Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers Class have been busy this week learning about Autumn and harvest. They performed brilliantly in their Harvest Festival performance - the first time  many of them  have performed to parents - Miss Hartung and Mrs Sherman were incredibly proud of them! In the classroom, children have taken part in a wide range of activities from making pumpkin potions, exploring their senses in the water tray and fine motor skills in the Autumn tuff tray to engaging in role play with our pumpkin patch! They have been developing their phonics knowledge also and have begun writing CVC words and a few children have written some short phrases - Miss Hartung has been incredibly impressed by the children's skills and, most importantly, their hard work and positive attitudes to learning. 

Paul O'Grady

Paul O'Grady class has had a very busy term! Last week, we went on our school trip to the Medway Towns Gurdwara. We had the opportunity to learn lots of new, exciting facts about sikhism and we were able to ask lots of questions about the religion. Parminder was also very impressed at our knowledge of Sikhism. We would like to thank the Medway Towns Gurdwara for allowing us to visit.

We have also been busy completing a range of work in our Inquiry lessons. We have been looking at motivational speeches and have linked this to Black History Month by looking at the speech Martin Luther King gave. We are now writing our own motivational speech, pretending we are Asha from our class text 'Agent Asha - Mission Shark Bytes'. We are excited to finish these off next week! 

Space Week

Last week, we celebrated Space Week in school. Each class took part in Mission X Astronaut Training and completed a range of Science and physical activities throughout the week to prepare themselves for Space. Miss Hartung, our Science lead, also led 3 parent sessions (we were overwhelmed and thrilled by the level of support and number of people wanting to take part.)  

Children designed rockets with their parents before we took them outside to launch. Like all true Science, some rockets worked more effectively than others and we learnt from our mistakes and found better ways to create rockets as the sessions went on - one rocket on the roof and another in the tree are testament to quite how well some of them worked! 

Thank you to everyone who attended, we had some lovely feedback from parents and children. In the words of one of our Year 2 pupils, "Thank you for organising this, I really love Science!"

Harvest Festival

This week, we celebrated our Harvest Festivals with a record number of parents and carers coming along to support.  We started the morning with some wonderful singing from Nursery and Reception, followed by Year 1 and Year 2.  In the afternoon, Years 3,4,5 & 6 did a fantastic job at their performances too.  We were very grateful that Reverend Gwilt joined us for some performances and gave thanks for the harvest. 

Thank you to our community for taking the time to join us in these celebrations, and for your generous donations which will be shared next week.