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• BBC Stargazing Live

  Fri 20 Mar 2015 Year 5
  As part of our school’s eclipse celebrations, Year 5 went to Leicester Racecourse to take part in BBC Stargazing Live. The children were able to learn about many different aspects of science, talking to various university students and professions. All the children were excited to attend an interactive lesson with a presenter from ‘Technobabble’, many were inspired to work in space. It was an excellent opportunity for the children to see how instrumental science was in ways that caught their imagination – for example how astronauts went to the toilet in space! The Year 5 teachers were extremely proud of the maturity the children showed in asking deep questions and discussing big concepts with university students and professionals who specialised in these areas.

• International Slavery Museum Visit

  Wed 18 Mar 2015 Year 5

  As a part of their topic on Britain’s influence in Africa, Year 5 visited the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. They explored the exhibits ranging from ‘Transatlantic Slave Trade’ to the ‘Freedom Wall’, and attended an interactive learning session about ‘Everyday Life in West Africa’. The children were able to develop their understanding of our values curriculum in the context of slavery, considering discrimination and racism, in particular noting the legacy of key individuals. As it was most children’s first visit to the city, we were all very excited to see some famous sights on our way to the museum including a ferry crossing the Mersey and the Liver birds perched on the Liver Building domes. Since our visit the museum has emailed to say our children were a credit to the school. 

• Comic Relief - Red Nose Day Money Raised

  Wed 18 Mar 2015 Soo Brown

  Red Nose Day was massive success and we have raised over £1600. We are thrilled with the amount of money raised this year and even more so as we are aware that many of our own children and their families do not have much to spare.

   

  Here's some of the things we did:  Selling red noses raised a lot of money and as there were 9 different ones to collect we think there was some swopping and buying extra going on amongst the children – but that means more money!  There was a Red Nose Joke book to buy, a Teddy Bears Picnic and a Stay and Play breakfast and on the Friday  Gunge bucket challenge and the Comedy Conga.

   

  For non-school uniform we asked everyone to come in disguise and there were some fabulous costumes.  And I doubt that anyone went hungry as there was so much food and treats to buy from Caribbean food, samosas, ice cream, baked goods, home-made food provided by our parents group and children's parents too. There were lots of other events throughout the week including cake decorating, bookmark decorating and red nose painting, a sponsored skip, guess the sweets in the jar and many more.

   

  We are so delighted with the response to this most worthwhile fundraising which helps children and families in this country and others around the world.  Medway pupils, the staff and parents have contributed so much this year and we thank you all.

  

• King Richard the Third Poetry Competition

  Wed 18 Mar 2015 S Elton
  Pupils from Year 6 are delighted to have won Leicester University's Richard the Third Poetry Competition. They were tasked with writing a poem about the reinternment of King Richard and have been chosen as the best class entries. Humaiirah Ali won the prize for best poem and will receive a £10 book token. The class will be treated to a trip to the new King Richard Visitor centre, Leicester Cathedral and Bosworth Battlefield as their prize. the judges were very impressed with the extremely high quality of work in the poems , which will be read out at the Leicester University open day on Saturday March 21st. Well done Year 6!

• Authors at Medway

  Tue 10 Mar 2015

  On Monday Year 2 and 3 were lucky enough to visit the author John Dougherty. He told us the traditional story of Finn McCool, the giant what created the Giant’s causeway in Ireland. John was really funny and answered lots of our questions. We also had some time to think about our own giants and began writing our own stories.

   

  John talked to us about how to become authors. It is important that we always take time to think, because our brains need time to fizz, if we are able to do our best writing. This means sometimes it takes a little bit more time, but our teachers are going to try and make sure we have enough time for our ideas to flourish. We are looking forward to turning our giant stories into books. 

  

• WOW - Walking to School

  Sun 08 Mar 2015

  Together, the whole school are working hard to walk to school every day. We are all recording when we walk to school on special charts in our classroom and are looking forward to earning the badges, which we can wear on our school uniform.

   

  While walking to school we have been learning about fantastic new things. Year 1 have been involved in the National School's Bird watch and Year 2 have counted the steps they take, which they recorded on bar charts in their class. The whole school have been thinking about road safety and improved our stranger danger knowledge. The older children, especially the prefects, have been encouraging everyone to walk to school safely. 

   

  If you would like more information, you can visit the Living Streets website. 

  http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/

  

• Inspirational Britains

  Mon 02 Mar 2015 Year 2

  This term Year 2 have been learning about lots of inspirational Britains. We were considering famous British people who have achieved great things in their life. We particularly enjoyed learning about Helen Sharman. She was the first British woman in space, and broke down many barriers to women working in science. Since her time in space, Helen has been working at Sheffield University, helping other young women to fulfil their dreams and work in science.

   

  We also thought about inspiring people in our own lives, what they had achieved and who they had helped. We are all trying to become more like these people, and are supporting each other to achieve success.