St Andrew's Primary School Blog
"A COMMUNITY OF FAITH AND LEARNING THAT VALUES EVERYONE FOR WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY BRING."
The children have been trying lots of different foods this week at snack time. They’ve had noodles with soy sauce for Chinese new year on Monday, with some children wanting to have a go at using the chopsticks, then pancakes with toppings such as lemon juice or honey for pancake day on Tuesday. The children enjoyed watching Mrs Parker try and toss the pancakes!
The above link takes you to the CoderDojo website. There you will find out about the nearest CoderDojo clubs. Interested?? Take a look!
This week we have been discussing what it means to be merciful and in particular what it means to be sorry and be forgiven. We have thought about how it makes us feel to say sorry and how it makes us feel to forgive. Even Pope Francis has to say sorry from time to time.
We have added new mathematics homework resources to the Homework sidebar of our school blog. Within these web based resources are opportunities for parents to let children explore and stretch themselves within the world of maths/number. Take time to explore if you are interested in your child having access to additional maths resources and activities at home. (Warning- at least one of the new sites involves a subscription).
Please remember that these sites are not officially endorsed by us or our education department so normal caution is required when accessing them.
We had a top notch Bananagrams 2nd round competition today, with some excellent words being made, stilts, wonder, sly, groceries to list just a few examples.
There were some extremely well matched games, (one game being decided with just one tile difference!) .
The winners who will progress to the third round are as follows:
Toby P5/6
Bobbi – Lee P6/7
Lauren P5/6
The match between Patrycja P5/6 and Hannah P6/7 did not take place due to illness, however this will be rescheduled for later in the week.
Today as part of our Marvellous Monday activities P3 found out about toys children played with in Victorian times. We listed similarities and differences between toys in the past and toys today. We also discovered that there were several differences between the toys the rich Victorian children played with and those played with by the poor children at this time.
After having done this research we had time to try making some Victorian toys of our own. We made ball and cup games and thaumatropes. A thaumatrope is made by creating two separate images which when put together and twisted quickly appear to blend together to make one image! We had great fun creating these including a fish in a bowl and a bird in a cage. You can see some of our finished work below:
