Dear Parents and Carers,
Half way through this term and we are finally seeing the signs of spring! On Monday 26th February we had a fantastic day with Outreach from Birmingham University. UBRacing and Brum Eco Racing brought race cars with them and a RobotDog. All children had the opportunity to sit in the cars and watch the RobotDog do some tricks. The afternoon they spent time in classrooms constructing cars and wind turbines from marshmallows and spaghetti. It was a very cold day but we had lots of fun.
This term we are having a massive push on reading. So far we have welcomed The Hive, Class 1 and 2 parents in for the last 30 minutes of a day to sit and read with their
child (Class 3 is later on this term). Class 3 had a virtual author workshop with Lisa Wakely. They learnt how to create suspense in character descriptions and plot out
exciting story ideas. World Book Day was a great success with many fantastic characters walking through the door. The staff entertained the children with their version of Aliens Love Underpants! The day was spent carrying out activities linked to literacy.
This week we are involved in a sponsored Readathon. Classes will be spending 30 minutes a day reading for pleasure. Any money raised provides books and storytellers to all of the UK’s major children’s hospitals and funds projects encouraging children to read for fun. As part of science week all classes are invited to attend an Animals VR session tomorrow. The workshop includes plenty of curriculum points across the school from ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’ and ‘Animals’ objectives such as classification, camouflage, diet and habitat, teeth and adaptation.
Tomorrow is also the last clarinet session for Class 3. We invite parents to attend a short concert at 2:45pm where children will perform what they have learnt.
