Look at the fun we have had creating Stone Age scenarios! Thank you to Bart’s mam for the help with making some stunning resources like Shaun the mammoth, the stone axe and the bone necklace!
And take a look at the stone henges some of Year 3 have made at home after using the recipe from the Y3 homework menu!
On Wednesday, 18th October the candidates for Year 3’s school council representatives put forward their proposals. There was a ballot and on Friday 20th the elected were announced… Congratulations Luke A and Ashleigh S! … Continue Reading
We have been looking closely at St. Paul’s letter to the Colossians 3:12-17. St. Paul tells us that we are chosen by God to be a holy people and he describes ways Christians live as people chosen by God. We highlighted where St. Paul used the teachings of Jesus to show us how to live…… Continue Reading
The ‘Stay and Play’ sessions we provide here at St Columba’s are extremely popular and well supported. We aim to foster opportunities to enable the children, parents, carers and staff to be more sensitive to each others needs. We provide ideas, activities and opportunities that can be replicated in the home environment. The children…… Continue Reading
It has been a very busy week in Nursery. We have had ‘Stay and Play’, ‘Italian Day’ and celebrated ‘Diwali.’ We value the role that festivals and celebrations play in supporting children’s learning and development in every area of learning. Miss O’Connor encourages families to help understand one another’s cultures and beliefs in a…… Continue Reading
It is not just children who love Autumn. Forest School Leaders relish in fallen leaves too! We are very lucky at St Columba’s to have such beautiful green surroundings. It’s fair to say the ground is positively gleaming and everything has become a bit more atmospheric. We made collections of leaves, used them to…… Continue Reading
Year 5 have had a busy week! In Maths, we’ve been dealing with decimals. We began by making decimal numbers with base 10 and adding them together, then we moved onto word problems and reasoning. In English, we’ve been writing our own short story based on our class novel ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ – we have…… Continue Reading
Miss O’Connor told me that she did lots of shape work with the children in the Nursery last year and I can tell that she did as the children have been super at recognising and talking about shapes in class this week. We set a challenge to explore the outdoor area around our school and…… Continue Reading
Thank you to all the mums, dads, grannies and grandads that came along to our Buddy assembly this week. The Reception children already love their Buddies in Year Six. The older children have been brilliant at helping the Reception children settle into the longer days at school and they have especially been super at helping…… Continue Reading
I’m back from a hectic few days teaching science in the beautiful Italian town of Tarquinia as part of our on-going Erasmus project, straight into the preparations for one of the best weeks in Y6 – the week of the Buddy assembly. The Y6 pupils have completed a superb hall display of pen portraits of…… Continue Reading
