Tatton Park
September—October 2015
Year 1 had a brilliant time visiting Tatton Mansion at Tatton
Park! We dressed up as Victorian children and were treated as
servants for the day. We scrubbed the floors, made beds and
made delicious scones! We all had a Victorian name and used
these to help us stay in character! Linked to our topic of Homes,
we had the opportunity to explore the Mansion which had been
home to 40 indoor servants, 24 gardeners and over 100 farming
and estate workers during the nineteenth century! We won’t
forget our experience, especially eating our
lunch in the cellars!
Water & Year 6!
Did you know that Year 6 loved water? I didn’t!
We had 6 huge boxes of books to donate to
Books 2 Africa so I asked Year 6 for ideas on
how we could raise the money to send these
books to Africa. Their number 1 choice was to
have the rest of the school throw WET sponges
at them! To their delight, Mr McDowell agreed.
So on a warm Friday afternoon a few weeks ago,
the whole school threw wet sponges at them.
THEY LOVED IT! We raised over £150. Well
done Year 6.
Poetry Recital at St Ann’s Hospice
Some of Year 4 were kindly invited to St Ann’s Hospice to read poetry
to day patients. We decided on the Environment as our theme as Green
Day is coming up soon in the school calendar. Children auditioned in
class for the opportunity to go and perform for real! We had a fantastic
time and even got juice and biscuits as a reward for our hard work!
Yusaf said, “We are famous now! There were posters advertising us
visiting up on the walls”!
Coffee Morning
We invited our new reception
Lyme Park
On September 22nd, Year 6
spent a fantastic day working on our
geography and science skills in
Lyme Park. We looked at land use,
river systems, woodland and
moorland habitats. We practised
using compasses, reading maps and
working out grid references. Some of
us saw deer and Highland Cattle for
the first time and some of us walked
up a hill and climbed over a stile
for the first time. We all enjoyed
hugging trees!!
parents to a lovely MacMillan
coffee morning. Cakes and biscuits
were eaten and much chatting and
socialising happened raising funds for
this extremely worthwhile charity.
Thank you to all who attended and
baked!
Blue Planet Aquarium
Did you know an octopus has three
Chickens
hearts? No, neither did Year 2, until they
African Drumming
The chickens have been a massive visited the Blue Planet Aquarium. They
On Thursday 15th October we welcomed Cheikh
enjoyed touching a real starfish, watching
success. Storm
into school. All children had the opportunity to
divers feed stingrays and walking through
and Cloud have
use the drums as well as sing and dance. The
a glass tunnel which enabled them to get
been enjoyed by
children were magnificent, not only with their
up close with the sharks! It was a
all the children
drumming skills, but their behaviour was
and
produced
many
memorable day and the
exemplary. The day finished with a whole school
eggs that have been raffled off. children’s behaviour was
assembly and the children were left
a credit to the school.
buzzing at the teachers dancing to the They will be greatly missed as
they move on to a new home!
Well done Year 2.
rhythm of the drums!
Theatre Trip
Project Paddington Day
On Friday 16th October, Year 3 were We had a very exciting Project
lucky enough to experience a ballet at The Palace Paddington day in school! Children were able
to bring in their favourite teddies from home
Theatre in Manchester. The children were
fascinated to see how the traditional tale, of The and write a message to those refugee
children who are not as fortunate as us. It
Elves and the Shoemaker, was brought to life
was fabulous to see such an array of cuddly
through music and dance… without words! It was a
toys! However, it also helped
lovely afternoon for everyone involved and a great
raise the children’s awareness
opportunity for the children to experience yet
of these issues in an age
another aspect of the performing arts.
appropriate way.
Manchester Museum
Year 4 had an amazing time
exploring Manchester Museum!
Our guide Jack told us some
amazing and gruesome facts
about Azru’s mummy and we
even got to build our own
pyramid. We did it so fast
thanks to our team leader Mr
Waddington, that we have
Year 5
been told that we will be
Stone age to Iron age
It has been an exciting start to the
Year 3 had a fantastic Stone Age to Iron Age experience when Clud came to visit added to the leader board on
school year! We have had lots of
for a day. The children learned all about hunting for food and working in teams to their website!
fun and have been learning many
capture mammoths and deer. They also enjoyed exploring cave art and trying out
new facts about the Anglo-Saxons.
Disco Fever
their own ideas. Later on they became history detectives and worked hard to find
We can’t wait to find out about the
Last Friday the children
all of the answers in a very tricky quiz. In the afternoon they learned how to
Vikings! We also had
construct their own stone henges and finally, everyone participated in a highly
enjoyed their school discos.
lots of fun when we
competitive ‘chariot’ race! A wonderfully enjoyable day was had by all.
The total raised from this
welcomed Crosslee to
PTFA event was £443.00.
our school for the school linking project.
Reminder…Dinner money for next half term is £71.40 6 weeks and 4 days