Today was Living History day! We learnt about the Celts: how difficult daily life was, how tricky making butter and flour is, Celtic art, medicines and weaponry!
We were really happy to open our doors and welcome in the community for our parent and child creative workshops that take place in school alongside resident artist Paul Smith to create some beautiful creations for this years Walking with Giants Festival.
Next Tuesday he will be working at Fen Street, we still have spaces for KS2 in the afternoon if you want to sign up. Please ask at reception.
Year 2 were thrilled to be involved in a fund raising activity this afternoon. Following an assembly by NSPCC representatives, Â the children took part in half an hours worth of different physical activities, including skipping, dribbling a football, running and more!
Our thanks go out to all friends and family members who have kindly sponsored the children and helped to raise money for this fantastic charity. If you haven’t done so already, Â please return your forms and sponsor money so we can count all your money and announce the grand total of money raised!
Year 6 have had an exciting first day! After a drizzly journey, the sun came out for our visit to Brownsea Island. We had a tour of the New Barn Centre, ate a delicious dinner and watched the football! Now we are tucked up in bed after a final hot chocolate and biscuit.
What will tomorrow bring?
A HUGE well done to all the children and families at Countess Way who ran on Friday for our NSPCC Fundraiser. The day was a massive success and I am so proud of the children’s resilience and belief in one another as they ran!
We have had a fantastic amount of sponsorship money in as well so thank you parents for all your support in organising this. Your children truly worked hard for every penny of that sponsorship!
I am delighted to announce that as a school we ran not one marathon… but 9!!! What an amazing achievement! Below are the ‘stats’ of what we ran so please celebrate these superb results with your families at home. There are a couple of Year3/4 who will be running this week due to being on a school trip so we will add their laps in too.
Thank you again for all your support for this event. More action pictures will be uploaded by class teachers!
Since the beginning of the year have been very lucky to have worked in partnership with MKG and their Start the Art- Out and About community early years project working with pre school children and their adults and is delivered to the Foundation children at Countess Way. Check out this video that explains what we do and why it is so important!
We are happy to announce that the Start the Art team will be back from the 4th July at Countess Way joining Miss Broome to roll out some amazing immersive creative activities for our youngsters, kicking off creative exploration and learning. These sessions will continue in September for both the community and the Foundation children. if you would like book a preschool place please www.mkgallery.org and click on Start the Art
Today Miss Drapers class completed their three outdoor learning art experiences at Campbell park with artist James Aldridge and MKG. They had talked and planned their learning with the artists last time we met and were very excited about their den building experience.They used willow and bamboo to create these wonderful shelters( fortunately the rain held off and we didn’t need to use them!)
Year 6 have arrived safely – they have already seen a red squirrel on Brownsea Island which they have found exciting!
We worked really hard on Friday and ran our hearts out to do as many laps as we could of the playground in order to raise money for the NSPCCÂ Speak Out. Stay Safe campaign.
The children worked really hard and ran as much as they could in two 20 minute slots.
Thank you for sending your sponsorship money in, we will find out soon how far the children ran and how much money we have raised.
Here are some of Manta Ray class trying their best and building their determined muscles in preparation for Year One 🙂
Our art is being displayed at the National Gallery.
We went to visit the display. The children were very excited and proud to see their hard work on display. Well done Brooklands Farm!
