We had an amazing time when Purple Pig Company came to visit us at school. All of our families loved it too!
Click on the link below to see what we got up to…
Category : Community
The Year 6 children from the choir went on a special visit this afternoon. They performed at the HU4 Hub for local residents in the community. It was a lovely afternoon of singing carols and Rebecca brought her flute and played some Christmas some as well. residents enjoys seeing the children sing their Christmas songs. The children were very lucky and got treats and hot chocolate, so I think they enjoyed it too.
Well done children.
Thank you to those who were able to attend the F1 Stay & Play this afternoon.
The children loved showing you all that we do in the unit.
This week in F2, we have continued with our story, The Enormous Turnip. In literacy as well as retelling the story using our signifiers, we had a go at hot seating. This is when one of the children pretends to be a character from the story, and the other children ask them questions. Mia, Forrest, Thomas and Declan took turns at being the farmer and the children thought of some fabulous questions…”why wouldn’t the turnip come out?”, “how did it taste?” and “have you ever grown anything so big?”.
In maths, we continued rotating and manipulating shapes to make more patterns and pictures.
On Wednesday we had a special visitor, Neil from the local Buddhist Centre. He chatted to us about Buddha, explained their beliefs and brought special artifacts which they use. We loved the special bell, drum and sound bowl, which we used while we did some meditation.
In Jigsaw (our PSHE learning) we were thinking about what makes a good friend and how we can make someone who is lonely feel happier.
We have also looked at the history of farming and created some beautiful trees in art, inspired by Kandinsky’s concentric circles.
PE was focused on our football skills; controlling, stopping and dribbling the ball and we also enjoyed different types of jumping… it’s been a very busy week!
F2 have joined in with ‘Beep Beep Day’ today and have been learning to cross the road safely! We read all about ‘Super Cat’ and his four road rules to follow… STOP, LOOK, LISTEN,THINK! The children impressed us all with their knowledge already of road safety and the best and safest places to cross with an adult. We spoke about Zebra crossings and how to cross carefully and safely! The children loved getting out and about and learning this skill practically! We also got a lot of waves off car drivers and a few beeps and smiles!
As part of our topic ‘Houses and Homes’ F2 have been exploring the different types of houses built, exploring vocabulary like ‘detached’, ‘semi-detached’, ‘bungalow’, ‘flat’, ‘caravan’ and ‘terraced’! The children have become very confident at spotting and naming the different types of houses! We also talked about road safety and how to keep safe crossing the roads with our adults. We spoke about stop, look, listen and think and even spotted some local police officer’s on patrol who helped us to cross safely! All the children in Foundation had a brilliant morning on our house hunting walk and worked together to tick off the houses on their scavenger list!
Our Christopher Pickering Book Sale was a huge success! We will be holding another one very soon!
A special thanks goes to the school council for voting for the books sale, helping to organise it and run it!
All proceeds will be put towards playground equipment for the whole school, as voted for by our school council!
Charlotte Eldred is a local artist, based near to Hornsea. She came in recently to create some wonderful window art to help us celebrate our city and our cultural capital of London. She incorporated famous landmarks from both cities, symbols of importance (including our school badges for Christopher Pickering and Ganton). She is incredibly talented.
She was also very complimentary about the children in school and said how polite they had all been when they stopped for a chat with her and to ask questions whilst she created her masterpieces, which is always great to hear.
We’re going on an egg hunt,
We’re going to find a chocolate one.
It’s a rainy day
But we’re not wet!
F1 went searching around school to see if we could find the Easter Bunny. We had no luck at all…
…until we got back to the classroom!
We were so excited that the Bunny came to visit us. Thank you so much for our chocolate eggs too!
Year 3 were very luck to take part in a Yorkshire water workshop this week.
We got to find out lots about how water reaches our home.
Did you know all the water in the world has been here since the world began, there is no new water!
We got to see how water is taken from reservoirs and the process it takes through the water treatment works.
We found out lots of information about what we can put in the toilet and what we shouldn’t put in. We saw how toilet paper breaks down in the water but baby wipes stayed the same. Things like baby wipes can get stuck in pipes and cause them to get blocked. This could then cause a burst pipe because water is very strong.
We also found out lots of ways we can save water as there isn’t always enough. We do things like turn taps off when we are brushing our teeth, taking a shower instead of a bath and water flowers with water we wash our pots with. It is really important to save water because in the summer lots of water gets used and the sun soaks it up too.
