Festive fun and frolics

 What a wonderfully busy festive week to end a fantastic term! 

Year 3 have had such a busy week enjoying all the planned festivities in the run up to Christmas. Our play is complete - the actors and actresses certainly looked their part and thoroughly enjoyed their final performance which was filmed for us all to enjoy. We hope that you loved watching it with your mince pies!

Sadly we have to report that poor Mrs Teesdale and Mrs Donaldson have had terrible trouble yet again this week with the naughty elves. Their antics included ripping down Mrs Teesdale's beautiful display on magnetism, making a terrible mess in Mrs Donaldson's classroom by helping themselves to snacks, hanging from the newly decorated Winter Wonderland corridor and you won't believe this but they even caused mayhem with the animals by riding around on the back of the goats!! All this - despite us being reassured by Father Christmas himself after they were sent back to Reindeerland last week that their behaviour would improve!

Thank goodness the term is ending and hopefully Mrs Teesdale and Mrs Donaldson will not have to endure any more antics and further disruption from the pesky pair!

We are all poised for the Santa Fun Run this afternoon and thank you to everyone who donated to the Sue Ryder Hospice.

All that we need to say is have a superb Christmas and a brilliant New Year. We look forward to another great term in 2021.

Skipping, shapes and sorting!

Monday morning saw us shake off those morning blues and skip! Georgia came and taught the children different styles of skipping and it was great to watch every single child persevere and really try their hardest to achieve their own personal goals. It certainly kept away the Autumnal chill!

Mexico was the destination in Culture Club and the children made some fabulous Sombrero badges and they were introduced to Speedy Gonzalez - the fastest mouse in all of Mexico - and they had great fun with a homemade Pinata! 

Tessellation is the name of the game  and it was great to see the children creating their own tessellating shape following the instructions on how to measure correctly. The finished result is great and could adorn any bathroom!

The children had a lovely time in Forest School last week making clay poppies in the week we remembered the soldiers who have fought for us. As you can see they were stunning

Magnetism is still flavour of the month and the children are enjoying investigating whether objects repel or attract...does anyone know what 3 metals an object must contain to attract a magnet?