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School council leaders co ordinate the filling of the shoe boxes to send to Eastern Europe.

Every fortnight, the vicar brings a team of people to help her present Open the Book assemblies involving bible stories and a lot of audience participation.

So far this Spring term, we have played lots of predator/prey games indoors because of the bad weather and practised our bird identification skills. We have found out about hedgehogs and even eaten them – chocolate ones of course!

Whole school Assemblies take place every day.  Already this term we have had several visitors to the school.  Besides regular visits from Rev Lorna Allies, the “Mad Scientist” has wowed us with some explosive experiments.

A new venture this year is whole school council meetings.  A year 6 child leads a “circle” of all ages to discuss a previously agreed topic within school and then reports to Mrs Edwards who relays the results at staff meetings.  Recent topics have been play ground games and use of hand gel before lunch.

Children are encouraged to take an active part in asemblies, and each week a group volunteers to present their own sketch/story or powerpoint .  This photo shows a reenactment of Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia, following the whole school topic of “Voyages”.  The theme was tolerance and friendship.

Already  this term, Nature Club has made bug homes, harvested a secret crop of potatoes,  played the “ancient” game of conkers, (having learnt about horse chestnut trees,) made clay animals and eaten lot of biscuits.  We have done the last pond dip of the year – there are still tadpoles there! We are going to put on the pond net and plant some garlic and crocus bulbs when it stops raining…