Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Mercury had a special visit from a V.I.P!

  Thu 17 Feb 2022 Miss Bainbridge

  Before the half term, Mrs Erskine and baby Erin came to visit Washingwell.  Year 6 were delighted and shocked to see both mammy and baby in school! Mercury have missed Mrs Erskine a lot and thoroughly enjoyed having cuddles. They can't wait to see Mrs Erskine and Erin again soon :) 

  

• Earth’s trip to the Centre for Life

  Tue 15 Feb 2022 Miss Tweedy

  Earth thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Centre for Life. We explored how to protect our environment, which included an amazing experience in the planetarium. Space, where we turned ourselves into astronauts. An ‘animals got talent’ science show and had a workshop focussing on nutrition and how to look after our bodies. In the afternoon, Earth got their very own lab coats and got to work to find out which foods provided the most nutrition by doing a fun experiment.

  

• Mighty Mountains

  Tue 15 Feb 2022 Mrs Mustard

  In Geography, Neptune have been finding out about different mountain ranges in Europe. We have been using atlases to locate them on a map. Some of us then carried out further research to find out additional facts. 

  

• Feeling loved ❤️

  Mon 14 Feb 2022 Miss Cant

  As today is Valentine’s Day and the beginning of Random Acts of Kindness week, Jupiter have been writing messages to someone we love. We have written to our mums, dads, cousins, sisters and more! We are also looking out for acts of kindness this week in the classroom so we can celebrate making each other and ourselves feel happy. 

  

• Creature Inventions!

  Thu 10 Feb 2022 Miss Cant

  This week as part of our Literacy lessons we have been looking at diagrams and labels. Our focus has been on Animals so using all the facts we have learnt about animals so far across our curriculum including where they live we invented our own creatures. We drew our creatures and chose features suitable for where they live and what they need to do. 

  

• Children’s mental health week 2022

  Thu 10 Feb 2022 Miss Bainbridge

  To celebrate Children’s mental health week, Mercury created some colourful and unique posters using paints and good old cardboard (reuse and recycling too). The posters provided positive and uplifting messages, highlighting the importance of looking after your mental health. 

  

• National Storytelling Week

  Fri 04 Feb 2022 Mrs Evered

  Venus have really enjoyed sharing their favourite books this week and have made excellent book recommendations to their friends.

  

• Story Telling in Saturn

  Fri 04 Feb 2022 Mrs McCue

  This week, we all talked about our favourite books. The books we discussed were from many different genres. We listened to mystery, fantasy, sci-fi and adventure stories. We enjoyed reading the best parts of the books out loud. 

  We are now writing book reviews for the reading corner of our classroom. 

  

• Capacity

  Fri 04 Feb 2022 Mr Barnes

  This week Reception have learnt all about capacity. We have explored what capacity means by filling and emptying a range of different containers to find out how much of something a container can hold. We used the correct vocabulary to describe and compare the water levels in different containers. 

  

• Writing and sharing our own myths

  Thu 03 Feb 2022 Miss Tweedy

  This week in Earth, we have been writing our own Myths. We have created our own hero’s, mythical creatures and written an amazing journey for our Hero to embark on! We have thoroughly enjoyed writing them and today for National Story Telling week decided to share them with each other!