This week all children took part in 2 days of collaborative art led by the artist Kate Johnston, to create two beautiful school banners. These banners are inspired by our new school vision.

Along with our 3 words courage, ambition & kindness.

The children were actively involved in drawing, printmaking and sewing. All the words, phrases and drawings were created by the children linked to Clun River and their understanding and interpretation of our vision and 3 words.

Guided by  Kate’s artistic skills the children have worked to brilliantly together to create these powerful and striking pieces ready to be sewn together to create 2 distinctive banners.  The finished banners will be displayed in the hall and entrance way in the new year.

The sound of bells could be heard in Clun on Wednesday, to our surprise we had a special visitor waiting in our reception… it was Father Christmas!

The children were so excited to see Santa and tell him about their Christmas preparations – just look at the joy on their faces!

Santa told us all the tasty treats he and the reindeer like to eat on their special journey around all the children’s houses on Christmas Eve.

This week, Class One performed their nativity “One night in Bethlehem”. This year, the children took real ownership of the performance. The Year One children wrote the recount for the narrators, all of the children chose which character they would like to be, they decided on the props and also the dialogue. It was amazing, well done everyone.

Class One have been busy making Christmas gifts for the Mayfair Community Centre project. As a special present, these robins will be delivered to the elderly and vulnerable with their meal pack over Christmas. A big thank you to Kirsty Stevens for providing the materials.

On Monday in Forest School, the children made homes for sleepy hedgehogs. Using sticks, mallets and string they created a frame and then collected natural materials to make the home cosy for a hibernating hedgehog.

This week we also had lots of fun using balance bikes. The children really enjoyed playing the different games and the activities were great for developing physical skills. It was particularly lovely to see the children gaining confidence throughout the sessions. Well done everyone.

This week Class One had a story problem to solve. Percy the park keeper wrote to tell us that the giant oak tree had blown down in a storm and all of his animal friends were very sad because they had lost their home. The children were challenged to design and make new homes for the different animals using a range of materials and resources. We thought the animals would be really pleased with their new homes. What do you think?

We began our Henri Rousseau inspired paintings. We mixed lots of shades of green and painted a background for our wild tropical jungle. During the week we have returned to our work and added flowers and a beautiful stripy tiger. We will return again to add collage materials to hide our tigers, so watch this space!

In maths we have been singing lots of tiger songs and even made one up of our own adding one more each time using our small world tigers. We have also loved making repeating patterns with orange and black rods.

Our stories have also had a tiger theme too!

This week, Class One created a sound story to retell “Walking Through The Jungle”. Using body percussion, vocal sounds and rhythm sticks, they composed music to represent the different animals and then notated their composition using pictures and symbols.

In Discovery Maths, the children were shape detectives. After hunting for shapes in the environment, the children looked at famous artwork to spot, name and describe shapes. They were then challenged to create their own shapes using different resources.