School News

Last Thursday, we had a return visit from Paul Turner from the charity 'Sustrans' with the results of the air quality testing carried out before Half Term.  On his last visit, Paul and Eco Council put up three nitrous dioxide diffusion tubes - one in a classroom, one on the field and one just outside the main entrance.   The results showed were concerning as the amount of nitrous dioxide in the air is above the WHO recommended levels

   Year 1 and 2 have been working so hard on their performance of the Nativity. Year 1 have been singing and dancing whilst Year 2 have been telling the story of the birth of Jesus. 

   Art club and Art council worked hard to create their own Christmas decorations using the theme of the Fruit of the Spirit to inspire their designs.  The decorations are currently on display as part of the Offington Park Methodist Church Christmas Tree festival, taking place from Thursday 2nd -5th December. The festival is open to the public and is a free event. For further information, visit: https://offingtonpark.org.uk

To celebrate the end of our topic we held a Knight Day! We all dressed up in costumes and completed lots of knight activities. We made shortcrust pastry and chopped apples to make apple tarts, learnt medieval dances and how to joust before holding a banquet in the afternoon where we met King James who knighted us! 

In Year 5 we have recently researched and learnt all about Ancient Egyptian Canopic jars - what they were used for and where they were found. The Canopic jars were decorated with the heads of the four sons of Horus. We then created our own designs and finally made them out of polystyrene cups, newspaper, masking tape and mod-roc. Once the canopic jar was dry, we painted them with appropriate colours and evaluated the process.