Thank you to our Librarians for running a festive lunchtime club this week. The Y5 children have had the chance to play a Christmas Quiz, complete festive crosswords and play a festive version of bananagram.

It looks like you all had fun!

A big well done to the Year 3 children who have received certificates today. The Head Teacher's certificates were awarded for great work in maths and reading. We also had two Good to Be Green raffle winners and another Bronze Award. Keep up the good work!

Year 4 have been working hard at home to complete a Christmas Around the World Project. They have identified a country and located it's continent, hemisphere, capital city, highest mountain and longest river. If that wasn't enough, they've researched the countries Christmas traditions and found out some fascinating facts. Have a read of some of their projects. 

Year 5 and Year 6 are currently taking part in The Hummingbird Project , which is a six week Positive Education intervention.  The Project is designed to give pupils the tools they need to be as happy, healthy, and productive as possible.  So far the children have taken part in workshops about happiness, mindfulness, gratitude, kindness, character strengths, and resilience. These include fun activities that help them to understand how to put these ideas into practice and, most importantly, help them to  feel good about the future. 

After our very successful October reading challenge, the Reading Ambassadors have set a new one. Please complete a book review on one of your favourite books using the template which will be sent home. Please hand in your completed book review to your teacher by Friday 20th January for the chance of winning a prize. The best book reviews will be sent to Tameside Libraries who will display them on their Twitter feed. 

I can't wait to find out which books you have all been reading!

Miss Harvey and the Reading Ambassadors

The Reading Ambassadors have hidden Wally around the school. If you find a Wally on the wall take him off and hand it to your teacher to win a certificate from Miss Harvey.

Can you spot Wally? 

Well done to our Autumn 2 handwriting winners! You have been awarded with your handwritng pencil and certificate for your amazing, neat presentation or for great effort and improvment in your handwriting.

Our winners are: Nursery- Isabella, Reception- Ella, Y1- Mason, Y2- Ella, Y3- Austin, Y4- Isla, Y5- Sam Sheppard, Y6- Lucy

All of their wonderful handwriting has been proudly displayed outside Mrs Parker's room. 

Year 6 have been practising different basketball techniques over the last couple of weeks. We have looked at using a chest pass, bounce pass and overhead pass. We have practised different dribbling skills and how to pivot when passing in a different direction. We have started to play mini matches which we really enjoyed yesterday.

Congratulations to Sam and all of year 6 this week for being our stars of the week.

The whole class were so impressive during our evolution workshop this week. I am so proud of how much you have remembered and for your enthusiasm during the workshop.

Sam asked some thoughtful questions and really immersed himself in the workshop - I could tell how much you enjoyed this Sam.

Lucy won our Handwriting Award this half term- she has been working really hard in her additional handwriting lessons to write more fluent, joined-up writing. Keep this up Lucy.

Well done to all our award winners in Year 5 this week!  Headteacher's Awards were given for being considerate and caring and being a great role model in PE!  Good to be Green awards were given for following our school values of being Ready, Respectful and safe, as well as this half term's Handwriting  certificate and Bronze awards for those who have achieved 50 star points!  Amazing!