Since the children returned to school on 8th March, they have been taking part in various themed weeks every afternoon to help ease them back into the school routine. So far, the themes have included ‘Someone Special’ and ‘Health & Wellbeing’.
This week our theme is The Commonwealth. The children have discovered so much, and the week’s not over yet! Across all classes, they have been learning about The Commonwealth and the countries that are a part of this. They have been looking at the different flags from these Commonwealth countries and using their geography skills to find whereabouts these countries are on the world map – some of which are tricky to find!
The children have started to decorate each Commonwealth country’s flag, with a view of joining them all together to make some special Commonwealth bunting, which will hopefully be displayed in the school hall.
In KS1 this afternoon, they held their own Commonwealth Games. The children were so excited as they took part and cheered each other on, showing great team spirit. A highlight, was when they performed the Haka; an important tribal dance of the Maori people of New Zealand, which again is part of The Commonwealth. We hope you enjoy this video clip.
With today being a National Day of Reflection, we wanted to take a moment to express how grateful we are. Although it has been said many times during the past year, we wanted to say thank you.
From the middle of January, we launched the Tokyo Challenge with Active Schools Partnership, encouraging children to walk, run, scoot or cycle to collectively see if we could reach the distance from South Derbyshire to Tokyo.
This final story has always been a favourite of our Headteacher, Mr Smith, ever since Mrs Ashdown read it to him and the rest of his class at Christchurch Infant School, many years ago. Here is an excerpt taken from Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’.
The Jolly Postman and other people’s letters by Janet & Allan Ahlberg, is a favourite of Mrs Smith’s as she has such fond memories of her dad reading this to her as a child.
Mrs Cresswell reads her favourite story by Judith Kerr, called ‘The tiger who came to tea’. So make sure you have plenty of tea, biscuits, cake and milk available, as tigers can get quite hungry!
This tale is the ‘Bedtime Story of Paddington Bear’; so get your PJ’s on, cuddle up with your favourite teddy and click on the link below to listen to this wonderful story, read by Mrs Weston.
The Year 1 children will be pleased to know it’s the turn of Miss Dennis today, to read her favourite story. Miss Dennis always has a can-do attitude, just like the character in her favourite book; ‘The Koala who could’, by Rachel Bright, with illustrations by Jim Field. And she also loves koala bears too!
The sort of information we wish to know is shown on this Book Recommendations sheet here.