Class 1 had a visit from a guide dog today. The children learnt about how guide dogs are trained and how they work. They were told how a guide dog is looked after. He is very clever. The guide dog who visited us can memorise a journey, get on and off buses, visit football matches, go to the shops and visit restaurants. His behaviour was brilliant as he waited for his owner to talk to us.

There was great excitement in class 4 today, when the children noticed a pair of blue tits investigating our bird box. We have a camera inside the box and were able to look at the blue tits on the interactive whiteboard in the classroom. We look forward to seeing if they start nesting.

Congratulations to the children who were in this week’s Golden Book and who received certificates. The year 6 children were chosen for the Golden Book for challenging themselves to write their monologues as a poem. A child from class 3 was chosen for being a good role model and a child from class 1 was chosen for settling in well in her first week.

Today has been Science day. We have been learning all about elephants. In our house groups, we have:
• Planned and made structures that will bear the weight of a (toy) elephant.
• Considered the habitat where an elephant will live and discussed why it is important to know what conditions animals need to thrive.
• Predicted and tested different materials suitable for an elephant keeper’s coat, testing for waterproofing.
• Learnt about the different parts of an elephant and amongst other things experimented which ears lost the most heat and predicted how long an elephant’s tail is.
Today has been a lot of fun as well as opportunity to answer all sorts of questions, using our investigative skills to find the answers.

Congratulations to children in class 3 and 4 for achieving second place at Grantham Music Festival, in the class for primary school choirs consisting of twelve pupils or less.

Click on the links below to hear the songs they sang.

‘Michael Finnegan’           ‘We are one’

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

Dudley House are compiling a miniature art exhibition, inspired by famous artists. The children have had to have an incredibly steady hand as their canvas was only 7cm square. The finished works will be ready for viewing in the reception next week. How well do you know famous artists’ styles? There’s also a quiz that will be up on the board in reception. Please sign the visitor’s book when you’ve seen it, I’m sure the children would love to hear your comments.

Congratulations to the children in the Golden Book today. The class one child was chosen for her excellent storytelling. Our year 3 child was chosen for his willingness to step up and swim against year 6 in the swimming gala last week. Our year 4 child was chosen for her excellent presentation of her work. Our year 6 child was chosen for his descriptive writing inspired by our jungle computer suite.

Our jungle computer suite has been inspiring creative writing.