Hello Families!

I hope you all enjoyed our October break.  Our short week included some of the following highlights:

Layla enjoyed the autumn leaf art we made using soft pastels.  Yesterday you will have noticed that they children took home some beautiful autumn art.  They began by cutting out their own leaf templates, held them still on a black background and used their free hand to blend soft autumn coloured pastels around the template.  They all looked amazing when they were finished!

Jude liked listening to our class novel ‘The Smelliest Day at the Zoo’ by Alan Rusbridger.  The laughter has reached all corners of the school as the children have listened to how the animal’s poo piled up in the zoo as there was a problem with the drains.  We have learned some interesting things about animal poo this week:  it makes great fertilizer, a dung beetle can eat up to 50grams of poo a day (we then held a 50g weight and thought it would of been heavier!), male porcupines pee on female porcupines and turkey vultures pee and poo on themselves!  We were shocked!  Our story is now regretfully coming to an end.  The children are going to vote for their next novel which will be a choice between, ‘Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick’ by Francesca Simon or ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.

Alexa liked the prayers we wrote to God on leaf templates, thanking Him for all the beautiful colours around us just now in nature.  They are going to form a beautiful tree in the classroom on our RE display (look our for the picture next time).

DaisyDee was excited to hear about our new topic is called ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ and is particularly excited to learn about marriage after she heard we would be designing our own wedding dresses!

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was seeing the children again after the October break as I had missed them.