Snow day

I hope that everyone is keeping warm during the snowy cold weather!

Snowy BTEC

Just to let you know that we will do our dress up day next Friday 7th February at 9.15 am 

Do not forget that it is Book Week Dress Up Day tomorrow - Friday 31st January.
Children can come dressed as their favourite book character you are invited to come and see our costume parade at 9.15 am

Dear Parents,

It was good to see so many parents at the Meet the Teacher events this week. We always value feedback about how you feel your child is doing or how we can work together better. Thank you for putting aside time in your busy schedules to come. If these days were not convenient for you we would be pleased to offer you an alternative. Please make sure that you have collected your child’s reports if you did not attend.

Book Week

27^th until 31^st January will be ‘Book Week’. We will be doing many activities to encourage our children to develop a love for reading. Each class will choose an author and read books written by them. We will be decorating the school with the work we do.

Bring your favourite book or story to school

We would like to ask the children to bring their favourite book or story to school. It can be in English or their home language.

Dress up day Friday 31^st January - 9.15 am

On Friday the children are invited to dress up as their favourite storybook character. You are invited to come to see our special book day parade and look at the work that the children have been doing in class. Last year we were amazed at how creative everyone was and some of our staff enjoyed dressing up as much as the children!

Parents read a story

We are also looking for volunteer parents to come and read or tell a story to the children. This could be a traditional story or a picture book in any language. Please let your class teacher know if and when you would like to do this.

Best wishes,

Alison Ocak

Maths and Logic

Dear parents,

We began the second half of the educational year. I wish great success to all of us this term.
Today we did some maths and logic which helps them to learn to solve problems. These exercises help them to identify shapes, colours and sizes, sort and classify by properties and patterns as well as develop logical thinking skills. Here are some examples of them.

Christmas and New Year activities

One of the favorite activities of our children is cutting and gluing.This time we made colorful party hats.
The interesting point is that we made them with so called "ebru" painting.This is an old technology of painting with sustainable paints on water.In our activity instead of these paints,we used glitter paints on water.And here is the result.
First we cut shapes and fixed them

 Then we poured so called glitter paints on water and rolled our ready hats.

Christmas and New Year activities

Our smart children showed their ability to make cookies. First they added all the ingredients into the bowl one by one and then mixed them.

 Then they cut them into different shapes and put then in the oven with the help of adults.

I think it was a great pleasure for them, to eat the cookies they baked themselves)

Christmas New Year activities

Preparing eatable christmas trees from flour, oil and melted marshmallows. The children themselves mixed the ingredients and handled the dough.

Then they decorated it with different glitter sparkles.

Christmas and New Year activities

Cutting and decorating Christmas stocking (socks)

 In this activity children get information about the christmas traditions,why do the children hang socks on the fireplace.

Christmas and New Year activities

Nice penguins from light bulbs - in this activity the children learnt about fragile materials and being very careful with them. These are christmas penguins, as they have red hats!