This week we celebrated Chinese New year!

We have been learning all about the traditions and history of Chinese New Year! We have done this by cooking traditional Chinese food, making our own lanterns and red envelopes to take home and even trying to write our own Chinese writing!

In our Chinese New Year Assembly on Monday morning we wowed our audience with a traditional Dragon Dance. Using costumes and drums it was the perfect way to say Gung Hay Fat Choy! We later cooked sweet chilli and Quorn chicken noodles, which was a great idea from our Usman who chose the ingredients! We then gathered round in traditional Chinese clothing to eat our noodles, using chop sticks! We each got our own fortune cookie, which we all found very fascinating.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

This week we have been thinking all about what the Romans ate!

Using fresh vegetables we put our fine motor skills to the test by chopping, peeling and grating vegetables to go into our roman vegetable soup. One group made vegetable soup while the other made bread for dipping, just like the Romans!

For snack we all gathered round to try our soup and bread, which really went down a treat. A special well done to Usman who tried something new and loved it!

In class we are learning all about life as a Roman! Dressing in Roman armour, delving into how they would go about daily life and even having a go at making our very own coil pots.

During art we each got a lump of clay, which we could roll and mould and turn in to a coil pot. Just like the Romans! We really enjoyed seeing our work build up, and got very excited with the result.

However, if you build like a roman…You must dress like a Roman! So we all tried on some Roman armour and started to learn a new song ‘Walk like a Roman’ a song filled with facts about Roman life. We loved dancing and singing like a Roman!

Yesterday we all had the most delicious Christmas Dinner. We went into the School Hall to find decorated tables with crackers to pull and lovely Christmas music. We enjoyed the full works and even had fizzy drink! Many thanks to Irene and her staff who worked so hard to make the dinner and to the Senior Management Team who dressed the tables and worked so hard to make our Christmas Dinner experience so good.

This afternoon each child received a present from Santa Claus provided by our very generous friends at The High Street Group. The absolute joy has been captured and we are all very grateful.

Friday was the day of our Performance and what a Performance! (in our non biased opinion) We decided to re-enact “In the Bleak Midwinter” to showcase our children’s talents. We began our Performance with the beautiful singing of Joe who very kindly stepped in for Anthony who unfortunately was poorly. We then all joined him to play our Recorders as we have been learning how to play this instrument all term. Charlie who is our class Weatherman then became the Weatherman in our Performance telling us all about the cold wind, the frosty ground and then the snow. Each small group acted out each scene before all coming together for a snowball fight. Perfection! We hope if you managed to come you thought it was amazing too.

Mrs Ball, Babs, Sue, Jess and Carol.

This week we have been getting in the Christmas spirit. On Monday we got our Christmas tree out of the loft along with our decorations. We had so much fun exploring all of the decorations and putting them on the tree. We had Christmas Music on and we also decorated the classroom.

On Tuesday during cookery we made ‘melting snowman biscuits’. Everyone decorated their own biscuit with icing, marshmallows and pretzels. They look so good and they tasted DELICIOUS!

We have also been decorating some Christmas bunting. We used lots of glitter and beads and special Christmas stamps. The bunting is to be entered into a competition to win a special treat for our class. Fingers crossed we win!

We had a visit from someone special, Santa Claus. Our friends from Stagecoach brought Santa on their special Santa Bus. We were kindly given selection boxes and bubbles from Blakelaw Social Club.

We have also been making some Christmas cards. They look fab! You will see the finished product soon…

Have a good weekend.

Mrs Ball, Babs, Jess, Sue and Carol.