Year 1 Garden News

Year 1 gardeners have been planting up bowls of hyacinths to sell at the school Christmas Fair.  It was their first time out in the garden and despite the drizzle, they all engaged really well with the task they were given.  Lots of enthusiasm, muddy hands & a zest to learn something new!

Market Researchers

Some of our Year 5&6 children took part in a market research session to try out new fruit drinks. They were fantastic at answering questions and had very strong opinions on plastic straws vs paper ones.

Year 5/6 Tribal Dance

The children in Year 5/6 have been making cross curricular links between PE and their Topic learning this afternoon. The children looked at tribes, who live in the rainforest and then choreographed their own Tribal Dances. 
It was fantastic to see how they interpreted their learning in different ways and worked together as a 'Tribal Group'. 
They eventually performed their dance to the rest of the year group wearing the headdresses that they had made in art and with full tribal face paint! 

Children's Air Ambulance

This morning Anna and Mandy came into assembly to talk to the children about the Children's Air Ambulance - a very special air ambulance service solely for children. There are only 2 of these currently and one is based in Oxford and it was inspiring to hear about the essential job they do saving over 400 lives since they started. This service relies entirely on donations so it would be great to support them if we can this year.
Watch out for more information on how to join "the crew"  see childrensairambulance.org/thecrew
Hopefully we will soon be able to raise some money for them through donating unwanted clothing for their shop in Abingdon.

Art Club

This week, we changed from the difficult technicalities of perspective to pure freedom of colour using oil pastels. Hope you enjoy the results!

Adaptation Investigation

Science this week involved Sea Turtle class pretending to be birds and using bull dog clips to work out which of Charles Darwin's finches ate which food. Don't be confused! They were just learning about how animals and birds have adapted to their environment.Ask them to sing the song!

Mrs Avery 

Year 6 Visit RAF Benson

On Tuesday, the children in Year 6 visited RAF Benson. They were given a special mission to deliver books and teachers to local schools as Oxfordshire had been flooded! The children had to use their mathematical knowledge to calculate the total weight of the teachers and books due to fly in the Puma helicopters. Where the weight was too heavy, they needed to decide how they could alter their flights so that all schools got what they needed. Whilst they were there, the children also learnt about: how the Puma and Chinook helicopters work; protective clothing; diet and keeping healthy whilst serving in the RAF and general RAF life. To end the day the PTI's gave the children a full work out by challenging them to complete a specially designed obstacle course in the gym. 

Lots of fun and learning was had by all! A big 'Thank you' to the Flying High team at RAF Benson for giving our children this opportunity once again.