A Taste ofIndia—     Year 3

Year 3 have been using many skills across the curriculum in their topic on India.  They have performed and filmed ‘Jollywood’: Bollywood dancing, in costume.  In science they have made shadow puppets whilst studying light and shadow; they studied the story of Rama and Sita (Diwali) in RE and made some beautiful clay lamps in art; they used their numeracy skills to use nets to make 3D shapes and boxes for their lamps.  In literacy they were able to use their fantastic note-taking when writing up non-fiction and finally, in geography, they located India on the map and compared every day life in India with theirs. We love to explore the world through our learning.

On Wednesday afternoon, Year 3 parents and carers were invited to come and sample a flavour of their children’s work, at the same time being entertained with the shadow puppets and ‘Jollywood’ dancing. They arrived at the departure lounge where they were greeted and given their boarding tickets by our ‘Indian hostesses’ who escorted them to board the Jumbo jet. The pilots, Jonas and Tyler, introduced themselves to the passengers and the air hostesses completed a safety talk. There were 2  in-flight films, Jollywood dancing and a puppet show of Rama and Sita. Parents and carers were able to buy items from the duty-free trolley, poppadum and mango chutney and their child’s Diwali lamps. Of course, everyone was encouraged to join in

‘Mathgical’ Day                                                                                                                                                                              Langold Langold school spent a ‘Mathgical’ day looking at maths in the real world and how to apply their learning to different tasks.  Year 6 looked at architecture and managed to list 30 jobs that could be created from just one drawing and then they went on to design their own Antarctic Research station for 4 people, finishing with crop circle inspired art.  Year 5 had loads of fun with the Argos catalogue – they had to fit out their café and then design their menu, they also finished with tessellation art –  inspired by the leatherback turtle. Year 4 started by looking at how we have to count syllables in poetry to make it scan and then made their own clocks with string and weights!  Year 3 received a very interesting letter asking for help from a community of gnomes and KS1 and explored lots of different problems that used their fantastic maths skills. FSU had lots of fun using their maths skills.                                                      

All in all a very ‘Mathgical’ day!

Looking to the Future                                                                                                           Year 2 will be having a ‘Looking to the Future’ day on Monday.  A  builder, an artist, a performer, a teacher and a team of chefs will be coming in to share their skills.  The children will be having a go too! Some children will be visiting some stables and a vet’s surgery. We are always looking for inspiration - we have BIG DREAMS !

Founders and Thinking Day

As 22nd February is Founders and Thinking Day, members of the Scouting  and Guiding Movement are allowed to wear their uniform for school on  the first day back at school on  24th February.

Parent Consultation Evenings

I would like to thank all those parents who came along to our parent consultation evenings this week.  The feedback you gave us was very positive.  Several parents told me that they preferred the more formal parents’ evening over the open days we tried in the Autumn term.  This feedback is important to us and we will now alter our arrangements to take account of this.  It would be good to hear what you think of the short report that we gave you to keep you updated on your child’s attainment and targets.  Could we improve this in any way?

Please email: 

office@langold-dyscarr.notts.sch.uk

Angela Huthart

Happy New Year and welcome back, everyone.

Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku - Bonne Année!

A BIG WELCOME to all our new starters in F1

A BIG WELCOME to all our new starters in F1

Welcome to all our new starters, we love having you in our FSU family!                                                            

We look forward to working with you and your families and carers.

Delicious Christmas Lunch with Silver Service   

The children and staff were treated to a truly delicious Christmas lunch.  Many thanks go to our cook, Lisa and the kitchen staff who prepared 204 meals; our wonderful PTFA and helpers who dressed the dining hall so beautifully and of course to the midday supervisors .  All the teaching staff joined in the ‘silver service’ of the meals and helped make this a lovely experience for us all.