Year 4 have been to our partner school in Rochdale, St Peter’s CE Primary.  We visited the town hall which had peregrines nesting in the tower. We also went to the Neeli Mosque and learn so much about Islam.  We then walked along the canal and explored Rochdale’s industrial past.  Later we then spent time with out friends in Rochdale and discovered about the founding of the COOP and fairly traded produce.  We are looking forward to spending time with our friends when they visit us on the 15th June.

Year 2 and 4 have had a fascinating time working with Imran Kotwal, from the Muslim Learner Service who spent time discussing the Islamic faith. The children had so many questions and really had a creative and meaningful lesson.

After a superb Easter Service this morning we have had a packed programme of events at the Easter concert. This was another chance within the year to gain a performance opportunity prior to the  Summer concert. Over 62 children took part today in the concert and various children were unable to play today who would normally have performed.  What a superb opportunity to celebrate the musical talent we have in school. Congratulations to all involved and thank you to our parents and family who attended to support the children. Thank you to Miss Loy and all of the music teachers who teach our children each week.

Pupils have begun applying for House Colours. Please see the criteria for achieving our highest and most sought after recognition for our children.

House Colours

We are looking forward to seeing our children as famous or inspiring scientists and explorers to launch science week.

There is a prize if you can guess who this scientist is? There are clues in the picture! Mr Jones is very inspired by this person.

We have launched Fair trade fortnight with a superb worship time exploring the issues faced by growers of bananas and the difference we can make by supporting fairly traded goods. We are having a Big Brew on Thursday 9th March in the Year 3 classroom to try a cup of tea and a fair trade biscuit. (donation 50p). Parents are invited to stay and join us from 3:00pm  – 4:00pm. Fairtrade products will also be on sale too! We hope you will join us to promote this special event.

We will be celebrating World Book Day. Please bring your pyjamas or a onesie on the day in a bag for our reading time together.

Superb effort from all of the children who qualified for the County Cross Country Finals and Casterton.  All of our children finished in the first third of their  race which is an amazing achievement. Well done to Freddie and Charlie who go through to the Nationals!

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.

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