Christmas Jumper Day Success!

Thank you to everyone at Shirley Warren for wearing festive jumpers last Friday. From your donations we were able to raise an amazing  £203.06 for the Southampton Hospital Charity! The charity were very excited to hear we had raised money for them and wanted to pass on a special thank you to all the pupils involved.

Phonics Friday

Thank you so much to all the grown ups who were able to join us for our first Phonics Friday! The children loved showing their adults all their learning about s and a. We already can’t wait for next week! 

World Book Day in Year 1

We had a great day dressed up as characters from our favourite books.

We were lucky to have Year 2 join us and read their favourite books to us :)

Thank you to parents who came in to share stories today.

World Book Day in 4C

We had a super day today and shared many stories in class with each other. Thank you to the parents who came in to share stories too! The costumes were AMAZING!! Who will you share a story with everyday?

1S - Learning how to stay safe online

We have been learning alll about what to do to keep ourselves safe when we are online this week.
We decided we should only tell our passwords to an adult we trust and nobody else and Lock-It.
If anything pops up on screen that we are not sure about we should Block-It and Show -It to an adult.
If someone is being unkind to us we will Tell-It to someone we trust so that they can help us stay safe. We learned some actions to help us remember these important rules and then used an ipad application called Morfo to make some crazy faces with messages to remind us.

Family Learning in 1S

The children in 1S had a fantastic time showing their parents what they have been learning this half term.We have been learning about materials and traditional tales. It has been a busy few weeks. We have enjoyed baking gingerbread men and writing instructions for Mrs Mann. We have created character descriptions for our Wanted Posters to help catch The Big Bad Wolf and designed new homes to keep The Three Little Pigs safe.

We hope you all enjoyed sharing our learning with us!

African Drumming

The drums have been sounding across Shirley Warren this half term! Children in Y2, 3 , 5 and 6 have been learning about Djembe drums, from West Africa. We have been playing beats and rhythms and composing our own drumming pieces. Parents came and joined us for a family learning drumming session which we all really enjoyed!

Christmas Carols on the Steps

Last night we had our Shirley Warren Christmas Tradition of "Carols on the Steps" - it was amazing and it SNOWED! 

Celebrating All Different, All Equal - Anti Bullying week at Shirley Warren

Last week saw the annual nationwide focus on Anti-Bullying which many schools take part in.

In our school we invited parents in to help update our anti-bullying charter and to see the activities we were doing to help share the message, "All Different, All Equal".

We asked all children to draw round their hands and on one side write or draw what they felt was different about them and on the other side what was the same as others.

Green Council made some examples to show the school what to do and here are their hands.

We were so pleased that so many parents could join us and we are pleased that our children understand that although everyone is different, we all have equal rights.

Nursery Sing-a-long

On Wednesday 18th October, Mrs Mead came to Nursery for a very special music session to show parents what we have been singing over the past half term.

A huge thank you to parents and carers who could make it - we hope you enjoyed it as much as us!

1S - Healthy Snack Week

This week in Year 1 we have had great fun planning and making our healthy snacks. To begin the week we had a discussion about what foods we could use to make a healthy snack. We decided that bananas, strawberries, pineapple, grapes and oranges would be ideal. We then had to plan and design our kebabs deciding what tools we would need, which fruits we would choose and what safety instructions we should follow.

Today was the fun part. We had the chance to make and taste our delicious treats. We also invited our families in to help with the tasting and to talk them through how we had designed our snacks. They all looked very tasty!!!

Every Child a Talker Parent Workshop

We were very lucky to have Jan Stevens - a Speech and Language therapist at school to tell our Early Years parents what Every Child a Talker (ECaT) is all about.  Jan went throught the stages of development and how to help your child develop their speaking and communication skills. Thanks to all the parents who attended.