Pre-nursery Car wash!

This week Pre-nursery have been working together to fix cars in the garage, fill up with petrol and wash the cars in the car wash!

Year 1 have a Big Sing!

Year 1 have been involved in a 'Big Sing workshop'.

All the children joined in with singing and creating actions for songs about: washing hands, brushing their teeth and riding a bike.

Lucy the workshop leader was super impressed with Year 1's coordination and beautiful singing voices :)

Norman Banquet in Year 2

Yesterday in Year 2, we dressed up as Knights, Kings, Queens, Princesses and Maidens to finish off our topic of Castles and Knights. In the afternoon, we changed our classroom around and had a banquet! We tried lots of foods that people would have eaten in Norman times. Lots of the foods were new to us, especially the chicken broth, so we were all really brave trying lots of new foods. 

Year 2's Midsummer Night's Dream

We had a visit from a lovely lady called Beth. She told us the story of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and we did some acting to help us learn the story. What a crazy story it was! We learnt all about the friends, the fairies and the workers and how they worked together to create such a wonderful and interesting story.

Have a look at some of the photos from the day! There are photos of 2W and 2D here.

Year 1 and The Great Fire of London

On Friday we had such a fun morning travelling back in a time machine to the year 1666 in a time machine. We met Samuel Pepys, Thomas Farriner and the Duke of York and they told us the story of The Great Fire of London. We found out where it started, we thought about why it started and what happened to London afterwards. We had to join in with role play, actions, sound effects, time travel and we even learned a rap! (Mostly because we are quite cool anyway...) The workshop made us want to find out more about the disaster so we spent the rest of the day on the computers and iPads watching videos, reading Samuel's diary entries and looking at pictures of what happened.

Green Council Thanks You!

Here at Shirley Warren, we take Pupil Voice seriously.

We have our Green Council which is made up of 2 pupils from each year group from years 1-6.  These are voted for by their peers and it is an honour to serve on Green Council.

Recently, Green Council wanted to have more playground equipment and their idea was to write a letter to parents asking for dressing up clothes that are no longer needed.

We were so pleased to see so many outfits that we took time out from our Green Council discussions to model them and to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed. 

You can still send costumes in if you like!

Mrs Williams

Year One Traveled Around the UK!

In Year One we have started to learn all about aviation and the countries in the United Kingdom. We decided we wanted to write an exciting adventure story about flying around the UK on an aeroplane. So, we created our own aeroplane in our school hall and flew to the different countries where we learned lots about the characteristics of each country... including special foods! We had so much fun and really enjoyed being passengers on Year One Airways! 

Our Flight around the UK

World Water Day 2016

Today Shirley Warren Primary School helped to celebrate the 23rd United Nations World Water Day.

We started off with a very interesting assembly from Ashleigh from Southern Water who challenged us to think about where we could save water.

We then heard from Stella Typhoon (Mrs Bullas) and Aqua Lakes (Mrs Williams) who were hosting Shirley Warren News, about water around the world.  But they kept getting crackly screens! There were no reports!  So every year group found out about an aspect of water during the day. Here are some games from Year 3.

From Environmental Health correspondents to Weather Reports via songs and lots of practical activities, Shirley Warren News was finally aired at the end of the day.

Then we saw some photos of our link school, Tukela, in Zambia.  They need to raise money for flushing toilets.  Maybe you can just about see "boys" on the left and "girls" on the right on the corrugated doors in the picture. Can you see any water nearby?

As we have just had Sports Relief we are going to fund raise next term but we need your ideas for interesting ways we can raise money.  Please tell your Green Council rep any ideas you have.

Mrs Williams

The Great Shirley Warren Bake Off!

In Year 1 we have been learning all about the Great Fire of London. This week we are concentrating on the bakery on Pudding Lane and the Baker Thomas Farrinor. We have been baking bread this morning and now these children are role playing making all sorts of treats for us! Mary Berry watch this space!!!! 

No Pens Wednesday in Year 1!

On 'No Pens Wednesday' last week, we role played our 'Very Hungry Something' stories that we were starting to plan. This helped us to write our stories following the pattern of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We had a great time!