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Dinosaur Hunting in Dyscarr Wood
Mon 17 Mar 2014Dinosaur Hunting in Dyscarr Woods!
This week the foundation children went on a dinosaur hunt. They put on their backpacks filled with the necessary equipment: magnifying glass, binoculars, and a notepad and pen. We were a bit worried, but Oliver reassured Mrs Fenton and told her not to worry because he would look after her..ok after
When we entered the woods we discovered a huge dinosaur footprint! Miss Frisby checked it with her magnifying glass and it had 3 toes! Next, we found a huge egg nestled in the leaves and branches—we looked for the mummy dinosaur, but we could not find her. We carried on and saw some poo like the one we found in foundation. Finally, we found the dinosaur asleep in the trees! When Lente saw it she said, “I’m going back to school now!” Brooke Leigh made lots of notes about what we saw: she had written ‘river’, dinosaur’ and ‘tree fallen down’. Archie and Tyler were quite worried that Mrs Stacey had been eaten by the dinosaur because she went missing for a while. However, she appeared from out of the wood all safe and sound. What a fantastic adventure we had!
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World Book Day March 6th 2014
Mon 17 Mar 2014WORLD BOOK DAY
An Amazing Day of BOOK activities!
Last week we had a super World Book day when we worked on wolf activities all day in KS1 and KS2. At lunchtime, children who had brought a book to swap chose a ‘new’ book from the swap table to take home to read.
‘The Wolves in the Walls’, by Neil Gaiman, provided so much inspiration throughout the school! The activities included: Year 1 making pig puppets, story masks and using brilliant adjectives to describe the wolves; Year 2 went on a ‘wolf’ walk, making a clay wolf head with things collected on the walk; Year 3 used their letter writing skills to inform their grandparents of the wolves in the walls and in the afternoon they also read a story in French about a werewolf and enjoyed acting it out, including howling at the moon; Year 4 made some fantastic wolf masks; Year 5 used co-ordinates to design a game where they could hide and then attempt to find the wolves; Year 6 listened to the story, made notes and then summarised it and used this to develop the concept of ‘fear of the unknown’ and produce some ‘power statements’ and FSU read Little Red Riding Hood. Wow!
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Thank You PTFA
Mon 17 Mar 2014Thank You PTFA !
Thank you to our WONDERFUL PTFA for donating £1,300.00 to buy a FANTASTIC set of resources which will enhance reading throughout the school. The children have been thrilled and very engaged with them!
Reading Every Day Leads to Success -
Books are Brilliant
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1:1 tuition Success
Mon 17 Mar 20141:1 Tuition Success
Well done to all our 18 1:1 tuition pupils who were presented with their certificate for successfully completing their 10 week course of lessons. They have all been working very hard to improve their literacy and numeracy skills showing resilience and determination. We are proud of you!
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Have you seen our dinosaur?
Sun 09 Mar 2014
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Pancake Day - Delicious Success!
Sun 09 Mar 2014Pancake Day - Delicious Success!
All our school diners really enjoyed the delicious pancakes served by Lisa and Sarah.
Thank you!
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New playground equipment
Tue 04 Mar 2014Playtimes are so much more fun! The new playground equipment has proved to be a great success!
You said you wanted more to do at play time so...
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Inspired by Pirates
Fri 28 Feb 2014Year 1 and Year 1A—Inspired by Pirates!
Year 1 and Year 1A were inspired by their topic on ‘Pirates’ last half term. After working very hard across all the curriculum areas they celebrated with a ‘Pirate Day’ full of different pirate activities and, of course, a party — pirate style. Aaaaargh!!!!
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Book Fair 25th March 2014
Fri 28 Feb 2014Book Fair -Tuesday 25th March
You will be able to spend your free £1 World Book Day tokens at the fair. You can put them towards the price of a new book. Many books will be reduced.
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World Book Day
Fri 28 Feb 2014World Book Day Thursday 6th March
We will be celebrating World Book Day in school next week. Each class will be working on different activities based on a story about a wolf.
We are also organising a Book Swap on the day, swapping a book we don’t want anymore. Donating books for the permanent swap can start on Friday morning 28th February. We are sure someone else will love to read a book you have grown out of!
