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Week ending 19th January 2024
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The children in Nursery have continued using Goldilocks as the book focus of our learning this week and have been talking about size and shape, using the words large, medium and small to describe the bowls and chairs. We also learned about how to make porridge and made our own with some fresh milk.
Photo gallery
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Last week the children began to learn about contrasting habitats, looking at Antarctica as well as deepening their understanding of weather and season change given the cold! We have been exploring what happens to trees in winter with collage and creating a winter sound sequence for storms, ice, wind, snow and frost. Photo gallery
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Year 1 enjoyed a very interesting afternoon with our Jewish visitor. We learned all about why and how Shabbat is celebrated in a Jewish home. We got to smell sweet spices, taste Challah bread and some of us modelled some Jewish prayer clothes. We are looking forward to making our own Challah bread and having a Shabbat experience next week! Photo gallery
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In Forest School so far this term, Year 1 have enjoyed making magic potions, building dens and bases, rolling down the bank, sliding down the mud slide, making woodland animal shelters and of course, playing in the muddy puddle!
Year 1 Forest School gallery
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This week in our D&T unit "Remarkable Recipes" we learned how to read a recipe and follow hygiene rules such as washing hands and making sure our working area was clean and organised. We worked together to make a tasty Eton mess! Look at those strawberry smiles! Yum! Photo gallery
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This week we have been exploring muscles and how they can only pull and cannot push. We were exploring how muscles have to work in pairs to move a joint. One muscle will contract and pull a joint one way and another muscle will contract and pull it the other. We enjoyed completing our Making Muscles activity, testing our strength!
Our photo gallery
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This week Year 4 have been learning more about the features of journalistic writing. They took it in turns to be interviewers and eye-witnesses as part of our English unit on 'The Creature'. In computing the children were challenged to come up with a “code snippet” to program Logo to draw a digit using the commands we had learnt so far. More news and photos
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In science this week Dragonflies have been looking at burning and developing their understanding that fire needs three things: fuel, heat and oxygen. By carefully using tea lights we carried out an experiment to investigate whether placing different sized glasses over a lit candle would affect how long it would remain to burn. In art explored the sculptural potential of natural materials before working collaboratively to create land art installations. View more photos
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We were excited last week for the first session of our new extra-curricular activity, the Year 5 Go Kart Club!
During the course of the club, the children will learn how to re-build a real go-kart, change tyres, learn about steering and how an engine works. The club will be ‘hands-on’ each week and once we have managed to re-build the kart, we will all go to a local racetrack in Leicester and give each child an opportunity to drive their kart round the track.
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On Monday a group of year 1/2 and year 3/4 children took part in a gymnastics competition. They had to learn a body management routine, a floor routine and they had to perform a vault to a set of judges. The children were amazing and performed their routines with confidence. We were thrilled that some of our children were awarded with the highest points for the day. A big congratulations go to all the children! Photo gallery
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Daventry Food Bank
This week Daventry Food Bank collected your generous donations of food and toiletries. Angela would like to pass on her thanks for every single item you have donated.
We hope to be able to fill the donation box again soon. During the very cold weather it might make a huge difference to someone else.
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Parent Governor Vacancies
Earlier this week you were emailed an invite to stand for election as a parent governor on the Full Governing Board. We have provision for 2 parent governors and there are currently 2 vacancies.
Please see the letter emailed to you or on the letters page of our website for more information. If you would like to stand for election, please complete the nomination form and return it to the school no later than Monday 22nd January.
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Space in Partnership
Space in partnership with Delapre Abbey are running basic ride outs for those who are looking for safe cycling sessions away from the road and busy traffic.
These Rideout's are designed around a safe ride out for adults who just need to gain confidence within a safe environment, they just need to book and turn up at Delapre Abbey.
Sessions run 1 x Wed
2 x sessions Sat
2 x sessions Sun
From 17th Jan to 28th Feb 2024.
To book visit https://www.trybooking.com/uk/DATV
Mr Pete Spink
Director
Space 2 Talk CIC
https://www.space-wellbeing.co.uk/
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Scholastic Book Fair
We are pleased to host a Scholastic Book Fair in school during the
7th -13th February.
There will be opportunities for you and your child to shop from a lovely range of books for all ages, and stationery items too, whilst raising much needed funds for books for our school library.
More details will be released shortly.
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Stem4 Parent Mental Health Day Free Webinar
Thursday 25 January 7pm
Creating Positive Relationships
Register here: https://bit.ly/PMHD2024
To make and maintain strong or positive relationships, the first step is to ditch the self-critic and build on being positive and self-accepting. Low self-esteem often leads to making poor choices in relationships since it’s hard to let anyone else like you if you don’t like yourself.
Join Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and friends, as they look at practical tools to help you in #CreatingPositiveRelationships.
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Lost Property
If your child has mislaid something at school and it was not labelled with their name, please have a look in the lost property boxes in the entrance porch at the front of the school.
Items will be kept until the end of the month and any unclaimed items will be donated to charity wherever possible.
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Kingswood Catering
If your child has a dietary requirement please read the following statement from Kingswood Catering Ltd.
Your safety is our greatest concern and because allergies can be life-threatening we would ask you to think carefully about the risks before you order.
We are proud of the service we provide to people with allergies and intolerances and we work very hard with our suppliers and our team on processes and checks around allergens. However, you should be aware that all of our kitchens handle ingredients containing the top 14 allergens other than NUTS, SESAME MOLLUSCS and CRUSTACEANS. This means that there is a chance of contamination and all our meals are therefore classified as “may contain”.
If you have any questions or need to update your child's dietary requirements please call us on 01536 201203 or send us an email enquiries@kingswoodcatering.co.uk
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For more key dates and information, please click on a date above to be taken to the calendar on our school website.
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