Hello and welcome to our blog this week! We have been having lots of fun with lots of activities and we are all working very hard.

In literacy we have been continuing our story No-Bot The Robot, making predictions about what we thought might happen in the story and also going on a search for his bottom ourselves! We carried out a treasure hunt all around the school, following lots of clues! It turned out Ellen had stolen it to use as a tape holder, however it was too small. She then gave it to David in reception to hold his biscuits; however his biscuits were too big. It then went to the nurses because Lee wanted a new hat but it turned out that his head was too big! Kim in the physio department then took it to hold some insoles in but again, it was too small. Nicola, our OT then took it to give to Hannah because she needed somewhere to put her fruit. When we arrived in Hannah’s class it was apparent that it had been there, however she had then informed us of her fury that it was too small to hold her fruit and wouldn’t speak to us! Thankfully, someone took a video of her taking No-Bot’s bottom and throwing it out of her window. We went to retrieve it and found that Andy, our site manager, had then left a note asking ‘who left the bottom here?’ A photo of Andy was then found walking away with No-Bot’s bottom and taking it to the adventure playground. The children then searched hard and thankfully found the bottom!

In numeracy we have been working on measuring, using dominoes to see how tall we all are. In science we have been trying to find some food for Beadle Bot, our class robot, who was so hungry we had to go searching for magnetic and metallic items using a metal detector!

Next week we will be swimming as usual on Thursday and then getting all set for the half-term holidays!

Well done to Usman for getting the weekly achievement certificate in assembly!

Have a lovely weekend and we will see your children bright and early on Monday morning!

Phil

Hello and welcome back to our blog!

The last few weeks have been filled with lots of fun and learning. We have been learning all about robots and have been able to work around this topic with lots of fun filled activities in numeracy, literacy, science, food technology DT and art.

The children have built a magnificent robot called Beadlebot, who is currently on display in our classroom. He was made after careful consideration about which material we needed to use to make it. In the end we made the sensible decision of cardboard. We painted it beautifully; Ludmila was able to make a lovely painting on the eye gaze device too just to add to the magnificence!

As part of our literacy we were then able to make a set of instructions on how to make a robot! Also in literacy we have been reading lots of stories about robots which have engaged the children across all abilities!

In Science we have done lots of work around magnets and forces, which has tied in nicely to our topic on robots. In food tech we have made some lovely robot biscuits!

We hope you have a lovely weekend and we shall see all your lovely children on Monday!

Phil

Thank you for all who came to the Christmas show today, I’m sure you will all agree that the children were brilliant and we are all very proud of them! Here are some photos of the children dressed up! As we were a tad busy with the children we unfortunately couldn’t get any of the actual show!

Thanks for reading!

Phil

We had a lovely surprise yesterday as we got a phone call from Bev for Usman, he was told to head on down to the office with everyone to collect a package that we had been awaiting.

The package was huge and the children were so excited to see what was inside! It turned out that it was a package from the Jolly Postman himself. He sent us all the props we needed for his story as well as his 2 most famous stories about himself, The Jolly Postman and The Jolly Christmas Postman. We read the latter and had lots of fun wondering who the letters might be from!

Thanks for reading!

Phil

Hello and welcome back to our blog! We thought that we would give you an update on our trip to Beamish the other day and show you some of the pictures from a fantastic day out!

We set off down the A1 and got to Beamish at about 10:45, which was perfect timing to walk down to Santa’s grotto and say hello to some of his Reindeers. We then walked through (cutting through a rather large queue) and then went to see the big man himself! Santa was full of chat and was absolutely brilliant with the children. He talked to them all about what they were doing for Christmas and what they wanted off him, he accepted that he was going to have his work cut out for him this year.

After leaving Santa we went back out to see the reindeers who were even more delighted to see us as Santa gave us a big bag of reindeer food, which is like a mix between seaweed, moss and sawdust (as you can see I don’t know what it was we fed them).

We then headed down to the pit village where we had a little wonder around the school and then headed for a spot of lunch in a lovely room with a roaring fire.

In the afternoon we headed down to the old town on an old yellow bus! I must stress at this point that Mark was such a brave boy as he plucked up his courage to go on the bus after being a little bit afraid of all the old buses and trams moving around the place. In town we of course visited everyone’s favourite regional sweet shop and bought some goodies to take home.

After a short stay it was time to go. Unfortunately it took ages for the yellow bus to return, we needed this because it is wheelchair accessible. This resulted in us being very late and we only returned to school at 3:15 which was a bit frantic for the grownups!

What a day we had and we are so proud of our beautiful children who were an absolute joy to take out! Happy days!

Thanks for reading!

Phil