Reception Visit Waterstones Bookshop

Reception O'Keeffe enjoyed an inspiring visit to the Waterstones bookshop in Harrow, today. The children had a wonderful time exploring the shop's dedicated ground-floor children's section, which is packed with a wide variety of picture books and educational titles. It was a joy to see them discovering new stories, browsing through the colorful shelves, and sharing their excitement for reading in such a welcoming, family-friendly environment.

 

Year 1 Update

Year 1 have had a wonderful world book day this week. We have been learning the story of The Three Little Pigs and children have re-written the stories using full sentences and even including some of the famous spoken phrases from the story. For world book day children have been designing collage posters for the school library showing some of their favourite book covers.

Linked to English, in DT, children are exploring the strongest materials for a house. They have tested different materials using a hairdryer to see which materials will be strongest when the wolf is huffing and puffing. Children are using their findings to design and build a new house for the three little pigs.

In Science, children were lucky to get a visit last week from Mrs Q's pet tortoise who was freshly awoken from hibernation. She told the children about how a tortoise looks and what she has to do to look after him. Some children were brave enough to stroke his shell!

In PSHE, Year 1 have been discussing the different ways we can stay healthy and hygienic and why it is important to look after our bodies.

1B and 1K have been lucky enough this week to walk to Kenton library where they were told about how Harrow libraries support the local community. They were shocked to learn that 25 books can be taken out at one time! So many parents in Year 1 have already given in library card application forms which we will hand out to parents once Kenton Library have fully processed them. 1H and 1VG will visit next week. Thank you to all the adults who helped us with the short walk to the library.

 

 

Year 5 Update

 

 

 

Y5 have had a busy start to term. We had Anglo Saxon Day last week and took part in a series of fun activities to help us learn more about Anglo Saxon life. We learnt about how they wrote and used feathers to practice writing as Anglo Saxons would have, made our own game of draughts and made our own coins and jewellery. It was a great way to start our new topic.

We also have started our DT project on fairgrounds by making fairground rides from Knex and looking at how pulleys are used to help the rides move. We will be making our projects over the next few weeks and are looking forward this!

Today was World Book Day and all classes read the Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. We looked at the messages within the book and created some art work based on the illustrations. There were some great ideas and we have displayed them along our corridor.

We still have some children without permission to go on the trip next week to the Gurdwara. If any parents can come and support us we would be grateful for the support.

Year 5 Update