Celebration Gallery
March
Decorate an Easter Egg Competition & Easter Raffle Hampers!
Red Nose Day Pudding!
Well done to the Year Four Pupils who made an excellent presentation for the Warwickshire Library Services, bringing home a trophy and certificates.
Last term, the Year Four classes enjoyed reading The Singing Ringing Tree by Jane Ray, and the libraries competition challenged us to have a creative response to the book. As well as artwork, we have enjoyed drama and music, which the girls presented clearly and confidently. Well done!
World Book Day 2024!
Year 3 & 4 loved trying out different circus skills when the Joy Circus visited us on Friday.
It was really difficult balancing on the different bikes, but Macie was in her element. "It was fun because it's fast and dinky!"
Some children showed great resilience, mastering the hat flip! "It's really tricky getting the hat in the right place and dead frustrating when it landed upside-down." (Ollie)
It was fabulous watching children learn how to juggle - and the joy was evident to see.
After persevering, Tahlia, Alice and Jasmine felt great walking on stilts.
As part of their DT project, Panama class are looking at making the treats we enjoy healthier. Over the weekend, some of the children tried our dead-easy, really tasty banana ice-cream. Ollie said, "It's delicious!"
You will need:
1 banana
Instructions:
Peel the banana
Chop it into 2cm chunks
Pop into the freezer overnight
The next day, mash your banana (if it's a bit too hard, let it soften for a while).
Finally, enjoy this nutritious treat!
Reception were very lucky to have a Drama company come in and run a workshop for them. As the children have been reading 'The Tiger who came to Tea' a special emphasis was put on to this story and the children acted out the characters (with many of them being pieces of furniture and props) to encourage them to see how everything is important within the story and how drama can allow them to be anyone or anything. They were also able to act out many of the animals which we have been discovering throughout our 'Roar' topic and think about how the movements could be used to demonstrate which animals they were. Everyone had lots of fun and they really enjoyed expressing themselves and learning new skills.
Bluebells and KS1 after-school club are busy working towards the Hedgehog Friendly Award mark. This week we have taken delivery of some old bricks which we are turning into a hedgehog house. Bluebells have worked hard to carry the bricks and make a model of the house. We just need to find the perfect place for it in the woodland area.
February
There's something growing in the Bluebells garden! We have started to transform our outdoor area in Bluebells into a sensory landscape. We have already planted 5 fruit trees, which will be amazing in Autumn and this week we have been busy planting willow to create our very own living den and willow sculpture area. Very exciting!
Year 1 Sombrero's looking at partitioning using dienes.
Year 1 enjoying Design Technology - making and eating their own fruit pancakes!
Year 1's new topic: Searching for wild things.
The Lonely Beast visited the school with muddy footprints to find new friends and left the children clues to find a book all about him!
Berets enjoyed supporting Boaters with their times tables learning by showing them how to use TT Rockstars.
Reception parents were invited to an interactive Maths Mastery workshop.
The aim was to provide parents with ideas and confidence in supporting their child in their early maths journey as well as offering an incite into how we can make maths more interactive in everyday situations.
The event was very well supported and we thank those of you who were able to attend.
Bluebells - this half-term we are learning about our bodies and how to keep healthy. For our launch day we learned about the importance of our wonderful NHS and became doctors and nurses for the day. We did some First Aid on each other, and even tried CPR on a cushion. In Forest School ,one of our toys had an accident so we had to create a stretcher for it.
Panamas had a fabulous launch day for our new topic, Bright Lights, Big City.
We started off trying circus skills, such as juggling, balancing on the high wire, leaping through a ring of fire and balancing on the trapeze.
After that, we learnt about light and dark by experiencing lots of amazing light sources, and exploring whether you can see in the dark.
Back in class, we created two sensational masterpieces. The first one was a silhouette of bright lights and a big city, where we used metallic paint to make a shimmering sunset. In the second picture, we were inspired by Henri Matisse.
"It was interesting using different mediums to layer the pictures." Alfie
"It was a really exciting day because we got to climb the climbing frame like a trapeze." Reece
"I liked it because everyone experienced all the activities whereas in an actual circus you just watch." Ollie
"I loved how we mixed up the colours in the different paintings." Tahlia
"I really liked our topic launch day because we used metallic paints and cut out shapes and figure for the Matisse artwork." Alice
Year Two have worked incredibly hard on their writing - producing some amazing non-fiction pieces about Antarctica!
