| School News September 2010 - July 2011 |
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| Key Stage 1 Craft Fair |
All the children in KS1 made things to sell in a craft fair to raise money for their class charities.
They sold lots of bracelets, badges, notebooks, placemats and other lovely things.
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| Community Cohesion Day |
Class 11 had a really interesting day learning about Community Cohesion.
They had the opportunity to try on a variety of items of religious headgear and talk about why they are worn.
They studied maps of Leicester City Centre and saw how many great facilities we have so near by.
They also learnt about the origins of some of our words and made a map showing some of our links to other places in the world.
Everyone enjoyed the day and learnt a lot about how diverse Leicester is. |
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| Global Leicester Trip |
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Class 12 had a very enlightening trip to Belgrave Road, where they met a number of very interesting and helpful shopkeepers.
The trip started at the Belgrave Road Neighbourhood Centre and included a fascinating prayer meeting at a nearby Hindu temple. |
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| The Writing Tree by Year 6 |
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Class 13 worked together with our artist in residence, Kirsty Whitrow, to produce this wonderful writing tree. The tree is 12m tall and is made entirely from exercise books that Year 6 had written in over their last year at school.
The text on the right explains all about it.
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| Aspirtions Week |
In the last week in July the whole school enjoyed
a week of learning about careers.
We had lots of fantastic visitors
who came and told us all about their jobs.
The week was kicked off by a racing car driver,
who told us all about her career
during Monday's assembly.
Throughout the week we were visited by
nurses, police, cabin crew, a photographer
and many more.
Everyone in school really enjoyed learning so much about so many different jobs and would like to say a big THANK-YOU to everyone who helped out!
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| Summer Fayre! |
A huge THANK-YOU to everyone who attended the Summer Fayre.
Despite the threat of rain, we all had a lot of fun!
The Fire Service brought a fire engine and the Police brought a police van for us to explore.
The giant slide was a big hit as was the delicious BBQ!
Thanks to all your support the PFA have raised £700 to support children in the school.
Click the fire engine for a slideshow of the photos below.
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| Extreme Reading |
We have been asking people
to bring in photos of themselves reading in interesting places.
Many of the teachers
have brought in photos too!
Here is Kaleb from Class 5 reading in the playground before school. |
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| PDSA Assembly |
Class 4's class charity is the PDSA. They performed a great assembly all about pets and vets and the important work that the PDSA do for people who can;t afford their vets bills. The special guest for their assembly was Ms Marsden's dog, Mrs Higgins.
We learnt a lot about how to look after pets and how important the PDSA charity is. |
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| Sikh Festival of Baisakhi |
The Sikh festival of Baisakhi will take place on 13th or 14th April. We were really lucky to be visited by Dhol Enforcemnet Agency (DEA) led by Indi Singh Soor, a group of Sikh musicians who explained and played a wide range of musical instruments in assembly and taught the whole school some great dance moves.
They then spent the rest of the day teaching each class how to play the dhol (their special, double sided drum) and all about the Khalsa and the symbols of being a Sikh.
They taught us so much about the festival, sikhism and the special music. They also showed the whole school how to celebrate! |
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| Rainforest Alliance Assembly |
| Class 9's class charity is The rainforest Alliance. They performed a fantastic assembly for the school, which told us all about how important the tropical rainforests of the world are and what happens when the trees are chopped or burnt down. We heard from the people and the animals who live in the rainforest. It was a great assembly. |
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| Food Fun |
This term we have been concentrating on healthy eating. Jessiecca from the Leicestershire Dieticians Service came to tlak to everyone in KS! about food groups and a balanced diet.
On Thursdays after school, Candy and Sue came to talk about nutrition and make some delicious healthy food with 15 children and their parents. They've had 6 sessions and have made fruit rumblers, healthy muffins, fish cakes, fruit crumble and next week it's party food. They've also learnt about how to eat healthily at home and a t school.
