Around The Classes

Whole School Assembly

Our whole school assembly on Tuesday of this week reflected on the life and peaceful black rights work of Martin Luther King.  Our children are always shocked and bemused by historical and current inequality and are daily encouraged to value and respect diversity.

Toni in Year 3 was moved to research more information and explore her feelings around this over the next few days and has shared a quote upon which we can all reflect:

"Just remember that the future's forever if we stick together and do what we can today.  If we can do something it is better than nothing, a little can change the world"

Mr Webb
Assistant Head

Reception’s Interactive Arctic Adventure

Reception enjoyed an amazing, interactive, arctic adventure on Friday 21 January, exploring the polar regions, with a little help from the Freshwater Theatre Company. 

The class has been studying the topic ‘Hot and Cold’ working with the text Lost And Found and learning about the polar regions. Workshop facilitator, Debra Meftah, used drama, role play and storytelling to help bring their polar ‘world around them’ studies to life.

The children took a memorable and engaging trip to the Arctic and Antarctic and back, meeting penguins, seals and polar bears along the way. They collected story clues and, with the help of Big Bird, created a delightful polar story together at the end.

Reception teachers, Mrs Emery and Mrs Pullen, said, “The children were captivated, they clearly all enjoyed the session, and it was great reinforcement for their learning in class. They enjoyed the hunt for the story clues and creating their own story. It was an excellent and engaging session.”

Well done to Reception, you were all amazing arctic explorers!

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Class 1LS English

This week Class 1LS have been finding out more about nocturnal animals. Everyone chose their favourite and used an iPad to find out interesting facts about them. They wrote them down in a spider diagram and used the facts to write about our animals. It was a great information gathering exercise with the added benefit of developing note writing skills as well.

Mrs Symons
Class 1Ls Form Teacher
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Class 1SS Are Batty About Bats!

Continuing our learning about nocturnal animals, we have been developing our question writing skills and finding out some amazing and fascinating facts about bats!  From finding out why they hang upside down, to what they eat and drink, Class 1SS have certainly enjoyed learning about these creatures - we even have a colony of bats hanging around in our classroom!

Mrs Stapleton
Class 1SS Form Teacher
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Class 3Y Maths

In Maths 3Y have been having fun comparing and ordering three digit numbers. 

Mrs Yates
Clss 3Y Form Teacher
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Year 6 Visit St Mark’s Church To Explore Victorian Times

Year 6 enjoyed a trip out in the sunshine on Monday afternoon to St Mark’s Church in Bilton. The children are studying the Victorians in History, exploring what life was like locally in Victorian times.

They discovered that there was much to be learnt from the gravestones in the churchyard as they gathered information in their survey. They tallied up the names, ages and dates of death, and tried to work out some of the stories behind the timelines. Interesting observations were made about the size of families, the common surnames, the young age of deaths and the number of children who died.

The churchyard was an oasis of calm, full of wildlife, on a cold winter’s afternoon and the children behaved beautifully. They will now review all the data they collected back in the classroom.

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Co-curricular Fun

It is great to see the children embracing all that is on offer in our co-curricular programme here at Crescent School. We have plenty going on, at lunchtime and before and after school. The clubs and activities are supported by staff and by external providers and we work hard to offer a spread of opportunity.

Earlier in the week Years 3-6 had Choir and were busy rehearsing hard under the expert leadership of Director of Music, Julie Barnes, seated in bubbles to minimise risk. Then there was Yoga for the Pre-Prep children with Natalie from Kidz Love Yoga. We sneaked in to both activities to take a few photos of all the fun.

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