Victorian School Day

What a fantastic day we had at Victorian school.  Take a look at our class photo and the photos below to see what we got up to.

Victorian Day part 1 on PhotoPeach



Victorian day part 2 on PhotoPeach

Victorian day part 3 on PhotoPeach

Thank you to everyone for helping the children dress up you all looked fabulous.  I was very proud of you all as you showed such super behaviours and took part in everything with huge enthusiasm.

Growing in the winter and starting our minibeast hotel

Check out the photos from last week's Gardening club.  Some fantastic growers had brought their cress seeds and radishes  back into school to show us how they were growing.  Outside, we made a start on building the minibeast hotel but we need your help to complete it.  We urgently need bricks, slates, old pipes, logs and chunky sticks to make a comfortable habitat for our minibeast.

Minibeast hotel on PhotoPeach

Planting in our new story garden

This week we have been lucky enough to be one of the first groups of children in our new story garden.  As the gardening club we will be responsible for planting and maintaining the beds that sit behind the small benches that are around the garden.  We have planted two of the beds with bulbs for next spring and we have planted a lavender plant in one bed and a rosemary in the other.  We enjoyed touching these plants and smelling their gorgeous scent.

Planting in the story garden on PhotoPeach

Harvest time in Gardening club

Over the summer the garden has become a bit of a jungle but the vegetables have been quietly growing.  This week it was time to harvest what had grown so that we can get the beds ready for our winter planting.  We sold the produce to the teaching staff and we raised over £8.50 which will go towards buying some winter onion sets that we can plant in the weeks to come.

Well done not only to the harvesters but to the children from last year's gardening club who planted and looked after the summer crops.

p.s. thank you to one of kind gardeners who brought in some basil and parsley that he had helped to grow at home so that we could taste it.

Harvest time on PhotoPeach

Cinderella & Rockerfella

Welcome Panto Club members!

There is a great video of our play on the link below, which shows all of scenes and songs we will be doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUfl-S6_V4s

Enjoy!
Mr. Lee, Mrs Critchley and Miss Stevens

Gardening club

A few pictures showing what we get up to in the school gardens.

Gardening club on PhotoPeach

Gardening Club Harlow Carr Trip

Last week the gardeners were lucky enough to go on a trip to the RHS gardens Harlow Carr in Harrogate.  We took part in a "sculpitat" workshop led by one of the fantastic teachers at Harlow Carr.  Have a look at what we got up to in the pictures below.



Harlow Carr Gardens on PhotoPeach



Harlow Carr part 2 on PhotoPeach

Artists Unite - Ink Blotting Pictures

Miss Coomber has an amazing imagination and fantastic ideas when it comes to art. Here are the children in artists unite enjoying making ink blotting pictures. You draw the picture using your handwriting pens and then with a tiny bit of water and a thin brush, blot the ink to create a smudged effect. Fantastic!!!

Digital Studies find out about e-safety

What have you learnt today?

Share some top tips about keeping safe.

Digital Studies AKA Purple Mash and Sumdog fun

Blowing Art in Artists Unite!!

Artists unite children had great fun making blowing effect pictures!!!

Have a look at the super effects we made!!!

Winter theme afternoon

Rather than our usual Children's University courses, today children spent time with different teachers.

Years 1, 2 and 3 spent time with Mrs Longhawn, Miss Morris and Mrs Quinn.

Years 4, 5 and 6 spent time with Mrs Warner, Mr Lee and Mr Riley.

Here are some photos from Mrs Warner's Purple Mash sessions.

Animal club - Reindeer

This week because we had all been getting in the Christmas spirit decorating our
classrooms we decided to have a look at the animals that Santa relies on the most.......reindeer.  We all went outside and worked in teams to answer questions and find out more about reindeers.

Did you know that girl reindeer grow antlers as well as the boy reindeer and that reindeer are good swimmers because they use their scooped hooves to move the water?



Animal Club Reindeer on PhotoPeach

Guinea pigs visit to animal club

A bog thank you to Mrs B and R for bringing in their pet guinea pigs.  They proved very popular and were fantastically behaved letting the children up close to give them lots of strokes.

Answering all our clubbers questions.

The animal clubbers went on to draw some super pictures of the guinea pigs.  The prize for finding out why guinea pigs are called guinea pigs is still up for grabs as no one has found out a plausible answer....see Mrs L if you have any answers.

Reptile spotted in animal club

We had an amazing visitor this week in animal club.....a bearded dragon lizard.  Have a look at the pictures to see what a magnificent creature he was.