We hope to be able to continue the club next half term. |
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| Christmas Celebrations |
| The whole school celebrated Christmas in many ways this year. Foundation performed The Sleepy Shepherds, Years 1 & 2 performed Baboushka ad Years 3 & 4 performed a fantastic Cinderella story, all in rhyme. We also enjoyed a string quartet playing for us in the library and in assembly. Our Christmas lunch was made all the more special this year by a brass band playing carols for us. Merry Christmas Everyone! |
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| Sunflower Competition |
| Leicester City ran a sunflower growing competition last year, for year 5 pupils across the city. Pupils plnated their sunflower seeds, transplanted them out side and nurtured them as they grew. Once they had reached full size, the heads were removed and weighed. There was a prize for the biggest sunflower head and also for the highest class total. Mrs Black's class from last year are the FIRST CLASS EVER to win both prizes!! The winner of the biggest sunflower head for the whole city was Courtney, who is pictured here with our trophy! Well done Mrs Black's Class!! |
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| Christmas Fair |
| This year's Christmas Fair was a fantastic success, with plenty of people braving the ice and snow to come and support the school. Santa was very busy, with constant queues of visitors. The raffle was a great success, as was the raffle of a beautiful Christmas Cake made by Billie Gamble. Many thanks to all of you for your support. We managed to raise a fantastic £840 to put towards school projects and trips. Thank you so much! |
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| Cool Cats - Attendance Week |
We have had some a very exciting visitors this week.
Cool cat and his friends have been at school every morning to greet all the children who arrived on time.
Cool cat's friend also gave out prizes for a colouring competition and for a draw of full attenders in each class.
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| Children In Need |
| Once again this year we raised money for Children in need by pupils paying to come to school in spotty clothes. Mrs Jackson and Tricia also spent all week baking cakes and treats, which were sold after school. Thanks to everyone who helped us to raise a record amount this year! |
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| Halloween Disco |
This year's halloween disco was a great success.
We raised a record £149 and sold 125 entry tickets.
Thanks to everyone who joined in.
Here are some of the winners of the fancy dress competition! |
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| The New Year Begins! |
This school year has started with a whole new look to the school.
We have many fantastic new members of staff. In years 3 and 4 we have 3 mixed age group classes and 3 new teachers: Miss Mayfield, Miss Doyle and Miss Balwant.
In Foundation we have a new Team Leader, Mrs Turner, a new teacher, Miss Jones and Miss Wells has moved from teaching Year One to now teaching in Foundation.
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| New Outdoor Equipment! |
We are also very lucky to have a number of new pieces of outdoor equipment. We have 2 new Outdoor Classrooms, which will enable classes to go out into the grounds to study. We also have a new stage, which has already proved extremely popular with all year groups. Most break and lunch times a large group of children of all ages sit and watch other pupils perform songs, jokes and dances!
The Foundation area has had a whole array of new outdoor equipment, which will help the pupils to learn balance and climbing skills, as well as working and playing together. |
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| Playpod! |
The Playpod is resourced by The Children's Resource Centre and has provided us with a fantastic range of manufacturing surplus materials for the children to play with at lunch times. They absolutely LOVE playing together, building and learning to share.
This type of curriculum enrichment allows the children to develop their creative side, learn to share and also learn about how different materials behave and can be used. |
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| Litter Zappers |
Our fantastic first team of Litter Zappers have been out on the playground in their lovely new yellow bibs.
They also have brand new long reach litter grabbers
so that they can collect litter without touching it.
The bibs and
grabbers were bought using the Tesco vouchers that you all generously donated.
Different year groups will litter pick each week,
so that our grounds will be lovely and tidy.
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| Artist In Residence |
This year Artist, Kirsty Whitrow will continue to work with each class in the school to produce various styles of art work.
As each class is following a particular charity this year, we hope that some of the art work will be related to the class charities.
Watch this space for more fantastic artwork!
Click here
for a display of the
stunning artwork
from last year
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| Reading Club |
Our Reading Club takes place every Tuesday after school.
It has been a fantastic success with over 70 people attending some days!
Many families have enjoyed reading together, as well as doing some craft work or playing in the creche.
Why not come along and join us next Tuesday? |
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