I just wanted to let you know our GRAND TOTAL from the Toy fair on Friday.
This year we have raised ….£453.61
Thank you so much for all of your donations and your kind support, the money will be used to fund the pantomime and other Christmas activities.
Today, the whole school made their way to Whitburn parish Church for a beautiful service to celebrate christingle. As always, the children were amazing. Our readers did a fantastic job and the choir were outstanding.
I know that lots of parents would have loved to attend but due to numbers we can only take the children. So, have a look at the photos and films below to see the children in action.
Today the whole school enjoyed an amazing toy fair. Thank you to all of our parents for the fantastic contributions. Our children all enjoyed the ‘shopping’ experience and have taken home a range of new items for the house!
Profits are still being counted, but we will let you know as soon as we have a total.
On Thursday we had an amazing day, it was the 1st December and Marsden made sure everybody felt as festive as possible.
The jumpers some of the children wore were amazing and they all had a great day making a wide range of crafts.
A definite success!
We have had a very interesting week in Year 2 exploring pumpkins.
We began the week reading Winnie’s Amazing Pumpkin.
Then we found out about how a pumpkin grows. There are so many different shapes and sizes so we decided to investigate: does the biggest pumpkin have the most seeds? The children counted hundreds of seeds from four different pumpkins and showed excellent teamwork. The result was … the largest pumpkin did have the most seeds!
To make use of all the pumpkin, we made Winnie’s Pumpkin Soup. All the children showed super chopping skills and the soup was delicious. Lots of children are now going to make it at home!
In Year One we have been learning all about ourselves and our own lives. Last week, we were very lucky as we had two special visitors come and talk to us. Tom and Nora, Lucy’s Great Grandparents, came to talk to us about how life has changed and how school was different in the past. The children were very shocked to find out that Tom and Nora did not play with iPad’s or computers! We asked lots of questions and our visitors told us lots of very interesting facts. We can’t wait to find out more!
Year Two have made their very own rainbow crayons. They are amazing!
It has been a busy time in Year 2.
In English, we have loved reading The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt.
We wrote letters to the crayons to try and help sort their problems out.
We are now reading The Day the Crayons Came Home and have new problems to solve!
In Mathematics, we have enjoyed making maths monsters to improve our knowledge of numbers.
In Art, we have explored primary colours and recreated work by the artist Mondrian.
Finally, in Geography, we have begun learning about our world.
In Year One, we have been learning about the story ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell. We have been working very hard, writing our own stories, learning about owls and acting out the story in small groups. We even had a special visitor come into school to answer our questions about the story. We were very excited when ‘Mummy Owl’ came to talk to us!
On Monday we came together to celebrate achievement across the school and recognise specific children for outstanding achievement. This year our awards were divided into three categories:
* Pride & Presentation
* Progress
* Positive Behaviour
All of the staff spent many hours agonising over the choices and discussing all of the positive aspects of every child. Eventually the decisions were made and the children stood in front of the whole school to accept their awards.
Each child got a book, specially chosen for them, and a special Marsden medal to remember their achievements long into the future.
So, the winners were:
Pride and Presentation:
Nursery AM—Lily-Mae McLaughlin
Nursery PM—Lucas Houston-Hoggarth
Reception—Anya Thomson
Year 1 — Evie Morris
Year 2 — Emily Watson
Year 3 — Alania Ebanks
Year 4 — Alanna McGee
Year 5 — Jessica Juby
Year 6—Amelia Skevington
Progress:
Nursery AM—Rhys Chatterton
Nursery PM—James Barton
Reception—Lainee McGee
Year 1 — Liam Nicholson
Year 2 — Tristan Lee
Year 3 — Shay Hicks
Year 4 — Willow Halliday
Year 5 — Owen Dunn
Year 6 — Lily Brian
Positive Behaviour:
Nursery AM—Phoebe Tate
Nursery PM—Grace Barton
Reception—Sam Ralston
Year 1 — Gabriel Wastell
Year 2 — Alex Hedley
Year 3 — Elizabeth Moore
Year 4 — Deacon Mackie
Year 5 — Grace Graham
Year 6 — Taylor Wright
Well done to all of the winners. You deserve the praise!
Netball – Year 5
Football – Year 5
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