Week 8: Diwali celebrations!

I hope you have all had a brilliant half term break and enjoyed an extra hour in bed on Sunday morning. What exciting things have you all been doing?

This week we will be celebrating Diwali with a shared activity day on Tuesday. Remember- you can come to school dressed for the occasion in brightly coloured clothes if you wish.

One of the major features of Diwali is the famous story of Prince Rama and his wife Sita. The story comes from a book called the Ramayana and is popular among Hindus everywhere. It is sometimes retold using pictures and dance. Try to find out about the story. Are Diwali celebrations similar to any other celebrations that you know?  

Week 7- Harvest Preparations

What an exciting week we had last week! I’m pleased to hear that you enjoyed our visits to the Sports’ Festival at AMVC and the Hindu Temple in Peterborough. Share this short film with your parents and tell them all about our wonderful experience.

This week we will be preparing for our Harvest Service on Friday. Hopefully some of you will get a reply from the letters you wrote inviting guests to join us for that celebration? Mrs Humphreys will be taking ‘baking groups’ on Thursday to prepare the refreshments.

This week’s Blog Challenge- Noah saw 12 legs walk past him on their way into the Ark. How many creatures did he see? What is the least number of creatures he could have seen? What is the greatest...? Explain your ideas.

Open Morning

I need to pass on a special thanks to all the Year 6 children who showed our visitors around this morning. The parents were very impressed with your conduct and behaviour and both Mr Wainwright and myself are very proud of you all- well done!

Week 6 - Animal Antics!

The theme for this week will be Indian wildlife. I hope you are already busy researching different animals for your homework task. We also have a special ‘Blog Challenge’. Practise your WOW words and descriptive vocabulary and write a description of an animal in no more than 50 words. Post it on the Blog and we will see if we can guess what your animal might be.

On Tuesday the Year 6 children will be showing our visitors around school at Open Morning. We have 2 visits planned this week; on Wednesday we are visiting AMVC for a Sports’ Festival (don’t forget the early 8.50am start) and on Thursday we will be visiting the Hindu Mandir in Peterborough.

And finally- our class cake stall last week raised a grand total of £96.39- well done everyone!

Week 5- 'Wonderful Writing' and learning about different climatic regions in India

Well done everyone for making such a brilliant start on our Class Blog last week! If you need help adding a comment, I can go through it again with you this week. Following the visit from Penny from Action Aid, you should all be busy with this week's homework on Life In Chembakolli.
Our India topic is now well under way and  we will be continuing with our printing and finding out more about the different climatic regions within India. Get ready to be Wonderful Writers- I can't wait to read your stories about Jaspal and Nazakhat!