Learning in the school garden.

Learning in the School Garden.

The Autumn has arrived in all its beauty. Last week, the children from the gardening club collected samples of coloured leaves from the trees growing around the school playgrounds.

We dried them and used to make snap cards. We stuck the leaves to cards, found out the names of the trees they came from and labelled them. 

Playing the snap game, we could learn the names of 12 trees and one climber from our surroundings,

such as ash: crab apple, birch, wild cherry, maple, prunus, oak, hazel, lime tree, sycamore, willow, cypress and ivy.

Gardening club have been harvesting!

After school last week the gardening club harvested potatoes which they had planted and this week it was onions. I could smell those onions from a mile away!

They washed and prepared the vegetables so cooking club can use them to make potato rosti's tomorrow, yummy!

Watch this space for pictures of the delicious, fresh food they will be making and eating.

Keep on using the environment to learn :) 

Could you plant with you children? Could you harvest and wash vegetables at home? 

Why not give it a try?!

Well done to our amazing gardeners!

Wow! Well done to Shirley Warren School, Mrs Wilk and the gardening club, you have achieved a silver award in the category of 'Garden for Learning'.

Southampton in Bloom was a whole school project with children from all year groups planting, nurturing and helping to grow their patches.

Year 1 planted lettuces, Year 2 broad beans, Year 3 spinach and green peas, Years 4 and 5 aubergines and a gooseberry stub.

Gardening club expressed their joy: 'We learnt how to look after vegetables by watering them, tieing them up and removing green flies and caterpillars'.

KS1 planted: beans, onions, tomatoes, courgettes, sweet pepper and sowed beetroots, carrots, marigolds, nasturtium and cosmos.

KS2 planted potatoes, strawberries, courgettes, pumpkins, sunflowers, french beans. they also made a herb garden of dill, parsley, coriander and basil.

Who would like to join gardening club next half term?...

Fantastic Footballers

After school on Wednesday I was at Testlands Hub to watch my son play football for another school and look who I saw!

The boys from Years 5 and 6 played really well.  They won their first match 3:1 and lost the second 4:0 (neither against my son's school so I could cheer them on!)  It was lovely to join parents, siblings and grandparents cheering on the sidelines and great to see children I teach showing different skills to classroom work.

Special thanks must go to Mr Ship and Mr Kelly who organise and coach the children.  Keep it up, Team Shirley Warren!

From Mrs Williams
(Support Teacher, Year 6)

Eco Club start preparing for an upclycled Christmas!

Today, Eco club were having a fantastic time upcycling materials to make Christmas decorations, with the help of Mrs Bedwell.

Eco Club meets after school on a Tuesday to help our school look after the environment and the resources we have been given.
Thank you, Eco Club!

Can you tell what they have made these Glitter Globes out of?

Percussion Club

We were visited by Matt Brombley from the music service today, who told us all about Percussion Club. EVerybody from Year 2 to Year 6 is invited to come along after school on Fridays for drumming fun!

Drummers Perform at Admin Conference

Our after school drumming club were very honoured to be asked to perform at the Holiday Inn for the Admin Conference for Southampton. The children were led my Matt Brombley from Southampton Music Hub. Mrs Worley and Mrs Buckingham were in the audience to cheer them on! The children performed brilliantly and we are so proud of them representing our school - well done guys!

Bamboo Tamboo

The Percussion Club have been playing the Bamboo Tamboo. They have created their own songbook for us all to use and performed and composed their own pieces. Listen here:

Bamboo Tamboo

Have a listen to the Bamboo Tamboo after school club. They composed and performed their own piece with Matt our drumming teacher.

Bamboo Tamboo

Drumming Assembly

We had great fun playing Bamboo Tamboo with Matt this morning. We're looking forward to doing more in Percussion Club next term!

Eco School Assembly

The Eco Club hosted a class assembly where they shared the work they have been with the Eco Code. Also Mrs Williams shared our SEAL topic for this term - Going For Goals. We'll post the work we do about this topic on the blog soon.

Dads, Lads and Lasses

Dads with their children creating mosaics.