Congratulations to the first 5D recipient of an Individual ribbon of 2017!
Congratulations for receiving your balance pins this morning.
Congratulations on yourbalance pin yesterday.
For the last two weeks children in Foundation (Countess Way) have been reading the story The Train Ride. We have talked about journeys we have been on, by using the train, and which other ways of travelling there are, from cars and buses, planes and even boats.
The children have created maps to show their journey from their houses to school and coloured, painted and made trains. They have especially enjoyed role playing train rides and have taken it in turns to be the driver, passengers and the ticket collector.
The children have grown their understanding of ‘journeys’ and that they can be long, but may also be very short and that some journeys are made on foot.
This week we have moved on to we’re going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen where we will explore the journey the characters go on to find the bear. More on what we do for our learning later this week.
Wow! We have had an amazing day watching our chosen film of ‘The Hobbit’ or ‘The Jungle Book’ and cannot wait to continue creating our movie story books. Have a look at some of the sketches of our characters so far…
We were very proud to award a Strong and Powerful pin on Friday. Well done!
3 children achieved their individual pins before the christmas holidays. Throughout the last 2 weeks, we have had 3 lovely pin assemblies to celebrate the childrens’ hard work.
Well done!
Miss Downey
On Friday 13th we were very privileged to invite Dawn Fry, a chocolatier who is the great Granddaughter of the creator of Fry’s Chocolate, to help us understand the process of chocolate creation better. Dawn taught us about the 6 steps of the chocolate process from bean to bar and we had the opportunity to taste chocolate from the start to final process. We also had the opportunity to design our own chocolate bar and create our own chocolate lolly which was yummy!
The next steps for us is to learn how chocolate goes from the bean to the bar and why climate is important for this process alongside focussing on Fair Trade, human and physical geography and why chocolate is an expensive commodity!
