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Zany Zebra!
Thu 12 May 2016Over the last few months our zebra “Oakey” has been designed, painted, named and finally been finished this week. The children all saw him in assembly today and Mrs Lund Yates is delivering him to the Marlands Centre after school tonight where he will join 100 other small zebras from the project.
Look out for him on the zebra trail this summer.
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Year 2 Visit to Tesco
Mon 09 May 2016Year 2 have visited Tesco to find out how our food gets from ‘Farm to Fork’. We had the opportunity to taste different types of bread, cheese, fruit and vegetables from our local area and all over the world. We also investigated, with the help of staff from Tesco, where our food comes from, looking at countries from all over the world. The staff from Tesco told us all about how cheese was made and showed us how some things were made in the bakery..
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Maypole Dancing
Tue 03 May 2016The sun shone as we danced around the Maypole. This is a traditional dance; people used to attach ribbons around a tree and dance around to celebrate the warmer weather. We learned two dances making a simple plait with the ribbons and the Grand Chain. We all had lots of fun
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Mill Cottage Farm Visit
Tue 03 May 2016In Year R our animal learning continues. The children have enjoyed welcoming farm animals to school this week as Mill Cottage Farm visited. The children found out about how to care for many different farm animals including pigs, alpacas and sheep. Many of the animals were treated to a brush as part of the care routine. The ducks, chickens and turkeys that were brought along showed the different types of birds that might be found on a farm.
“The farm was the best farm in the werld. I licd the pigs.” Rhys
“The pics was plain in the grars they wur fends.” Lacey
Year R have been looking at creating short stories about an animal that has got lost. Lots of stories have been written in independent learning, some of these have been shared at story time.
“The rabit hopt away and his mum fowd him.” Charlie
“Once apon a time there was a rabbit She got lost and her mummy fownd her and she took her hoam” Summer
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Civic Award
Fri 29 Apr 2016We celebrated the success of over 100 of our Year 2 pupils who completed their Civic Award and were presented with their certificates by the Mayor of Eastleigh Councillor Jane Welsh in a very special assembly. All the children involved have completed 6 hours of service, maintained a hobby and are embarking on planning an adventure. Parents, staff and pupils were all very proud of their achievements.
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South Central Ambulance Service
Fri 22 Apr 2016Last year, 5 of our children were chosen to take part in a 999 training video for South Central Ambulance Service along with some children from Fair Oak Junior School. On Wednesday, the children were invited to attend a launch of the video at the Junior School. This is now available to watch on their website: scaskid.co.uk, please also visit the website for other useful links for children to gain basic first aid knowledge and learn what to do in an emergency.
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All Aboard with Year One
Fri 22 Apr 2016Year One had a very exciting launch to our ‘All Aboard’ topic this week when they dressed up as Titanic passengers. It was fantastic to see such creative costumes as they welcomed the First Class, Third Class and crew members on board! During the day they learned all about the differences between the classes. They all learned a dance to share with the rest of Year One at the end of the day and they explored a history box full of items belonging to a second class passenger. We hope your child came home full of enthusiasm about the new topic and are keen to find out more in the coming weeks.
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100 books to read before you are 11!
Fri 18 Mar 2016The Times Educational Supplement and the National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers' top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school. How many has your child read so far?
TES and the National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers' top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school. Here are the results.
1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
2 Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
3 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4 Matilda by Roald Dahl
5 The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
6 The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
8 We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
9 Dogger by Shirley Hughes
10 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
11 Stig of the Dump by Clive King
12= Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
12= The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
14 Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
15 Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne
16 Funnybones by Allan and Janet Ahlberg
17= Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson
17= The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
19 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss
20 War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
21= Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
21= The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
23 Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
24 Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
25 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
26 Not Now Bernard by David Mckee
27 Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
28 The Twits by Roald Dahl
29 I am David by Anne Holm
30 The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
31 The Paddington series by Michael Bond
32 Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
33 Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
34 Five Children and It by E Nesbit
35 Clockwork by Phillip Pullman
36 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
37 The Magic Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton
38 Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury
39 Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
40 The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
41 The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy
42 The Alfie and Annie Rose series by Shirley Hughes
43 Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield
44 Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
45 Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore
46 Sad Book by Michael Rosen
47 The Borrowers by Mary Norton
48= A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth Brown
48= The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg
50 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
51 Coraline by Neil Gaiman
52 Zoo by Anthony Browne
53 Treasure Island by R L Stevenson
54 Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne
55 Cinderella by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti
56 Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
57 The Railway Children by E Nesbit
58 Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman
59= Kidnapped by R L Stevenson
59= The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith
61= Beegu by Alexis Deacon
61= The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
63= Eragon by Christopher Paolini
63= The Mr Men and Little Miss series by Roger Hargreaves
65= Gentle Giant by Michael Morpurgo
65= Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
67 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
68 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti
69 Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
70 Theseus and the Minotaur by David Orme and Wendy Body
71= The Just William series by Richmal Crompton
71= On the Way Home by Jill Murphy
71= Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
71= Street Child by Berlie Doherty
71= The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
76= Angelo by Quentin Blake
76= The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Draywalt and Oliver Jeffers
76= The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
79 My Mum by Anthony Browne
80= The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
80= The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
82= Face by Benjamin Zephaniah
82= The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp
84 The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
85= Click Clack Moo: cows that type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
85= The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
85= The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
88= I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
88= The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
88= The Early Years at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
88= Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
92= Birds Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
92= The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
94 The Mrs Pepperpot series by Alf Proysen
95= The Asterix Series by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
95= The Fib and Other Stories by George Layton
97 The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo
98 The Kipper series by Mick Inkpen
99= The Milly-Molly-Mandy series by Joyce Lankester Brisley
99= The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
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Year One visit to Marwell
Fri 04 Mar 2016Year One have enjoyed a fantastic visit to Marwell Zoo. We found out lots of information in our rainforest workshop about how the conditions in the rainforest differ to the UK, as well as learning about rainforest animals. We even got to see some of the animals up close! We also spent time looking around the zoo at the other animals.
“I enjoyed touching all the animal skins especially the Ocelot because it was nice and soft” Amelie
I enjoyed feeling the snake skin because I like snakes. It felt scaly” George
In school we have been working on our rainforest poems in Literacy where we have been using adjectives and verbs and even rhyme to make our poems more interesting. Here are some lines from our poems:
Three cheecy tigoos jumping in the mud. Matheu
Three nortee grorilos fighting in a boat. Ethan
We are also enjoying making our comic strips in ICT. We have started to create our storyboards and we will soon be creating the comic on the iPads using the ‘POW’ app
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999 Hero
Fri 26 Feb 2016As we were learning about heroes before half term, the children in Year One had a special visit from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance team. They came to teach the children some basic life-saving skills of making a 999 call. This was a very interesting visit and the children should now feel more confident in the event of an emergency at home or when you are out and about.
