Issue 4

Year 5 and 6 were invited to take part in a History Competition over half-term.  They had to pick a significant historical event and say why it was so important.  The five winning topics were: Operation Mincemeat, Creation of the World Wide Web, The Romans, The Platinum Jubilee, The Battle of Stamford Bridge.

Year 3 chomped their way through a delicious Cornish cream tea in a seaside setting, finishing off the first half of term with a lot of excitement!

The afternoon tea was inspired by the book Year 3 have been reading this half term, The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber. It is set in Cornwall (hence the Cornish afternoon tea!) and is about the legend of a fisherman called Tom and his cat called Mowzer (which is why the children brought in their cuddly toy cats). They go out to sea in a storm, calm the storm and then bring back fish for the hungry villagers.

Year 1 are learning about instruction writing and have made jam sandwiches and a bonfire picture by creating and following their own instructions. 

Nursery had 'Spooktacular' fun in the Nursery woodland today with lots of autumn activities including making spider handprints, throwing sticky spiders, throwing the ring over the witches hat and hunting for spooky pictures around the woods. 

Thank you to all the amazing PATCH committee members, class reps and volunteers who came to help with wrapping gifts for the Gifts for Grown Up event.  The balcony of the entrance hall was a hive of activity preparing for the annual and eagerly anticipated G4G day. 

We were delighted to welcome Appleton, Botley, North Hinksey, West Oxford and Cumnor primary schools to Chandlings Prep for the West Oxfordshire Partnership Primary Schools Cross Country. The weather was a little rainy... just perfect for cross country! Children from Year 3 to Year 6 took part running past the bee hives,  the Year 6 camp and through the avenue of trees. 

In English Year 2 made and flew a kite, before writing their own detailed instructions explaining how to make a kite.

Four pupils from Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to attend Radley College's Prep School Orchestra Day on 8th November. They joined 125 other pupils from local schools such as The Dragon, OLA, Abingdon Prep and Moulsford to rehearse and perform four orchestral pieces. 

It was Year 3's turn to have their informal concert with over 20 children taking part playing the drums, piano, violin, guitar and singing. 

The whole school came together in a special Remembrance assembly to remember those who died during the wars. It was a moving service during which we listened to poetry eloquently read by Mrs Palfrey and some of our children before listening to a beautiful rendition of the last post by Yolanda Brown.