Today some of the children from class 2, attended a Fly the Flag for the Commonwealth Ceremony, where they met the Mayor of Grantham and other dignitaries at the Civic Centre.

Congratulations to the children in this week’s golden book and to those who were presented certificates in this morning’s assembly.

Today children in class 3 and 4 visited Grantham Museum to gather information about how displays are put together, how to write engaging museum labels and explored a variety of artefacts. They were then eager to get back to school to start creating their own display for the museum.

Why don’t you visit Grantham Museum from the 22nd March until the end of April to see their display.

We came to school today, dressed as our favourite book characters, for World Book Day and took part in a variety of activities related to books. Don’t we look fantastic! We had lots of fun.

Class 3 were up early today, to catch the train to York. During the morning they visited The Dig and learnt how archaeologists interpret artefacts such as bones, pottery and human waste. They had a chance to ‘dig’ for themselves, unearthing clues for different time periods. A bespoke workshop before lunch allowed the pupils to handle artefacts. They discovered medicines, clothing and weapons the Vikings used and owned. A short walk past the Shambles, led the class to Jorvik. Here they immersed themselves in the sights, sounds and smells of York 1,000 years ago.

Dudley House School was thrilled to learn that their reading display had been awarded a bronze prize in this year’s World Book Day Awards. For such a small school this was an amazing achievement. The school is delighted that they will be able to choose £500 of Bonnier Zaffre books for the school library to inspire children’s love of reading even further.

Creating the display was an exciting adventure involving everyone in the school with pupils talking more than ever about reading and books. What started out as a blue squiggle on a page ended up with an exciting project with everyone working hard to add something to make it inspirational.

The judges thought our display was fantastic and could tell all the hard work that had gone into it. Over 70,000 children were involved in the competition! Congratulations to all involved.

See the winning entries at  World Book Day Awards

For more information about how our display evolved see our World Book Day Competition Entry

and look at our school gallery for more pictures.

Key Stage 2 went on a visit to St Wulfram’s Church, this afternoon. The children were shown around the church by Father James, who talked to them about the history of the church. The children found it very interesting and asked lots of questions.