Dance for Daniel
A huge thank you to all involved with our Dance for Daniel. We have managed to raise, so far, £2, 500!
This is an amazing sum of money – thank you. I will be talking to the family, during this next week , about what we can now do to help.
News about Daniel is that he is doing well. After a few complications following the transplant he is making steady progress. The next big step is to have Daniel well enough so that he can be transferred to a Leeds hospital as the family are still travelling to Birmingham.
We continue to wish Daniel well.
Dance for Daniel!
We danced for a whole hour on Thursday in support of one of our pupils, Daniel, who has recently undergone an organ transplant. He will spend several months in hospital recovering and we thought it would be nice to show our support. The sun shone and it was a great way to end Spring term – with everyone smiling and feeling happy! If anyone has any sponsor money or donations, please send them into school after the Easter holidays.
Poetry Recital
Homework a couple of weeks ago was to learn a poem to recite in front of the class. Lots of children were able to do this. It is a great way to strengthen memory skills and to learn how to pronounce words clearly and fluently.
Are you beautiful?
Our Talk Time homework (linked to our Living and Learning theme) produced some super discussions about what is beautiful.
‘I think elephants are beautiful.’
‘Beautiful is not just about how you look. You can be beautiful if you are nice, clever or generous.’
‘Beautiful means different things to different people.’
‘Nature is beautiful, like wild animals and pets, and particularly snails shells.’
Special hatching visitors!
Wow! We have had a very exciting few days. Yesterday, we watched chicks hatching!
Foundation have been very patient waiting 21 days for the chicks to hatch in the incubator.
We have 4 chicks. The children have written their ideas for the names and we’ll decide as a class soon. Today, we talked about the life cycle of a hen and how to care for our chicks. Can your child tell you what we talked about for 2 challenge bricks? Please send us an email with your child’s response.
We also let the chicks run around on the carpet in front of us – it was very exciting! Tomorrow, we’re looking forward to holding the chicks.
Outdoor PE
Children have enjoyed outdoor PE lessons this week. We’ve been particularly working on skipping skills. Please could you ensure your child has some blue/black tracksuit bottoms to wear (bare legs can get a bit chilly) and suitable shoes for outdoor PE (trainers, pumps or well-fitted school shoes are fine – not boots). If you’ve any trainers that your child has grown out of and would like to donate them to school for our spares box, we would be most grateful.
16 March 2018
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect:
Learn the songs words and speaking parts for the Bee Musical production.
Children have their own copy of the script and song lyrics so that they can be practised and learnt at home ready for the forthcoming performance.
Mimika Theatre
This week, some children had the chance to watch the Mimika theatre company present ‘Landscapes’ within a white, domed-shaped tent. The performance explored the diversity and complexity of the natural world.
‘Landscapes’ uses a variety of techniques including puppetry, an image based story line, an immersive stereo soundtrack and a variety of sensory events and visual effects to involve and engage the audience.
Before the performance began, the children were introduced to two of the puppets (the snake and the crocodile).
Then we took a seat inside the dome…we were all very excited!
We watched in wonder as a story unfolded through four different landscapes (desert, rainforest, sea and the Antarctic).
People who help us…nurse visit!
This week we had some special visitors in F2.
As part of our ‘people who help us’ topic, Ruth and Sarah (a hospital nurse and a community nurse) came to visit us. They spoke to the children about how they care for people at home and in hospital.
They asked the children what the role of a nurse is?
- “Put plasters on.”
- “Might do an x-ray if somebody get hurt on their bone.”
- “Help you get healthy.”
They brought some of their equipment (stethoscope, bandages, heartbeat monitor) to show the children. They showed the children a stethoscope and explained how they use it to listen to a person’s heartbeat and their breathing. They modelled how to dress a wound using a bandage. The children talked about their experiences of bandages:
- “If your hand is bleeding you need to put it on your hand.”
- “One day when I was riding on my bike I fell off and daddy put one on my hand.”
- “I hurt my elbow and had it all up my arm.”
We’d like to say a big thank you to Ruth and Sarah for coming in to see us. We’d love to have more visitors to talk about their job and how they help others. Please speak to a member of the F2 team if you are interested.
World book day
I’m sure many children were disappointed today when they couldn’t come to school in their book day costumes! Therefore, we have decided to re-schedule World Book Day to Monday 05 March. Your child can come to school as their favourite book character – just as was planned for today. We’d also like to invite parents to stay and read with their child at school drop off from 8.50-9.20am.
If your child is swimming on Monday, please bring some clothes that will be easier for them to change into after swimming.