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Wild Challenge Bronze Award
Thu 27 Apr 2023A HUGE congratulations to all the children in the Curious Crabs for completing a variety of activities to promote nature within the school and receiving the Wild Challenge Bronze award. The children have explained what they have had to do:
We built a bug hotel and we have a bird feeder on the window. Each day a robin comes to feed from the bird feeder, especially when we are doing phonics. We have also used our senses to engage with nature. We have done a sound walk and we have matched colours with the season. We have shaken trees to see what minibeats live in them. We have planted potatoes and other vegetables. We have had lots of fun completing the challenge.
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ilke Homes visit
Fri 21 Apr 2023Our children in Reception had a great time when ilke Homes came into school before half term.
The development team from ilke Homes explained how the new homes on Rolleston Drive are manufactured and brought to site. The children then had the chance to try on PPE and learn about safety on site.
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Eggcellent Easter Fun!
Fri 31 Mar 2023This week has been very exciting, particularly with Wellbeing Days taking place on Monday and today, along with our ‘eggciting’ egg rolling and decorating competition yesterday.
The children had a fantastic time competing in the egg rolling. Each child initially competed against their classmates to get a class winner. Each of the class winners are as follows:
Mollie (Brilliant Bunnies), Leo (Brave Bears), Toby (Courageous Caterpillars), Lenny (Curious Crabs), Charlie (Perky Pandas), Ava (Kind Koalas).
The winners from each class went into a grand final and after some tense rolling, the overall winner was Leo (Brave Bears). Well done, Leo – I wouldn’t want to go ten pin bowling with you!
Also, a huge well done to everyone that took part in the egg decorating too. I absolutely loved looking at all of the amazing designs. I know Miss Creber had a very difficult job in choosing the winners! After much deliberation, the following winners were chosen:
Eric (Brilliant Bunnies), Joanna (Brave Bears), Rio (Courageous Caterpillars), Arabella (Curious Crabs), Louie Ch (Perky Pandas), Samhita (Kind Koalas).
Well done children, and thank you to Friends of Woodthorpe Infants for organising the prizes for the winners!
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Ducklings and a Disco
Fri 17 Mar 2023It has been a very exciting and fun week at WIS with the arrival of the duck eggs on Monday and so many of the children dancing the night away at the disco on Thursday! We have had four ducklings hatch so far and we are keeping our fingers crossed for the last one. I must also take this opportunity to thank the Friends of Woodthorpe Infants for organising another fantastic disco for the children, and also the staff for staying and supervising the children. The DJ was brilliant and kept the children entertained throughout!
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Reading Recommendations
Fri 10 Mar 2023At WIS, we love reading so much. Each week children recommend a book to the rest of the school that they love reading at the moment. If your child would like to recommend a book, they can bring it in to school and show it to Mr Hopkinson.
Finlay (Perky Pandas) LOVES reading Yuck! because the boy throws his underwear on his sister's head.
Leon (Courageous Caterpillars) LOVES reading Spider-Man High Voltage! because Peter Parker knows when there is danger.
Daphne (Courageous Caterpillars) LOVES reading Spinderella because you have to count.
Edith (Courageous Caterpillar) LOVES reading Human Body: What do you want to find out? because it shows you how the human body gets bigger.
Evie (Courageous Caterpillar) LOVES reading The Unbelievable Truth About Unicorns because the unicorn vomits rainbows.
Violet (Courageous Caterpillar) LOVES reading Weird because she likes the page with the rhino on because it is really funny.
Teddy (Courageous Caterpillar) LOVES reading Zog because he likes it when the dragons go upside down.
Cohen (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Doodle Bites because it is funny when he bites the elephant's bottom.
Phoebe (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Dogs because it is funny.
Isaac (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Go tell it to the toucan because he likes the page that shows you what all the animals said to each other.
Grace (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Paddington Out and About because she likes going on holiday and likes it when Paddington goes on holiday.
Alice (Courageous Caterpillars) LOVES reading The Big Breakfast because Biff has to put powder on all of the wigs.
Harry (Curious Crabs) LOVES reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway because he likes it when the boy nearly breaks the banana boat.
Molly (Curious Crabs) LOVES reading Little People, Big Dreams: Marie Curie because she likes the page when Marie hugs Pierre.
Toby (Curious Crabs) LOVES reading Pokemon: Ash's Big Challenge because Ash gets a new friend.
Leo (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading There was a Wee Lassie who swallowed a Midgie because he likes it when all of the animals get washed out of her.
Alfie (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Whatever Next! because Baby Bear pretends the cardboard box is a rocket.
Coralie (Curious Crabs) LOVES reading Look Up! because she likes it when the dinosaur breathes out fire.
Evelyn (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Dinosaurs Love Underpants because she likes it when the dinosaurs are fighting with the pants.
Gabriel (Brilliant Bunnies) LOVES reading Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dinosaur because he likes the page with all of the dinosaurs in because he likes flying and walking animals. -
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Fri 10 Mar 2023It has been a very exciting week with the snow we have had, as I am sure you can imagine. It has been lovely seeing the children have an amazing time playing in it, and quite amusing at times seeing staff trying to keep the children engaged when snow can be seen outside the classroom windows!
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Barney the Assistance Dog
Thu 19 Jan 2023It has been an exciting week for the children in Foundation 2 as they had a very special visitor – Barney the assistance dog. Barney was joined by his owner, Sarah, who spoke to the children about all the important things Barney does to help her, from picking up her keys if she drops them to letting her mum know if Sarah is feeling unwell. The children learnt about all the different kinds of working dogs and what their special jobs are. A big thank you to Sarah and Barney!
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Welcome back
Mon 09 Jan 2023Welcome back and happy new year! I hope you all managed to spend some quality time with your families over the holidays. It has been wonderful having the children back in school again and seeing their smiley faces. Just a reminder for your Year 2 parents/carers that applications for Year 3 places need to be submitted by Sunday 15th January.
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Songs at Woodthorpe Manor Nursing Home
Mon 19 Dec 2022We have just returned from Woodthorpe Manor Nursing Home with the year 2 children. The residents thoroughly enjoyed listening to the children sing some Christmas carols and songs from their Nativity.
The children represented the school brilliantly - I am so proud of them!
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Amazing Nativity Performances
Fri 16 Dec 2022Nativity performances are all over and the children have done themselves proud - they were amazing!
Thank you to everyone that has managed to see and support the children over the past few days. The children have loved performing in front of an audience!
