Food Technology Investigating the differences between white and wholemeal flour.

Saffron working on her school Food Technology- investigating food from Mexico and making fajitas.

Decorated biscuits for Red Nose Day.

Stanley proudly displaying his oatmeal biscuits.

Red Nose Day 2015

Kyra and Robin concentrating well on decorating their biscuits. Meg getting ready to visit the ward and tempt people with the cookery products! We celebrated Red Nose Day on two days and once again, the pupils enjoyed working for fundraising. Biscuits and Cakes were made and decorated with a red nose theme. We also held a raffle and the pupils were excellent Ambassadors from the school room and helping to raise money for the charity. In total £137.51 was collected for Red Nose Day.

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Readwell Book Trolley Our Readwell trolley, very kindly given to us from this charity which together with Readathon is part of Read for Good, is con-tinuing to be a brilliant success with children and teenagers. We feel very privileged to have it. We have seven deliveries a year of 120 brand new books which range from picture books to books for teenagers. If a child is enjoying a particular book, they are even allowed to keep it! The selection that are chosen is excellent and the staff love unpacking the next set to see the new range, enjoy sharing them with the children and long to read some of the longer books themselves

Another feature of Readwell is organ-ising a professional storyteller to come and work with children in the schoolroom and on the ward to demonstrate his love of reading and stories to them and promote a love of reading through it. We were very lucky to have Michael, our Storyteller, twice this term. He came in once when it was National Storytelling Week and then again for World Book Day. Here he is above with Luis and Dylan acting out the story that they created.

Playing phase 3 phoneme bingo with R and KS1 children and sharing a book with Hugo.

Michael the Storyteller on World Book Day when our theme was Witches and Wizards.

Michael the Storyteller with Luis and Dylan.

SMSC—cultural A pupil was studying China at her school, so one of the teachers brought in her Mother’s resources from when she her-self lived there as a child. These included tiny shoes that women even up to the 1930s (in the countryside) wore on their bound feet. The pupil was fascinated by their intricate embroidered designs and amazed how they could walk on them! Other items were silk clothes for people and for dolls, toys, shopping baskets.

Here Ann is painting a normal size silk shoe that she enjoyed trying on. Wellbeing topics have been Holocaust Memorial Day, Safer Internet Day, Black Awareness Week. Water purity, Celebrating Spring.

British Values

Leanne’s comments on “What makes me British.” Sunday roast dinner; Cadbury’s dairy milk chocolate; Fish and chips; Free education; Free hospital care; Summer holidays; Caravanning. Mangisi’s comments on what makes me British: I am happy at school; Having friends; I like my Teachers; I like living here in Gloucestershire; I enjoy drinking tea; That’s who I am! Mangisi also learnt the history behind the Union Jack.

Writing inspired by a Visitor Science in the School Room Bethanie en-joyed the practicals to support her learning in Electricity. Here she is with a crystal radio that she made and a science quiz that she de-signed using her knowledge

of circuits. Art in the School Room This term the pupils studied the paintings and technique of Rousseau. Here are 2 paintings in his style of his Tropical Storm

with a Tiger, one of them Betha-nie’s.

History in the School Room

Maths in the School Room

Ella proudly showing her models when studying measure-ment

Solar Eclipse 2015 This is a rare phenomenon in which the sun is completely obscured by the moon. Here the pupils are using a pinhole on card to look at the eclipse in a safe manner. In the picture of the eclipse, a paler crescent shape of the sun can be seen on the left hand side as the brighter moon has nearly cov-ered most of the sun’s surface.