Mini Mud Run 2018

Yesterday Rowan and Willow Classes decided to hold a Mini Mud Run.

After some brief instructions and a demonstration from Mr. Smith the children set off at 10 second intervals and went under the tarpaulin to negotiate a jelly filled swamp, under various cargo nets, through tropical style rain fall to go under the rope bridge, through the huge cobweb, and down the water slide.  After that it was through the camouflage tunnel, into a big muddy puddle, over the slimy stepping stones to arrive safely back at base.

A good time was had by all.

Click on the link to see our pics:
A big thank you to all who came in early to help set up, loan equipment etc.  It really is appreciated.

Jungle Day

On Tuesday we had a very special visitor in Rowan Class!
As part of our 'In the Jungle' topic we wanted the children to get up close and personal with some jungle critters.  Our visitor brought with him plenty of animals that the children were able to get close to... and even hold!
Click on the arrow to see some of the fun we had thanks to Simon at Corner Exotics. 


Please leave a comment and we will share it with the children.

Our Darwin Value this half term - Stickability

This half term our Darwin value is ... STICKABILITY.

We are trying to remember that, even when things are tricky, we need to stick at it and try and our best! 

A Spring Update

This half term our topic has been Colour.  

We started by writing some colour poems and choosing our favourite colours.  Isla and Harry R. did such a great job that we put theirs up on our display board...

Next we read the story of Noah's Ark. 

As a class we worked together to make a fingerprint rainbow for our class display.  Then we thought and wrote about what we would like to find at the end of a rainbow... We have some very imaginative children!

In our Understanding the World we had a go at making our own rainbows using a mirror, some water and a torch.  We also tried the Skittle experiment which created some real Wow! moments.  Watch the video and have a go at home... seriously... you'll love it! 

watch the Skittles experiment 

In our Maths session we heard how Noah sent the animals into the Ark two by two.  We practised putting the animals in our Ark two at a time and counting them as they went in. 

The animals went in two by two... hoorah! 

And here is some of Logan's lovely counting in twos...

Finally... we've been learning that the colours in a rainbow have to stay in the right order.  If you're struggling to remember the order you can always sing along to the The Rainbow Song by clicking here. 

Santa Claus is coming to... Greenfields

What an exciting finish to our first term.  During our assembly this morning we had a visit from... Santa.  He delivered lots of lovely toys for our superstar girls and boys and we had such fun back in the classroom opening our lovely presents.

Our beautiful dolls house

Our new Rowan Cottage Family

And some pirates with treasure

Thank you so much to our wonderful GSA who give Santa the funds for our class presents.  They work so hard to organise events such as the Summer and Winter Fairs and your support at these events really does make a difference to the children.

Wishing you all a safe and happy Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all back at School in the New Year.

Best wishes

Miss D xXx

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

What an exciting day...

First of all we woke up to snow which kept on falling ALL DAY. 

Then, when we got to school we performed our Christmas Play to our grown ups, and then... at the end of morning break...

We had a very special visitor!   Oh ho ho yes we did...

How can it get better than this?

Here's hoping you have a lovely weekend with lots of snowy activities.  We look forward to hearing all about it. 

Miss D xXx

The Newest Member of Rowan Class

This week there is a new starter in Rowan Class. 

At the beginning of the week we noticed a Christmas parcel on Miss Daley's chair.  With it was a letter from Santa...

Santa has sent his favourite Elf, Elvin, to come and spend some time in Rowan Class.  Each day Elvin the Elf will hide somewhere in our classroom and we have to look carefully to find him.  At night time Elvin will fly back to the North Pole to give Santa the names of all the children who have been kind and good.

Apparently Elvin gets very tired at this time of year so, just in case he falls asleep in class, Santa has asked Miss Daley to put up a special spy camera.  That way he can see for himself which children deserve to get some presents.
 

 Elvin has already settled into our Class and has been getting to know Percy the Park Keeper...

I wonder what he will get up to next?