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Posted on: 11/11/2022A message from Emma Johns
The children and staff of Winsham School spent a busy first term engaging with their learning and working hard. There has been a busy and productive feel to the school everyday, with many exciting learning opportunities taking place across the curriculum. This term sees us preparing for our many Christmas events!
We started the new term with an author focussed day on which the children enjoyed reading the books of and finding out about the author, Michael Morpurgo. We had our extreme reading competition – photos are proudly displayed in the hall – and really enjoyed welcoming so many parents into the school at the end of the day.
KS2 had the recent excitement of an orienteering event with the other schools in the hub – I am sure Miss Dobinson and Mrs. King will elaborate on this! I also have been fortunate enough to have popped in on a fair few exciting Science experiments as well as their cross curricular lessons on volcanoes. Exciting stuff.
FS/KS1 have enjoyed their text, ‘Tidy’, which has helped them to think about looking after our community as well as the wider world. The KS1 children produced some amazing writing, re-telling the story. Their work looking at local folk music was extended to include African music and they very much enjoyed finding out about the musician, Abel Selaocoe. Our Geography work about the village and maps is complete and we are excited to be now thinking about the village in terms of History.
As I mentioned in our last newsletter, our Big Question involved discussing how sharing food binds together a community. The children very much enjoyed their free ice cream from Noodles – there were some extremely ice-cream covered faces, with many children wearing possibly more than they were eating! All of the children contributed to pictures, poems, cards – and cakes – of thanks to the ice cream van man. The FS/KS1 class also chose to make cakes and cards for our friends who work so hard in our village shop and we delivered these once free of sticky ice cream!
Our Harvest celebration in church, where sharing food and thinking about community was again uppermost in our minds, may not have gone without hitches but it was lovely to gather together in the church and to see families and members of the community join us in giving thanks. The donations of food you all kindly gave have been taken to the Lord’s Larder, who have expressed their gratitude.
Forthcoming dates for your calendar – on November 19 th the school will be part of the Craft Fair being held to raise money for First Responders, so please do come along, we also have a Family Service in Church for Stir Up Sunday, on Sunday 20th which I have been told the children will all be very welcome to attend.
I look forward to a busy but exciting and fun filled term!
Emma Johns
Head of School
Posted on: 11/11/2022A messsage from Emma Johns Head of School
The children and staff of Winsham School spent a busy first term engaging with their learning and working hard. There has been a busy and productive feel to the school everyday, with many exciting learning opportunities taking place across the curriculum. This term sees us preparing for our many Christmas events!
We started the new term with an author focussed day on which the children enjoyed reading the books of and finding out about the author, Michael Morpurgo. We had our extreme reading competition – photos are proudly displayed in the hall – and really enjoyed welcoming so many parents into the school at the end of the day.
KS2 had the recent excitement of an orienteering event with the other schools in the hub – I am sure Miss Dobinson and Mrs. King will elaborate on this! I also have been fortunate enough to have popped in on a fair few exciting Science experiments as well as their cross curricular lessons on volcanoes. Exciting stuff.
FS/KS1 have enjoyed their text, ‘Tidy’, which has helped them to think about looking after our community as well as the wider world. The KS1 children produced some amazing writing, re-telling the story. Their work looking at local folk music was extended to include African music and they very much enjoyed finding out about the musician, Abel Selaocoe. Our Geography work about the village and maps is complete and we are excited to be now thinking about the village in terms of History.
As I mentioned in our last newsletter, our Big Question involved discussing how sharing food binds together a community. The children very much enjoyed their free ice cream from Noodles – there were some extremely ice-cream covered faces, with many children wearing possibly more than they were eating! All of the children contributed to pictures, poems, cards – and cakes – of thanks to the ice cream van man. The FS/KS1 class also chose to make cakes and cards for our friends who work so hard in our village shop and we delivered these once free of sticky ice cream!
Our Harvest celebration in church, where sharing food and thinking about community was again uppermost in our minds, may not have gone without hitches but it was lovely to gather together in the church and to see families and members of the community join us in giving thanks. The donations of food you all kindly gave have been taken to the Lord’s Larder, who have expressed their gratitude.
Forthcoming dates for your calendar – on November 19 th the school will be part of the Craft Fair being held to raise money for First Responders, so please do come along, we also have a Family Service in Church for Stir Up Sunday, on Sunday 20th which I have been told the children will all be very welcome to attend.
I look forward to a busy but exciting and fun filled term!
Emma Johns
Head of School
