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Flicker,
flicker, went the flames in the fire – but they
shone brightly
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Last week the foundations classes performed their Nativity play for
their parents and grandparents. It was lovely to see them all dressed up in
their costumes and hearing them sing their Christmas songs and say their
lines.
Performing on the stage in the glare of the stage lights and in front
of an audience for the first time, the children excelled themselves.
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The children clearly enjoyed themselves whilst telling the story of
the Nativity in song, music and dance. The little ones spoke their lines
clearly and sang enthusiastically to the applause of their parents and
carers. As one of the songs went, “Flicker, flicker, went the flames in the
fire”, but the children shone brightly in their first large scale
performance at school. A lovely start to the Christmas festivities.
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Looking at animals – and feeling them too
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“Are those sandwiches for me?”
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Meeting Max the
chinchilla
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On 16th October,
Blue and Yellow Group visited Twycross Zoo.
The Zoo is world famous for saving and caring for monkeys and the
children saw lots of different types of monkeys including chimps, gibbons,
orang-utans and gorillas. Tommy the
chimp made them all laugh by playing peek-a-boo with them, although one of
the orang-utans was not so keen to be looked at and hid his face under a
pink blanket!
During their visit, Mr
Bates, the Zoo Keeper, let them touch a chinchilla, a leopard gecko, a tree
frog and a hissing cockroach.
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The children saw lots
of other animals including lions, elephants, giraffes, camels, prairie dogs
and seal lions. The penguins were
very funny and kept swimming up to the glass to look at them.
They all enjoyed their
visit to Twycross Zoo and learnt lots of things that will help them in
their Topic work – “Looking at Animals”.
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Indian dance workshop
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As part of their topic this term, the Year 4 children participated in
an Indian Dance workshop that was held in the school hall. Guided by local
dancers they learnt about traditional Indian dance and then learnt a number
of different dance steps and routines.
The dancers brought along some traditional Indian costumes for them
to try on and also a variety of traditional musical instruments for them to
listen to.
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The children enjoyed their dance lesson and learnt many things about
traditional Indian dances.
A group of the children later used some of their new steps and
routines in their own dance to present the traditional Indian story of Rama
and Sita to the rest of the school in a class assembly.
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Foundation’s fun – filled playground
officially opened
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Who’s going to go first?
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The “talking daisy”
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In the last week, Foundation’s new playground has been officially
opened by Mr John Walklett, Chair of the School Governors, and the
children’s reaction? A big “thumbs - up”!
The new play area has a multipurpose climbing frame at its centre
with different activity areas all around it.
The ground under the frame has been covered with a special safety
surface to protect the children if they should fall.
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There is also a new covered play area so that the children can play
outside even if it is raining. In the summer it acts as a sun shade.
The children have really enjoyed exploring and playing in their new
play area every day since it opened.
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Repelling the recent Roman attack
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For the second time in two years
the Year3 children had to pick up their shields and spears, paint on the
wode and form up ready to repel the latest group of Roman invaders.
Unfortunately the invaders were too strong and the centurians, with their
superior weapons and tactics, won again.
The invaders belonged to the Time
Zone group who were in school to teach the children all about the Roman
invasion and life in Roman times.
As you can see, the children put
up a very good show - Boudicca would have been proud of them!
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“Bonjour Hardelot” Yr 6 enjoy snails and
chocolate in France
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In October the year 6 children travelled to Hardelot sur Mare, a
small seaside town just outside Boulogne,
to stay at the PGL activity centre based in an old farm house.
There, they took part in the many adventurous activities, including
speedsailing on the wide sandy beach and tackling the very muddy adventure
course in the centre’s grounds.
They also visited the local places of interest, including a local
chocolate factory (those free samples – yum!) and the Nausicca marine life
centre in Boulogne (those sharks – cool!).
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In the evenings the children enjoyed the varied activities organised
by the PGL “groupies”, including the fashion show and the variety show –
though their teachers still quake at the mention of water, marshmallows and
yoghurt!
All the party enjoyed the meals at the centre and making their own
baguettes for picnic lunches. The finale to the week being a French meal
complete with escargot, cuisses de grenoilles and boeuf borguignon (snails,
frog’s legs and beef stew for those of you who can’t speak French!).
A big “merci beucoup” from all the children to the school staff who
helped look after them on their exciting visit.
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