Today we made chapatti – just like from our key text Chapatti Moon. However, our Chapatti stayed in the pan and didn’t roll away. Thank you Mrs Williams (aka Mrs Kapoor) for helping us make and cook our delicious chapattis. #LovePlover
Y3/4 Netball Reminder Thursday 20th
These children are taking part in the Netball competition on Thursday: Corben C, Riley W, Omar A, Sergei S, Vlad C, Angel R, Sophie M, Phoebe G, Nevaeh D, Ines P.
The Y3/4 Netball tournament at Laurel Academy is going ahead as normal on Thursday. The safety and well being of the children is the most important thing and precautions have been taken with the forecast being COLD, please can you ensure all children have:Â
Wooly hats, gloves, thick jumpers, warm waterproof coats, skins/thermals (if they have them), warm socks, trainers.
Courage in Year 5
Last week, our Year 5 children showed incredible courage as they took on a special mini-project all about the RSPCA. From the very beginning, they threw themselves into learning about animal welfare and the important work the charity does – approaching each task with enthusiasm, bravery, and curiosity.
As part of the project, the children explored real-life skills such as budgeting, percentages, and planning for fundraising or awareness campaigns. These topics can be challenging, but Year 5 tackled them head-on, showing confidence and determination as they worked through problems and made thoughtful decisions.
One of the highlights of the week was the creation of their beautiful leaflets promoting the Five Welfare Needs of Animals. Each leaflet was a fantastic blend of creativity and compassion, demonstrating not only their understanding of animal care but also their commitment to raising awareness in the wider school community.
We are incredibly proud of Year 5 – not just for the quality of their work, but for the courage they showed in trying new things, asking questions, and thinking deeply about how to help animals in need.
Well done, Year 5! Keep being brave, thoughtful, and brilliant.
Just another Mathsy Monday…
It’s a good job the children had their brains switched on today! Mrs Bubb kept forgetting how to count carefully so the children had to remimd her! These were the rules they made:
- Say the numbers in the correct order.
- Move only one object for each number you say.
- Stop counting at your stopping number. (This tells you how many).
After correcting Mrs Bubb, the children had a go. Some of us needed reminding to stop at the stopping number but by the end, we all had thumbs up for being careful counters!
F2 PE
Hansel and Gretel workshop
Wow, what an amazing morning we have had today! We were so lucky to have Kerry and Tash come in from CAST Theatre, to teach us the story of Hansel and Gretel, through drama. The children enjoyed getting into the roles of the different characters and exploring props. Once we had finished we went back to the create doughnuts, for the gingerbread house flooring, which we will see in CAST theatre when we go to visit. We are so excited to go and work with Kerry and Tash again at CAST theatre in a couple of weeks, and watch the performance of Hansel and Gretel.
Mrs Williams was so proud of how well everyone participated in this workshop, and the great respect and integrity all children showed towards our visitors. Well done nursery!
Mrs Williams
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Children In Need
On Friday we learnt about why we raise money for children in need. We had lots of Pudsey fun in the process!
Mrs Williams
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Christmas fayre donations
We are kindly asking for donations for our Christmas fayre. We do have a non-uniform day coming up in exchange for bottles for our infamous bottle stall and sweets/chocolate for our sweet and chocolate tombola .
In addition to our non-uniform day, if anyone has any prizes for our raffle or normal tombola, we would be so grateful. If anyone knows of any small businesses who may donate etc that would be amazing.
All funds raised will go towards our Christmas pantomime which we have every year and other school events.
Thank you so much for your support.
-Miss Blackham
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Y6 boosters
Y6 boosters will start the week commencing the 24th November and will consist of the following:
Monday 8:20- SPaG with Miss Blackham
Tuesday 8:20- Reading with Miss Blackham
Wednesday 8:20- arithmetic with Miss Blackham
Thursday 8:20- reasoning with Miss Blackham
Thursday 3:30-4:15 arithmetic with Miss Blackham
Thursday 3:30-4 Reading with Miss Lotysz
Some additional sessions will begin after Christmas and these groups will be by invite only. I will personally contact the parents of those children.
Singing in Sandall park- Sunday 7th December 9:45-10:30
I cannot believe 40 children have already signed up to represent Plover singing in Sandall park. If anyone else would like to join us, you have until Thursday 20th November to return your letter. We will start practising on Friday 21st November.
Children will need to be at Sandall Park at 9:45 to meet before our set at 10am. I cannot wait for us to spread some Christmas cheer and I hope lots of parents and carers can come to support us.
-Miss Blackham
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