The Nursery and Reception children, in Class 1, are learning all about people who help us. We are having fun learning about doctors and nurses in our class hospital. We have been writing prescriptions and patient details as well as planning how to treat different illnesses!

Congratulations to the children who were in the Golden Book, this week.

This afternoon, 4 children from Key Stage 2, had the opportunity to take part in a New Age Kurling tournament. This was a new sport that they had not played before. They played 9 games against other schools from the Grantham area, and won 5 of them.

This week, Class 2 have been working on instruction texts. They have been making models and writing up the instructions for someone else to try to make it.

What would be a good children’s book to read with a winter theme? Not sure? Then why not pop into Grantham Library to see what books the children at Dudley House would recommend?

Children in the school have reviewed a selection of winter themed books and created book covers to showcase the books they have read. These are on display in the children’s section of Grantham library until the end of January.

As a school, we are very proud of all the children in class 3 and 4 who worked hard to create a dance for the Royal Opera House competition. We all thoroughly enjoyed watching their final performance and were impressed with what they had achieved.

The Royal Opera House sent them the following messages – ‘Well done on creating a wonderful National Nutcracker Dance! We particularly enjoyed the great choice of music! Your dance was really well rehearsed and thoughtfully staged. It was lovely to know that you have had such a good time on the project. Well done.’

‘Your robotic movements are very well performed and effective for your theme well done!
You have used motif development and canon very effectively. There are some accomplished dance skills on show in your dance. You have a really nice unison section where you use the music very well and show good timing. You should be proud of all your dancers and your achievement.’

 The children will be visiting the Reel cinema to see ‘The Nutcracker’ as a special treat, provided by the Royal Opera House, for all the hard work they put in.

Well done to all the children who played in our music assembly. Here are a few of the performers.

On Tuesday evening, science club made recycled paper.
They chopped some scraps of different types of paper up into small pieces, before adding a couple of handfuls and some water into the blender. Once the paper pulp was ready, it was poured into a washing up bowl along with some more water. A mould and deckle was used to scoop some pulp from the bowl. This was drained thoroughly. The excess water was soaked up with a sponge before the paper was left to dry. Most of the children thoroughly enjoyed this hands on experience, but a couple preferred to watch.