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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: 11/10/2022Winsham Primary School Welcome's Noodles Ice Cream Van
Winsham Primary School’s inside scoop!
The children of Winsham Primary School (part of The Redstart Learning Partnership) were fortunate in having been chosen to receive free ice cream from Noodles ice cream van. Noodles ice cream was kind enough to attend the primary school to serve up delicious frozen sweet treats for all the children.
At Winsham Primary, we like all of our experiences to have a learning focus and this visit linked well with the 'big question' of the week which was 'How does sharing food bind a community together?'. There was lots of discussion in classes about those who are less fortunate than others, about shared celebratory meals and, of course, about the Harvest festival.
The children in KS1, who have also been thinking about village life, wrote letters to the villagers who run the community shop, thanking them for bringing the shop to the community and for providing local produce to share. The children also made them chocolate cakes! The kind ice cream man was given a poem from KS2, pictures from pre-school and, of course, chocolate cakes to share. As we all stood in the autumn sunshine enjoying our ice creams. It was ‘sweet, cold and creamy with a chance of sprinkles!’
As we continue into the school year, we are hoping to build some raised beds in our forest school area in which to grow fruit and vegetables to share with our community. Any help regarding materials and time will be gratefully received - please contact the school office if you are able to do so.
Emma Johns, Head of School said “It was fantastic to be chosen by Noodles. We would like to thank them for their kind generosity and for offering such a special experience to the children. It was a great way to link this activity with the children’s learning and the community including the local shop. We are really looking forward to starting to build the raised beds and to enjoy the fruits of the children’s labour!”
Posted on: 9/12/2022
