Acorns and Hawthorns Mindfulness

12th May 2023A Malone

Each Thursday Acorns and Hawthorns are able to attend ‘Mindfulness’ after school club.

Every week we start with some gentle yoga. Then we choose from a variety of activities – colouring, drawing, reading, playdoh, threading and other relaxing, calming tasks.

We finish off with a mindfulness activity on the whiteboard. One of our favourites is ‘Bubble Bounce’, where we track coloured bubbles on the screen whilst listening carefully to the spoken instructions.

These activities really calm our minds and help us to feel relaxed.

 

 

Coronation Fun!

9th May 2023S Wilkinson

The children in Maples have been learning all about the Coronation of King Charles III. They have been learning about who King Charles is and writing sentences about him. To end the week the children enjoyed coming into school wearing red, blue and white and taking part in a Coronation Party.

Coronation Fun!

8th May 2023A Tod

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III Willows had some fun with their friends in Cherries, making crowns, flags and designing a robe for display.

The children enjoyed a special coronation lunch too- Buckingham bangers and Coronation roast chicken! For pudding there were some yummy biscuits and cupcakes.

Looking very regal in their crowns!

Beautiful Botanicals

8th May 2023A Tod

Our art topic this half term is ‘Beautiful Botanicals’. To explore this theme, Willows went out into the school grounds to search for plants and flowers.

Once they returned to the classroom they set to work examining their samples and got straight on with sketching them.

Take a look at them at work!

This Week in Cherries

5th May 2023Hannah Edgar

This week we have continued our English work using the story Escape form Pompeii and children used iPads to research facts to complete a fact file. They found lots of artefacts that were preserved in Pompeii, including people, a dog and buildings.

In Geography they have been using map skills to locate countries on a world map, including Italy, to link to our Emperors and Empires topic.

As part of the coronation we researched King Charles’ robe and designed our own with Willows. They made crowns and flags and enjoyed coming into school wearing red, white and blue ready for the coronation party.

This Week in Hollies

5th May 2023A Hutchinson

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On Tuesday Hollies visited Hedworth Park. We loved playing on all of the equipment however, the slide and swings were our favourite. We have completed lots of maths and English jobs including telling the time, making patterns and counting to 100.

In topic this week we have been looking at the Crown Jewels that King Charles will wear at the coronation. We have also made flags and our own crowns for the occasion.