The Big Soup Share!

Last week cooking club participated in 'The Big Soup Share'.

This event is part of RHS's campaign for school gardening.

The Big Soup Share was a chance for cooking and gardening clubs to celebrate the work they do in our garden by harvesting your crops, whizzing them up into a delicious soup and sharing it out with others.

I hope everyone enjoyed the onion soup! 

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?...

The Great Shirley Warren Switch Off

Have you seen the poster outside the school about the Shirley Warren Switch off?

Zaki from the Environment Centre kindly came in and told us about it.

It is happening tomorrow, Friday, from 4-6pm at the Action Centre (church), 117 Warren Crescent,  just near the school.
There will be prizes including torches and a multi cooker.
The event is free to attend so anyone can come along.
There will be inflatables and a slow-cooked meal which is also free.
There will be energy companies there giving advice too, and a parent session from 2-4pm.

At 5.30pm all the prizes will be given and there will be a big switch off with glow sticks.
Nearly 100 people went last year, so please come along and make this year's session even better.

At Shirley Warren Primary and Nursery School we do care about the environment and we hope you will join in too.

For more information please click here:
http://www.shirleywarren.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SWWT-BigSwitchOff-Info-pack.pdf

Clean Air at Shirley Warren

Today, Jean MacGrory from My Journey at Hampshire County Council came to talk to us about Clean Air at Shirley Warren.

We learnt that pollution is bad for the environment, for example by factories and burning fossil fuels.  Southampton is in the top 5 worst cities in the UK for pollution.
Cars are one of the worst way in which our city is polluted.
We found out that we can do things like walk or cycle to school and have plants around the house.
We need to share with our families that we need to be thinking about using our cars less if possible.
Jean told us all about Clean Air Day on 21st of June. It's a Thursday but you could go after school and there are things for children to do until 7pm.

She also left leaflets with clean air advice, including a new app to help asthma and people with breathing problems find out what their air quality is like.

If you have any thoughts or ideas about Clean Air and how we can help, you can ask Mrs Williams, the Green Council leader.

1L are in Superhero headquarters...

Year 1's new topic this half term is Superheroes and they have a special challenge...

Today they used their role play skills to show others what powers their superhero would have.
They had lots of fun and then drew and coloured their very own superhero.

Amazing home learning about The Great Fire of London.

1L have not only been enthusiastic in class learning all about the events of The Great Fire of London, but they have also been busy learning about it at home.

In the classroom there are now lots of pictures, timelines, facts, posters, 3D buildings, books and much more, on display, that 1L have produced at home.

Thank you 1L for always trying your hardest and producing amazing work and thank you parents for supporting their learning :) This really is a great topic!

Rob's Remarkable Run!

Here are a few photos of Rob running through our school on the Friday before half term, as he celebrated his 50th birthday by running 50 miles around the outskirts or Southampton. We are thrilled to be able to share the results of the fundraising which raised £390.13, with the winning class, 5M raising £52.71 We would like to thank all families who donated and are pleased to say that we can now commission work on our playground markings, which will be completed as soon as possible.

Year 1 are being good friends on the internet.

On Safer Internet day Year 1 talked about using the internet safely whilst playing games or using You Tube, and if children saw anything scary, upsetting or unkind to...

Lock it, Block it, Show it, Tell it. 

Ask your child to show you the actions to help them remember this.

The day's activities and discussions helped them analyse online behaviour.

So that they could identify the best ways that they could keep themselves safe when they are online.

Also they created a pledge of what they will do to be a good friend, on a puzzle piece.

Some suggestions from the children were to...

'Not laugh at others falling down'

'Be kind to our friends'

'Never say unkind words about people's work'

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 :)

Bike It Jenny visits Green Council

At the end of last term, Green Council had a treat. Jenny Babey from BikeIt came to see us and brought festive travel activities.
She talked about Active Travel - how to be active on the way to school.
She held a competition to name the bear.

Jenny wanted to know what activities the children would like at school. We said anything that helps us to travel safely and live a healthy lifestyle. Lots of children asked brilliant questions about cycling and road safety.

Zoe won a bell and all children had goodies to take home to remind them to travel safely.

Thank you Jenny and we look forward to working with you in the New Year.

The Great British Spring Clean at Shirley Warren

On Monday afternoon, members of the Green Council volunteered to take part in The Great British Spring Clean and we were joined by Charlotte and Rebecca from Solent University Journalism course who made this news bite about our event.



http://www.solentjournalism.co.uk/great-britain-gets-a-spring-clean/

Thank you to all of the pupils who took part.

Green Council Visit to Basics Bank

Today, three members of Green Council were very lucky to be invited to the Basics Bank Headquarters in Millbrook.  This is where Southampton City Mission collect and sort the donated food before it goes to the local Foodbanks where people can then take it home.

Last week we celebrated Harvest in school so our donations were all there ready to be sorted!

Matt showed us how to sort them into categories like peas, soups and so on according to the Best Before date so that those with the shortest shelf life get used first.

 Above is a picture of the board showing the items they need more of at Basics Bank, and below is the card they give to everyone who receives food.

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Y4K Tudor Visit

Year 4 really enjoyed their visit to Tudor House. We looked at artifacts, dressed up, toured the museum and ate our lunch within Southampton's Old Town Walls. Well done to all of the children for their enthusiasm and good behaviour!

Sports Day 2015 with Year 5!

Year 5 had an amazing time at sports day this year. They were able to compete in races such as, obstacle, 50m, space hopper as well as competing in throwing activities too. Everyone tried their hardest, and lots of fun was had. Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to watch, and to all the staff who organised the event!

Sports day with year 6!

Unbelievably, this was Y6L's last sports day (hasn't time flown by)! They made us proud with their impeccable sportsmanship: everyone supported each other and acknowledged all achievements! Mrs Cook and Myself couldn't be more proud- or tired! Well done to the parents from our class who joined in with the races!

Woodmill Adventures!

More Woodmill fun!

Year 6 at Woodmill

The Year 6 children are at Woodmill! Accompanied by Miss Lott, Miss Jones, Mrs Cook, Ged (a school governor) and Mr Fairbank, the Year 6 started their camping adventure. This involved a meal all together, playing ball games and a dusk walk (where we spotted a deer). We sat around a camp fire and toasted marshmallows and then got ourselves sorted for bed. The night was cold and some sleep was had. Here are some photos of what has happened so far.

The New Eco Bunny Mascot

We had a competition to create a new Eco mascot.  Anyone in school could enter a design for the mascot.  Then we had a Green Council meeting and decided which one should be made.  We saw a lot of designs and after lots of discussion and a thorough look we decided to go for the Eco friendly bunny.

After the winning mascot was designed, the Green Council Team went to IKEA to find some of their recycled materials to make the Eco Bunny.  IKEA usually give their leftover material to the scrap store but they kindly offered us some for our mascot!  We got some cotton and some for a green cape. 

Our lovely Mrs Williams kindly made the real Eco mascot. She made 2! Now they are in school so that they can be given to which class is the most Eco that week by turning off the taps, making sure the lights are off, that the whiteboard is off if not being used and that the computer is on the home screen or off.

Teachers, remember that Eco check is now on a Tuesday lunchtime and that if you're not being Eco friendly you have been warned by the Green Council!!

By a Green Council member, Year 6