We have been very busy in school this week.

it has been fun walking around the school to see the Christmas doors. Someone spotted that they were all very different to look at and this made it even more exciting. Our corridors look bright and sparkly.

Movie afternoon was such a treat and we thoroughly enjoyed Disney’s. ” The Lion King.” A few of us had never seen it before so, that was special. The snacks and drink went down a treat too! Thank you.

Christmas lunch was tasty and the Christmas tree shaped ice cream was so delicious. A huge THANK YOU  to the kitchen staff and helpers who served us. It was delicious.

We have finished and wrapped our calendars and taken them home. We worked very hard on our bees and sunflower drawings and we are so proud of our final designs. Well done everyone!

The Christmas message led by P1-P3 was very touching. It made us really think about the true meaning of Christmas. Mrs ward wrote and amazing story and she directed it really well with Mrs Belleville. We had a lot of fun learning our lines. How many takes….?

We are looking forward to looking at the Christmas doors virtually as it is accompanied by the Kingsland choir and it’s sure to be really amazing.

We are also looking forward to the pantomime which we  are going to watch on the big screen this afternoon. (  Oh yes we are……!!) The pop corn will make us feel like we are at the movies.

Christmas at Kingsland has been very different this year but, it has been a lot of fun and we have many new memories to treasure.

                                Have a very Merry Christmas everyone !

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We had a very special video message from Santa today. It was very exciting. Then his Head Elf helped to deliver the present to our class.

Thank you, Santa for our very special gifts. We are really looking forward to playing with them.

P3 have been thinking about kindness & compassion this block. We decided it would be nice to send some cards & letters to the residents of Riverside House to spread some Christmas cheer. We tried very hard with our letters & we hope the residents enjoy reading them.

P3 really enjoyed decorating our door with trees & snowflakes to create a winter scene.

Some very important little helpers gave Mrs Franklin-Ray a hand to decorate her door.

Doesn’t it look amazing ? Wow !

We love the twinkling stars and  the huge golden star at the top of the tree.

P3B your gingerbread house looks good enough to eat !

You worked very hard on it – it looks amazing !

Your Christmas gnomes look very jolly.

In our Science topic we have been learning what living things need to survive.

Birds need a little help in the Winter to find food and water so we made a simple bird feeder from half an orange.

The strings we measured to 30cm with our ruler so, we had to use Maths in real life too. Our bird feeders can be filled with seed or water.

We are really looking forward to spotting birds feeding from our feeders over the Winter.

Thank you to Mrs. Belleville for organising our links with Riverside. We had a lovely time discussing how we can think of others over the festive season and how it would be a very thoughtful thing to do if we wrote letters to residents in the local care home.

We also enjoyed making poinsettia Christmas cards. This fitted in with our Living and non-living things topic. We had to look very very closely and study  the leaves of the plant and draw their veins. These plants grow best in Rainforests and they like the heat. It was much more challenging than we thought it would be.

We hope the residents at Riverside are cheered up by our festive designs and letters.

P3 have been learning about Living Things in science and they have enjoyed exploring and looking for living things in our school environment. They have applied their understanding to their artwork as they focused on drawing detailed pictures of Autumn leaves and trees, making thick and thin lines.

This week our challenge was to apply the same skills using chalk. The children did a fantastic job and used blending techniques to make the trees and leaves look frosty.

We have been learning to sort the alphabet in the correct order and say the letter names.This will help us to use our wordbooks and find words in a dictionary.

How many letters were there?