Candy cane mice!

Today the children worked as a team to assemble the mice.

Just what every Christmas tree needs! At 50p they are a real bargain! Come along to the Christmas Market tomorrow, the mice will be waiting for you!

Christmas Craft

We are busy making our Candy Cane Mice tree decorations to sell at the Christmas Fair on Wednesday afternoon. So far we have cut the pieces out of felt and sorted the right size pom-poms for the noses!

Tomorrow, we will put the pieces together, add the eyes, the nose and the all-important candy cane. They will be on sale for 50p!

A lovely letter...

Dear Children,
Thank you very much for inviting us to watch the dress rehearsal of your Christmas Play.
We were really proud of how well you came into the hall. You all looked fantastic and your singing was amazing.
The children who had part of the story to tell spoke in loud clear voices and so the audience knew what was happening.
We would like to say thank you to the adults in Key Stage One too. You worked really hard to make the play a success.
We are sure the parents are as proud of you as we are.
Thank you again.
We wish you a Happy Christmas and we hope you have a wonderful holiday.
Mrs Cook and Mrs Ward

Christmas Show Fun!

When a horse, a cow, 5 cats, a camel, 3 dogs, 4 donkeys, 3 sheep, 4 mice and a zebra can be seen trotting down the corridor it can only mean one thing...the Christmas play has arrived!

We have worked hard to practise our class song for the play. We are all the animals in the stable; with a few additional friends! This morning Foundation Stage watched our dress rehearsal and then this afternoon we performed our show for Key Stage 2.

Now we are ready for our first performance of 'Its A Baby' for grown-ups tomorrow afternoon!

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

The second half of our trip was spent learning about many of the aeroplanes that flew in WW2. Mr Rowley told us that members of the public have to stay behind the barriers, around the edge of the huge hangar, but he had arranged it that we would be allowed to walk right next to the planes! What a treat!

Mr. Rowley told us about some of the men who flew the aeroplanes. This man had a very lucky escape! He had to jump out of the Lancaster Bomber when it was 3 miles up in the air. Fortunately for him, he landed in a German forest where the trees slowed down his fall, then he landed in a huge snow drift!

What a fabulous experience!

Our Trip to Thorpe Camp

We set off early from school on the bus, excited about what we might be doing and seeing on our trip. We arrived at Thorpe Camp and some lovely volunteers showed us round the exhibits.

Ant explained how morse code works with dots and dashes. He told the children how to do their initial in morse code!

We then had chance to look round the displays to find out what life was like in the past.

Nick let us try on some different army equipment and told us what the soldiers used them for. Even the grown ups got to join in!

Nick then led the children in some 'drill' where they were taught to march and salute!

We then got back on the bus and set off for The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight...

Shiny Objects and Light

We looked for the shiny objects in the boxes...but we couldn't see them! I was puzzled and said to the children 'But they shine so brightly out in the classroom, why can't I see them in the box?'
Very quickly the children were able to tell me that shiny objects don't have their own light, they need other light to 'show them up'.

We shone torch light into the box and looked through another hole. With the torch light reflecting off the objects we could see what they were!

The children worked well in partners to identify the objects!