Here he's eyeing up his favourite snack of live locusts.

He really could move very fast which did startle a few animal clubbers
Mrs Longhawn included !!!

We learnt so much about this interesting creature like he turns black when he's grumpy and he can't eat anything bigger than his head.  Thank you so much to the parent and grandparent that brought him in for us.

Digital Studies 16th November

Here the children are using 2DIY and blogging.

Using "Drag"

Visiting our school website

Using "Journey"

Another "Journey"

Blogging

More "Drag" activities

Using "Platform"

Another "Platform" game

"Santa Run" on Year 4's game page

Write back and tell me what your favourite game is.

Cookery Club (16/11/12)

On Friday we are making Chocolate Chip Biscuits, here is the recipe;

Chocolate Chip Biscuits

Makes approximately 20

Ingredients;

225g (8oz) self raising flour

100g (4oz) caster sugar

100g (4oz) margarine

3 table spoons milk

Few drops vanilla essence

75g Chocolate chips

Method;

1)      Heat oven to 190c, 373f, gas mark 5.

2)    Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.

3)    Mix flour and sugar in a bowl and rub in the margarine.

4)   Add the chocolate chips, milk and essence and mix well.

5)    Bring together with your hands and knead lightly on a floured surface.

6)   Roll out to 1/2 cm thick and cut using cutters.

7)    Place on the lined baking tray and bake for 8-10 minutes.

8)    Remove from the baking tray and cool.

Cookery Club (9/10/12)

This week we made Chocolate Biscuits, they made the whole school smell delish!!!
Here is the recipe;

Chocolate Biscuits

Makes approximately 20

Ingredients;

225g (8oz) self raising flour

100g (4oz) caster sugar

3 table spoons cocoa powder, sieved

100g (4oz) margarine

3 table spoons milk

Few drops vanilla essence

Method;

1)      Heat oven to 190c, 373f, gas mark 5.

2)    Line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.

3)    Mix flour, sugar and cocoa in a bowl and rub in the margarine.

4)   Add the milk and essence and mix well.

5)    Bring together with your hands and knead lightly on a floured surface.

6)   Roll out to 1/2 cm thick and cut into rounds.

7)    Place on the lined baking tray and bake for 8-10 minutes.

8)    Remove from the baking tray and cool.

Animal Club 19 October

This week we were visited by Thelma who brought her two dogs in, Rhoda and Alma.  Thelma works for Guide Dogs for the blind, fundraising and educating people about the fantastic work that dogs can do for blind and partially aighted people.

Thelma telling us about the work of Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Alma the retired guide dog having a quick nap !

We experienced what it would be like to be blind or partially sighted.

Taking Rhoda for a walk.......or is it the other way round???
Rhoda started her training as a guide dog nut it didn't work out
as she is far too easily distracted by food.  I know the feeling !!!

Looking like professionals.

These are called "sim specs".  They simluate various eye conditions that
can affect your sight like cataracts.



Having great fun.

A huge thank you to Thelma and the dogs for their time and Friends of Fieldhead for donating the weeks toast money as a donation to Guide Dogs for the Blind.  If you want to find out more about this charity you can visit their website

http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/

Cookery (19/10/12)

This week we are making Scones, here is the recipe;

Scones (makes about 8)

 8oz (225g) Self Raising flour

1 pinch of salt
1oz (25g) caster sugar
2oz (50g) margarine – block
2oz (50g) raisins
1 medium egg, beaten with milk to make ¼ pint (125ml)

1. Preheat the oven to 220 c / gas mark 7.
2. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. Mix the salt and flour into a mixing bowl and cut the margarine into cubes.
4. Using your fingertips lightly rub the margarine into the flour until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Don’t over rub.
5. Stir in the sugar and raisins.
6. With a round-blade knife, mix the egg and milk mix into the flour, leaving a little for brushing the tops. You should have a soft dough, moist but not too sticky.
7. Turn the dough onto a floured board or worktop and knead it very lightly. Do this by folding the dough from the outside to the centre, turning the dough until it is smooth and firm with no cracks.
8. Dust a rolling pin with a little flour and, on a floured surface, roll the dough firmly and evenly until it is about 1cm thick. Do not roll the dough thinner than this.
9. Take a pastry cutter (5cm) across, dip it in flour, and cut out scone shapes – you should get approx 8.
10. Bake the scones in the top of the over for about 10 minutes.
11. The scone should be soft inside, crisp and golden outside. Cool on a wire rack.

• A scone dough should be soft and spongy. Handle very lightly for best results.