Reception have been super busy making amazing dreamcatchers! The children have been discussing what their dreams for Year 1 are. They have thought of some amazing things they would like to achieve when they come back to school in September.
Y5L were excited to receive letters from their pen-pals in France today. They sent us letters and Happy New Year cards (Bonne Année 2022!).
In France, they have a big feast on Epiphany, around 6th January, and a figurine is hidden in the cake (galette de rois). The youngest child decides who gets each slice of cake and the person who receives the figurine in their slice gets to be king/queen for the day! The children in France sent us our very own crowns (couronnes).
We have written our letters back and look forward to the replies!
We are planting wildflower seeds to create more areas for our pollinators, and reusing water from our water butt, and milk containers as watering cans.
Some of our allotment club helped to pull up and pick some vegetables. They will be used by our school cook to offer tasters to pupils. It’s good to find out where our food comes from.
Our salad vegetables are ready in the allotment and have just been picked!
We are celebrating the fact that we have our first strawberries in the allotment and that the ladybirds have returned to the mint plants. One of our pupils made some decorative clay sculptures to show this.
Nadia from Tranquil Treehouse is helping Year 4 pupils to notice the ‘wolf’ part of their brain, which in turn will lead to learning some useful relaxation techniques.
Allotment Club chose different varieties of sunflowers to grow – Giant sunflowers, Autumn Sunflowers, and Purple Sunflowers.
When the flowers have withered away, the head of the sunflower will make a great snack for the birds.
It’s fun using the allotment as a setting for our work!
Y4L have been lucky this year to have some French pen-pals from Noisy-le-Sec, near Paris. We have sent Christmas cards, Easter cards and some letters about ourselves, we have found out some information about our French pen-pals and they wrote to tell us about their Epiphany celebrations after Christmas.
We are so excited to receive some more letters before the Summer holidays!
