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    • Numbers, Romans & Singing

      Published 13/03/25

      The Shire

      The Pixies this week had fun reading the book 'Pete the cat and the missing cupcakes' as part of their learning about numbers to 10. Pete the cat had cupcakes for a party, but grumpy toad kept eating them. They used the story to bake their own cupcakes and looked at the two numbers of cakes that would total 10. 

      They then got to eat the cupcakes, of course! 

      The shire baked focaccia bread this week and enjoyed foraging for Rosemary in the garden to use. 

       

      The Elves and Griffins have been looking at the Easter Story this week with the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on a donkey. The year twos have been learning their two times table. They enjoyed painting watercolour pictures of daffodils. 

      Whilst out and about this week, the Shire discovered and had great fun with the new equipment at the playground. 

      The Dragons

      This week in the Dragons, the children learnt about the warrior queen, Boudicca, and her resistance against the Roman invaders. They found out about the food introduced to Britain by the Romans, including surprising items on the menu, like fish gut oil, dormice and flamingo tongues!

      The Dragons made their own stop frame animated short films, using everyday objects as characters in their short films. The children worked in small groups, working collaboratively to produce the finished films.

      The Wizards

      On Tuesday, a group of children from the Wizards Class represented the school at the 113th Chipping Norton Music Festival at Chipping Norton Town Hall. They took part in a singing workshop with three other schools, performing songs about dreamcatchers. The children sang brilliantly at the rehearsal as well as in the concert, which families were able to attend. They were a real credit to the school!

      This week, the Wizards have continued to find out about the Windrush Generation including the Bristol Bus Boycott: they have begun to create powerpoints to record all aspects of both the journey and what life was like for the people when they arrived in the UK.

      In the kitchen this week, the children made plaited bread rolls – a new skill for some of them. Each child was able to take one home, and they were enjoyed by everyone!

      We'd like to thank Father Mark for coming in and taking a lovely assembly about Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and Lent.

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    • Pancakes, Books & Spring

      Published 06/03/25

      The Wizards class

      In Wizards this week, the children began to create some potential characters for our animation in July. In art, they drew these characters and either painted them or used colouring pens or pencils to help bring them to life. They have also begun storyboarding ideas for different adventures that the characters might go through during the film.

      The children who completed Bikeability last Monday and Tuesday received their badges and certificates this week; we would like to say congratulations to them for their hard work in achieving levels 1 and 2.

      The whole school celebrated World Book Day on Thursday, and we had some amazing books in a jar which the children created at home. We all thoroughly enjoyed looking at these and all the fantastic costumes too!

      Cooking continued this week with groups of children from the Wizards class making cookies to be sold at the school disco. Every child also cooked a pancake – thank you to Mrs. Blackwell and Ms. Hornibrook for organising this! 

      The Dragons class

      On Monday, the Year 4s went to Chipping Norton School to take part in a pottery workshop. They made coil pots and pinch pots and created a piece of pottery to exhibit at the Kingham Lodge Exhibition in the Spring.

      The Dragons have enjoyed making tiffin in our new kitchen - making enough to share with the rest of the school on World Book Day. The children are excited to be starting work on our filming project. They are thinking of ideas for our stop-frame animation.

      Our history topic this term is the Romans in Britain. They have been finding out about the Roman Empire and asking the question: 'why did the Romans invade Britain?'

      The Shire

      In the shire this week the Pixies have been busy learning about Shrove Tuesday. In maths they numbered the toppings they put on play pancakes, and they have made faces with toppings on pancakes.

        

      They had a go using phonics to write shopping lists for pancakes. 

      For World Book Day they had great fun designing book covers, dressing up as book characters and reading books with children from the dragons class.

      The year 2's have been investigating whether materials are waterproof or not. They had fun guessing which ones would be waterproof and surprising themselves with the results. 

      The children have been enjoying springtime activities. When out and about this week, the children went to say hello to Mrs Blackwell's spring lambs, who were very friendly and allowed the children to pet them. They have also been watching their flowers grow, ready to be planted out in their outside classroom and garden.

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    • Kitchen, Travel & Wisdom

      Published 26/02/25

       

      This term we are 'filmmakers'. We have an exciting few weeks ahead of us, completing the pre-production work for our summer film festival. On July 9th and 10th we will be screening our world premiere in the Living Room Cinema, in Chipping Norton! Please note the dates for your diary. The children have begun to plan documentary films, live action and animation for the festival.

      The Pixies started their topic by looking at travel and transport. They have been very excited about booking cruises and flights to Spain in the role-playing travel agents area. 

      The children have been categorising different means of transport into three groups: land, air and sea, making comparisons between the groups. In Maths, they have started measuring length and measuring themselves on the height chart. It was challenging building tall towers to see who could build the tallest without it toppling over!

      Pupils in the Shire have made traditional tray-bake vanilla cakes with sprinkles. 

      Drum roll please...

      A huge “Thank You” goes out to the Friends of Chadlington School for our brand new KS2 kitchen, which has only been made possible through their amazing fundraising work and your generous contributions. Cooking commenced this week with children from both the Dragons and Wizards putting the kitchen through its paces making tiffin and baking cheese straws. The children are looking forward to utilising the produce grown in the greenhouse and garden in future weeks in the kitchen. This will allow us to complete our spade to spoon project. Thank you FOCS - we are thrilled with our fantastic kitchen!

      Dragons have been especially keen to cook with food grown in our own 'tiddly squat' garden. This week they baked Tiffin (the tray-bake not the dog!). They observed how chocolate changes state when heated.

      The Tiffin is to share with others for World Book Day next week. 

      In geography, Dragons have researched places identified as UNESCO world heritage sites and found out what this means. They have also found out about the 7 ancient wonders of the world and the modern ones. For example, the Taj Mahal, which was built by a Sultan for his wife.

      In RE, the dragons are learning about the five pillars of wisdom in Islam. 

      The Wizards are really excited about making their film to be shown at the end of the year. Ms. Hornibrook shared the outline of the film yesterday (Thursday) with the children, and they have been tasked with coming up with ideas for the plot - watch this space! 

      As part of our geography work, the Wizards are going to be finding out about how people have migrated to the UK. This week we have started to find out about the people of the Windrush Generation, who came to the UK to help us rebuild and fill job shortages after WW2. The children researched the countries the people came from and also the cities in which they settled in the UK. They used both atlases and Google Earth to locate the places and then chose one place to look at in more detail, including finding out about the physical and human geography. 

      Our value this term is 'WISDOM' and the Wizards have thought about what it is to have wisdom, sharing the Bible story about Solomon. The children used water colours to paint pictures from the story. A busy start to term 4! 

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