Autumn Term 2017

We’ve got a new friend...Eddie the Elf delivered a wonderful Christmas story, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, for us to share and he even decorated our classroom! This morning we found him practicing his chunking with our maths frog and the wise old elephant!

This terms theme is Weslandia! We will use the gloriously illustrated celebration of individualism from an award-winning author.

Wesley’s an outcast from the civilization around him – he’s not into pizza or football or haircuts. But during the summer holidays, he has a brilliant idea: he’ll found a civilization of his own – in the back garden! From this seed a whole world grows and blooms – the extraordinary, imaginative world of Weslandia! Wesley creates his own food, clothing, shelter, games, language even, and gradually wins over the other children. We are going to follow Wes's lead and create our own civilizations! Look at our topic web to see how we have woven the curriculum into our exciting new theme!

WESLANDIA TOPIC WEB.docx

Home learning contract.doc

Light up Christmas cards

This week, we celebrate Diwali! We learned all about the story of Rama and Sita, and made Diva lamps to light their way home and to celebrate good triumphing over evil! We then learned a Bollywood dance to perform to our parents- we were particularly good at 'screwing in the lightbulb' and shaking those hips to jingle our bells!

Woodpeckers Residential

Sumdog Competitions Monthly National Competition: 22-28th September, 6-12th October, 3rd-9th November, 8-14th December. Worcestershire Termly Competition: 17-21st November

Experimenting with mixing paint.