They enjoyed sharing their 'All About Antarctica' information pages with their friends from year six today!
Panamas have been working collaboratively today, working with their friends to write a section of the story The Singing Ringing Tree. It has been really tricky writing from the evil goblin's perspective but we are very proud of our work.
January 2024
It is the RSPB's Big Annual Bird watch, which is taking place across the UK from 26th to 28th January. Hundreds of people across the country are collecting data for the RSPB about British Garden birds for scientific research.
Bluebells have had a lovely morning completing their Big Annual Bird watch - who knew there were so many different birds flying around Outwoods.
Panamas were excited to receive post from Edinburgh today. We can't wait to find out more about the capital city of Scotland, and we might even listen to some Scottish music.
Panama listened to Two Tribes on vinyl, then saw it on a video of Top of the Pops. Overall, they enjoyed it but said they would probably not choose to listen to it again.
"I like the rhythm and the way it sort of went, "Dum, dum, dah," It made you want to move." Alice
"I didn't really like it but the lyrics were slow in my head so I could hear the message." Tommy
"It was like 1980s music, like shouty and dancy," Peppi
Year 3 and 4 had a great start to term, taking part in a 'Disco through the decades' to launch our new Topic - Battle of the Bands. They enjoyed listening to different genres of music and dancing to them in different ways.
We had a special visitor....
Bluebells.....
Bluebells used a VR headset this morning to go for a sleigh ride in Lapland! IT WAS EPIC!
Gardening Club
Making our outdoor space look more festive.
Bluebells ....
....have been busy writing Christmas cards and invitations to our Christmas Fayre. We wrote them to members of staff and Cilla (of course). Yesterday we delivered our Christmas spirit to everyone around school. We had a wonderful time!
Festivities around School!
Trip to the Panto for Year 2 - 6
Everyone had a great time at Beauty and the Beast. Here's a sneak peak at the cast!
Christmas Jumper Sale
Well done to the School Council who raised £50.05 selling Christmas Jumpers on Friday afternoon. Enjoy these pictures of the council getting ready for the sale, right up to our JOB DONE photo at the end of the day. We would like to thank the families who donated jumpers and contributions to make this a success!
07.11.23 - Topic Launch Day for Year 3 & 4
We launched our new topic "Heim." This topic is all about The invasion of Anglo-Saxon Britain by the Vikings.
We had a visit from Erik the Viking who told us lots about the Vikings, when they came to Britain and why they came. He showed us what kinds of clothes they would've worn and what they were made from. We got to try on some of the clothes and uniforms of the soldiers. The chain mail protection they wore was really heavy and so were the swords and spears.
Erik brought with him lots of interesting artefacts for us to look at. He showed us how they would've made coins back then and one of us helped him to actually make coins. We played a brilliant game, selecting different mystery artefacts and trying to guess what they were used for. The Vikings had some very clever tools for carving and cooking.
We talked about when the Vikings went to battle with the Anglo-Saxons and we discussed why. Each class created battle cry/chant. They were so good!
Nursery Enrichment Week
Hispanic Week - Tues 7th - Fri 10th November 2023
October 2023
Year Two enjoyed singing and reading poems at the Key Stage One Harvest Festival!
Forest Schools
Bluebells had a fabulous time in Forest Schools this week. The children wore blindfolds and worked with a partner and as a team to guide each other through a sensory rope walk.
Everyone loved it and there were smiles all round!
Year 3 and 4 enjoying Egyptian Day!
Panamas had so much fun deepening our understanding of the Egyptians during Egyptian Day. Our classroom was filled with pharaohs, gods, queens and archaeologists all finding out about mummification, settlements, pyramids and Egyptian bread.
We mummified a short pharaoh, as well as Pharaoh Pumpkinseeds, and we built pyramids in as many ways as we could. There was a lot of co-operation, and building a card pyramid really tests your resilience!
Egyptian bread was very yummy!
Year Four Egyptologists explored ancient Egypt, looking for relics that could tell us about the Egyptians. We explored underground tunnels, where we found clues on the roof and walls. We dug in the sandy desert and chipped away at sandstone cliffs, hoping to uncover the secrets of the past. Once we found artefacts, we used textbooks and the internet to find out about them. Look how busy we were!
