Day for Change

Today we have been raising money for Day for Change.

Our challenge was to collect enough change to cover the map of the United Kingdom on the school playground.  The school council took charge, ably assisted by children from Early Years, and used the coins to cover the map.  Thank you everyone for your generosity.  As soon as we have counted all the money we will let you know how much we have raised.  This may take a while!!

Everybody worked together to lay out all the coins - it was great fun!

Then we had to pick them all up again - well done everyone!

We all had filthy hands by the end but it was all for a good cause!

All the change we have collected will go directly to UNICEF's children’s emergency fund to save and protect children affected by emergencies around the world.
By donating your change today you have helped to keep even more children safe from danger around the world.

Here is what the money raised will go towards .....

• £8 can supply high-energy food for a malnourished child for one week
• £26 can pay for a winter kit for a child, including a hat, scarf, gloves, thermal wear, winter boots, underwear and a baby quilt.
• £100 can provide support for three children who have suffered the distress of war.

Once again, thank you very much for your generosity.  By collecting all our change then hopefully we can change our world for the better on 'Day for Change'.

Saving Pirate Purplebeard...

Year 2 recieved a letter in a bottle from Pirate Purplebeard. He said he needed help URGENTLY!















The Pirate Cruncher had damaged his ship and he needed help to rebuild a better ship that could float and was ready for battle.


The children worked in teams to create a boat using a range of materials. They had to think about which materials would float and how to ensure the boat remained balanced in the stormy seas.







Once the boats were completed the children tested and evaluated their design.

Fire! Fire! Fire!

In Year 1 we have been learning about The Great Fire of London. We found out how it started and where it started. Also we learnt more about important people at that time, including Samuel Pepys and we were inspired to write our own diaries.

 Then we had lots of fun when the fire service came to visit. They taught us how to stay safe and we practised putting fires out with the hose!

 

 

 

 

In our art lessons we practised joining clay to make beautiful owl sculptures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early Years Around the World

Our class bears have gone exploring!  Each class has planned their bear's trip around the world choosing the countries they would like to explore.
As a special treat this year the bears were invited up to the International Space Station by Tim Peake.  They all learned that there is no gravity in space and soon managed to move around the space station as expertly as the astronauts.

Dewi bear from Cherry Class with astronaut Tim Peake.

Dexter in Ash Class playing the drum using call and response like they do in South Africa.

Enjoying a delicious snack in the French Cafe - croissant anyone?

Grace was looking for the United Kingdom on the globe.

Rebecca labelling the places she wanted to visit on a world map.

Tyler is very proud of the Eiffel Tower he has built.



Henry James Bear is currently in the Arctic looking for Polar Bears and wishing he had packed some warm clothes!



Jennifer, Harry, Engelberdt and Charlie are having a great time experimenting with the melting ice, salt and food colouring.
When we added the salt they could hear the ice cracking and watched it melt.  As we added the food colouring it trickled down the holes left in the melting ice block and created 'Rainbow Ice'.

Henry James Bear is at the check-in desk ready to fly to his next destination.  Where will the bears go next?  Follow their adventures on DBPrimary.

 

Dinosaurs

This half term we have been having fun finding out interesting facts about dinosaurs. We found out which dinosaurs were herbivores and which were carnivores.

We know that dinosaurs lived a long time ago because fossils have been found. We made our own fantastic fossils using clay.

In Science we have been thinking about which groups animals belong to including mammals, birds and reptiles. We found out even more when Birdworld came to visit us.

 

 

This week is book week and we have been looking at the story "The Dinosaurs are having a party". We have had drama workshops where we acted out the story and created "freeze frames" to tell parts of the story. In English we have been writing our own dinosaur stories.

Early Years are settling in!

Year R are all beginning to settle in.  They are having a wonderful time and making lots of new friends.  Here are some photographs of the children and what they have been up to.

Can we help Pirate Pete?

We recieved a letter from a pirate who told us he was sick and tired of living at sea. In the letter he told us that he wanted to live somewhere that was not too hot, but not too cold. He wanted to experience different seasons so he didn't get bored and he didn't want to see any monsoons! He asked if we could help him so we set to the challenge.












We have researched different types of weather
to help the pirates. We really enjoyed writing
weather poems and reports on the local weather.






On their way to see use the pirates crash their boat! We had a go at designing a new boat for them. We thought they must be