Grebes Activities

Collective Worship 20.2.23 – Reverend Darleen – Lent

Today Reverend Darleen talked to the children about the festival of Lent, a 40-day period where Christians remember the time leading up to and including Jesus’s death. (Click here for more information.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/43045086 We heard the story of Jesus in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. Three times the Devil tempted Jesus to make bad choices, but each time he refused even though it would have made his life easier. Lent is a great time to think about the choices we make. Reverend Darleen said that we do not have to give up something – e.g. chocolate – for Lent just for the sake of it. “God doesn’t want you to be miserable!” It’s better to give something up for a purpose – e.g. give up time to help out at home. 

Viking Day – January 2023

To deepen our understanding of the Viking impact on Britain, we had a Viking Day. Children loved handling the artefacts and taking part in a pitched battle.

Thinking Day celebrations –  22nd February 

Salhouse Primary school’s Rainbows, Beavers, Brownies, Cubs, Guides and Scouts shared World Thinking Day with their friends today. 

Looking so smart and happy in their uniforms, they talked about the fun activities that they take part in. 

This week, in particular, they were hoping to make pancakes! Camping, activity days and trips to local areas of interest or much further away are also firm favourites with all of them. 

The children at Salhouse are very lucky because lots of parents are involved with the running of these organisations either as volunteer helpers or in uniform.

The day was formerly Thinking Day, and it is celebrated annually on 22 February by Guiding and Scouting organisations. It is a chance for the children to think about the global impact that they can have within their own groups and all around the world. They fund-raise and help in the local community with bag-packing or litter picking.  They understand that little changes can make a big difference when they happen all over the world. 

Singing Assembly

Today we welcomed Coots parents into school to hear our Tuesday singing assembly. Coots got things started with a performance of the Boundaries Song which they previously performed in their class assembly based on the book Ask First, Monkey!

Then after some warm-ups the whole school practised the hymns How Great Thou Art and Amazing Grace, with musical accompaniment from Year 4 and 5 children Ivy, Grace, Freya, Ffion, Megan and Eadie. 

Grebes PE – The Haka

In Dance, children are learning the Haka, a dance made famous by the New Zealand rugby team. We watched the All Blacks performing this legendary challenge.

And then had a go ourselves!

Which is more intimidating?

Children’s Mental Health Week – 6-12 February

We kicked off Children’s Mental Health week with a whole-school assembly. Children talked about what connecting with others means to them and ways we can connect to others. We talked about how powerful something as simple as a smile and a “hello” can be.

Abby (Coots) – We can call someone up to connect with them.

Florence (Kingfishers) – We can hold hands.

Blossom – You might fall out with someone, but they are still your friend. You are still connected.

Freddie – You can play a game with them.

Caitlin – When you’re playing a game, you can show it to someone else.

Jude (Coots) – You can go and get your mummy and ask her to sit next to you.

We played a silent connection game where you had to connect with someone else in the room without making a sound. Some people gave a thumbs up, some a pat on the back, others made a funny face! 

Indie – What we were doing was the opposite of what we did on Remembrance Day where we looked down and did not look at each other.

‘Together’ by Matt Goodfellow

We read this lovely poem together.

To find out more, visit

www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk

RE – Creationism and Science: Can they both be right?

In RE our key question is about Creationism (the belief that the Creation story in the Book of Genesis is literally true) and the Science of Evolution and Cosmology (the Big Bang). We have re-read the Creation story in the Lion Bible (read it here). We watched an episode of BBC Universe called The Sun: God Star (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09ybpb8/universe-series-1-1-the-sun-god-star) and Sir David Attenborough’s explanation of the ‘Tree of Life’.

This certainly stimulated the discussion! Here are some of the questions children came up with and which we will attempt to answer over the coming weeks.

Is God the Sun?
Is the Sun a god? 
Why aren’t there any dinosaurs in Genesis? 
Is God a gas? 
When the rocks formed to make planets, how did they become perfectly round? 
How did some dinosaurs develop feathers? 
Is the world flat? 
Did people just make up God as a way to explain how the world was made? 
Is God space? 
Is God a Black Hole? Is God Dark Matter? 
How big is the universe? 
Is time travel possible? 
When will our Sun die? 
Is God a spirit?                
What actually is a spirit? 
Is Satan real?
Is God real? 
Do Heaven and Hell exist? 
If God made Eve by taking a rib out of Adam, why don’t all people get made in this way? 
Were Adam and Eve born as babies or were they created as adults? 
Where is God right now? 
Are we all related to Adam and Eve? 
Does God know everything? 
Are we controlled by God? If we are controlled by God, does anything we do actually matter? 
Is the Bible fiction? 
Who wrote the Bible? 
What gender is God? 
What gender is the devil? 
Who was the first to know that God is real? 
How was God made? 
When did God die?  
Where is Jesus in the Creation story? 
When you die, do you actually have a second life? 
Does God have senses? 
How old is God?  
Who are God’s parents? 
Who came before God? (Something must have existed before God…) 
Which of these questions are answerable? 
Should we bother thinking about questions that can’t be answered? 
Are our mistakes meant to happen?  
Does everything happen for a reason? 

On The Origin Of Species – Charles Darwin

Retold and illustrated by Sabina Radeva

In Science we are reading a children’s version of Charles Darwin’s earth-shattering book, On The Origin Of Species (1859) which explains how organisms adapt to their environments, compete with each other in the race for survival, and continually evolve over millions of years. Here are a few pages to read and talk about at home.

On The Origin Of Species E-BookDownload

Darwin’s Dragons – Lindsay Galvin (Spring 2023)

In Grebes we are reading Darwin’s Dragons, a work of historical fiction with fantasy elements by Lindsay Galvin. Here is the blurb:

Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime – cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin’s Beagle – but when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.

Shipwrecked on a Galapagos island, he makes a discovery that could change the world – and make his fortune. But should he share his find, or will it lead to the extinction of a legendary species?

There’s one person who could help, but he’s busy writing a book …

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