Prep School Round Up 26th March 2021

This week marked one year since we started our home learning program.   We took part in the National Day of Reflection and you can read more about this and see photos from the event here.

The children then continued to ponder and reflect on everything that has happened in the past year and you can view some of the resulting artwork and thoughts in the gallery below.

It’s been yet another fabulous week in Pre-school.  We have had an overarching theme of ‘being healthy’. Looking at this in closer detail and connecting this to the children we have set up a Pre-School café! This has been manned by a different café owner each day and what a fabulous job they have done. They have painted spring daffodils and named parts of the flower with amazing outcomes. I was also lucky enough to help pupils make their dream catchers this week.

In Reception, I enjoyed joining in and making Easter chick prints with our handprints. We decided that my handprint was so huge that it would be ‘mummy duck’ to all their baby chicks. As well as some ‘secret’ Easter activities, they have looked at  Easter celebrations and the meaning of ‘endangered animals’ and the fact that no one is too small to help make a change to the world. Our Reception pupils are becoming very knowledgeable, caring young citizens.

Year 2 have been reading and writing poetry about oceans. They started the week exploring seaweed, shells and other treasures from the shoreline before writing poems inspired by Micheal Rosen. Today they had ice lollies and then wrote poems inspired by their sticky goodness!

In science, this week, Year 3 have been learning about muscles and enjoying learning that the largest muscle is called the gluteus maximus! In English, they have been learning to use speech marks and we also enjoyed learning about the Anglo-Saxon Treasure ship find at Sutton Hoo.

In Year 4, this week, the children have begun studying Macbeth and have loved discussing and writing about the different characters, particularly the multi-faceted character of Macbeth himself. They have also enjoyed learning about some delicious traditional Brazilian dishes such as ‘feijoada’ and ‘brigadeiro’

There has been a lot of science to talk about this week for both Year 5 and 6.  Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed making their own Flubber…multi coloured slime. They have been studying Forces and were able to use their slime to investigate this topic truly hands on!!  Meanwhile, Year 6 have been completing their projects on S.A.V.E (Science against the Virus everywhere). This has involved group work and even through the lockdown they continued to develop their ideas. They have a shadow puppet theatre and board games. We are looking forward to seeing the videos of them presenting these projects.

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Having the pupils back at school means that they have now been able to participate in some House sports fixtures as well.  This week we have the following results.

Prep Sports Results;

Yr 5/6 Football - 1st Wantage

                           2nd Sellon 

                           3rd Pusey

                           4th Downton

Yr 3/4 Cross Country

Winners - Charlie Harris and Edie Russell

1st - Downton

2nd -Wantage

3rd- Sellon

4th - Pusey

Yr 5/6 Cross Country

Winners - Cas Bol and Amelia Carter Mcgregor

1st - Pusey

2nd -Sellon

3rd -Downton

4th -Wantage

Finally, we are hoping to be able to share some school performances with you next term.  To that end, the children have been working incredibly hard during their rehearsals.  Pre-school and Reception are preparing a performance around ‘The Three Little Pigs’, Years 1 and 2 are rehearsing for their Summer concert and Year 6 have this week started to work on the songs for their end of summer show, ‘The Tempest’.

Certificates this week;

Pre-school - Laura Cowburn for her resilience and adaptability within school.

Reception - Poppy Sargeant for her mature and sensible behaviour.

Year 1 - Artur Kalita for an enthusiastic attitude at all times.

Year 2 - Jackson Ferguson for his perseverance.

Year 3 - Albi Paice for being an enthusiastic and helpful member of the class.

Year 4 - Alicja Kalita for helping to tidy away the board games.

Year 5 - Oak Conway for being such a kind and thoughtful member of the class.

Year 6 - Lilian Harris for having a positive attitude and being a kind and thoughtful friend.