fun outdoor team building activities. They had to use their listening, leadership and teamwork skills in order to complete different games and tasks. They ended their first night with a night walk with their torches through the forest to visit the magic tree, where they each made a special wish! The children ended the first day very happy but also very muddy and tired!
After a good nights rest in their beds, the children enjoyed breakfast before taking part in a variety of outdoor activities in their groups. They had to crawl through tunnels using head lamps in the dark mine! They got to learn more about maps and was able to practice their orienteering skills around the centre. They also worked in pairs to complete a blindfold course through the forest and the mud! They ended the second night with a more relaxed evening with lots of showers, a movie, playing, colouring and hot chocolate!
All the Year 2's have enjoyed their first two days at the centre and although they are tired and a little bit muddy, they all have big smiles on their faces! They are also excited to take part in bushcraft tomorrow on their last day before returning home!
The internet has not been the best from the centre so we will upload more photos of the children when we can!
A huge thank you for all of your creative house point designs! They were all amazing and the house captains had a tough decision but the winners were..........Josiah, Melody, Layla and Tedra. Each lucky winner received 100 house points for their house team, a Christmas certificate and a Christmas chocolate treat to enjoy! Overall, Air won 300 house points for their winning entries and Earth with 100 house points. All of the winning designs are displayed around school for all to see, with lots of other entries shown on display too!
Feel-good Friday returns!
Today the Frank Chapman staff visited us at our school and spent the day with our Year 2 children!
They spent the day outside taking part in lots of different outdoor activities to get them excited about their upcoming residential trip in February! The children got to have a go at making their own fire and worked with partners to complete an orienteering course around the field. They worked in teams to play different games and worked on their teamwork and listening skills. They ended the day with a group sing-a-long around a campfire!
Although it was a cold and windy day, all the Year 2 children had a great time and got to build on lots of different skills. Thank you, Frank Chapman!
Mrs Read and Mr Cotterill take delivery of our new stage. We have today taken delivery of a new staging system. Once we have assembled it, the children will be able to enjoy performing for audiences like professionals. It is thanks to everyone's continued fund-raising efforts that we have been able to purchase this piece of equipment.
A huge thank you for your kind donations for Children in Need. So far we have raised £289.32! Thank you very much! The final amount we've raised will be shown on our next newsletter.
Thank you to all of the children who took part in our various competitions this week. The colouring competition winner was Sydney in year 4, the winner for design a Pudsey t.shirt was Felicity in 1M, the winning acrostic poem was written by Emme in year 3 and Kaisan in year 5 correctly guessed the number of M&M's in the tub. All of the winners received some Pudsey ears, a Pudsey activity book and a Greggs Pudsey biscuit. There were some amazing entries and of course thank you for wearing your yellow clothes today.
Happy Children in Need Day!
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Throughout the week, each class have been decorating a poppy with a medium of their choice. These have been displayed proudly outside on the grassed area for all to see, creating our own Flanders Field! On Remembrance day itself, we all took part in a 2 minutes silence to remember the sacrifices people made for us during the war.
New House Names!
We start this new school year with the launch of our new house names, that will replace our planet names previously. They are Fire (red), Earth (green), Water (blue) and Air (yellow.) The children have been very excited earning lots of house points for their new house, ready for the weekly house point trophy!
Year 6 have had a wonderful end to their week celebrating the end of their time at Hall Green.