Cooking Club

Miss Bennett is leading a weekly cooking club with children. This week they made soda bread and homemade butter. The children had to focus on their listening and work hard at the dough and the butter making.

Here, the children used lots of endurance in the 'butter dance' to shake to form the butter and separate from the butter milk.

Here is the finished product! Thank you, Miss Bennett! Well done our little Matching Makers!

 

Whole school skipping

Mr Loader's skipping is one of our favourite parts of the school day. It incorporates so many of our values of kindness, friendship, forgiveness and endurance. It requires collaboration where children gradually join in and have to be patient in case someone misses the rhythm of the skip. Children from EYFS to year 6 are practising their skills daily to be able to join the whole school skipping rope, and it is wonderful to see their perseverance. Archie learnt criss-cross this week whilst skipping and was so proud of himself. 

Genesis 2:15

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”

This week, the children have been reflecting on our role in keeping our world a safe and beautiful place and how we need to work hard to make it better. We have learned from Genesis 2, that we can appreciate and care for the world around us as well as each other. To start this, we have introduced litter pickers and bag holders which the children have been using this week to pick up rubbish from our site that has been left.

Jesus calming the story

Mark 4: 35-41

In Collective Worship this week, Reverend Julia shared the image of Jesus calming the storm with the children. The spiritual meaning of Jesus calming the storm is that, even in the midst of life's turmoil and challenges, Jesus has the power to bring peace and stability, demonstrating his divine authority over all things, including the forces of nature, and providing comfort and assurance to believers facing difficult situations. Essentially, it signifies that no matter how severe the storm, Jesus is always present and able to calm the chaos within us.

As part of the Collective Worship, the children took on the role of Jesus and his disciples and acted out the different parts of the story. They responded to the feeling of the storm on the boat and then following Jesus' actions when he woke. 

Reverend Julia asked the children to reflect on their own 'stormy' times and how Jesus can help calm. The children spoke about losing pets, when a toy has broken and even how moving house can feel. 

Valentine's Day

Love has been all around this week for Valentine's Day! Potter class invited someone special to share lunch with on 14th February, reflecting on their own spiritual development of learning to love others. They worked with Miss Bennett to decorate biscuits as a gift for someone they love! The children shared their meal with someone special to them. Thank you to our visitors who joined us.

Express Yourself

As part of Children's Mental Health Week, the children were invited to come to school in non-uniform and express themselves. We had horse-riders, gymnasts, children in their favourite jumpers, expressing themselves with different hair colours and accessories and even their best hats.

Story telling

The children in Potter class have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk this week. They used chalks outside at lunchtime to recreate the beanstalk and drew the garden, the beanstalk and the giant at the top! 

Appreciating our space

The children have shown gratitude for the beauty of our local area this week. We were greeted by a herd of deer in the field behind the school and the children were able to watch them graze over lunch.

It was lovely to observe the children 'stop' and watch and then embrace the visitors throughout their dinner time.