After our successful session, whittling our own toasting forks. We decided that we needed to test them out for effectiveness. Up in the woods we finally lit a fire, and happily toasted our sausages over the campfire. We only lost a few sausages to the fire, but luckily there were spares.

We had a fantastic time at Manchester airport visitor centre. You won’t believe all the fantastic things we got to see and do! We stood underneath the fastest passenger plane in the world, asking lots of brilliant questions. Then we pretended to be pilots and engineers on the flight deck of real plane and could press any buttons we wanted. It was a brilliant day!

Here is another opportunity to follow the exciting world that is St Mary’s CE School.

We are launching our twitter account this week.

https://twitter.com/StMarysKL

Why not follow everything we are doing!

This week we have been sorting animals into the 3 different groups.

Herbivores, Carnivores and Omnivores. Challenge your child to tell you what these animals eat and some of the animals in the groups.

It was a bit windy and some of the cards ended up on the roof!

Year 1 visited the church for a baptism. Reverend Snow demonstrated how to baptise a baby. Everyone had a go at putting a cross on the dolls forehead and they used a shell to scoop the water.

We built fairy gardens using all the bits and pieces we could find. The children were highly creative and very inspired. Their gardens got bigger and bigger with ponds, baths, bird feeders, zip wires and long paths. The children even wrote notes for their fairies …and the fairies wrote back, overnight. The children were very excited to write back to their own fairy!

Mr Jones has been given a range of poems to create a series of books about Nature.  More poetry will be published in the near future.

If you want to buy the book please go here.

Follow this link for a selection of photos of the event. Here

Here are a small selection of photos of the event. Well done to everyone of the junior children who took part in the event.

We had to work out how to break the ice to get the Numicon out of the middle. The children gave some brilliant suggestions – use a hairdryer, put it in the sun, make it hot and “smash” it! We used hammers to break the ice, the children loved every minute of “smashing” the ice and eventually they got the Numicon out!

A selection of poems has been put together reflecting our outdoor experiences in the school grounds.  These poems have been selected from Year 5 and 6.

We hope you enjoy them.  If you wish to purchase the book, follow the link here