Illustrator Visit

The children had an exciting visitor and got to enjoy a day of illustration, organised by FOBS. We were very fortunate, as we had the excellent drawing skills of a well known illustrator, Tony De Saulles. He came and joined the children for the day to teach them some exciting drawing techniques. Tony is well known for illustrating the Horrible Science series of books. He's been an illustrator for many years, and does fantastic school visits with workshops for the children to join in. His workshops are very interactive, and the children get to shout out what they'd like him to add to his drawing - as well as all drawing along with him.

We were lucky enough to have Tony with us for the whole day, and he did drawing sessions with the whole school.

He started off by drawing a snail on a fork, and then moved on to small fish being eaten by bigger fish! The children found all his illustrations very amusing. He showed them techniques to draw different facial expressions, slime, dangerous creatures, blood - all in his cartoon style.

Most of the teachers also had a go too at drawing - I expect many hidden talents were discovered!

Tony's visit was very inspirational for the children, and we are very pleased he was able to visit us. He left us with all his lovely drawings that we will frame and put up around the school. He also dedicated, to the school, one of his books to go in the library.

Easter Egg Hunt

Every year FOBS organise an Easter Egg Hunt for the entire school! This is a great afternoon, that all the children really enjoy.
The younger children had the challenge of finding two halves of an egg, the same colour. These were all hidden in the woodland area of the school. There were extra whole eggs hidden that contained house points for them to win as a bonus!

The older children had much more of a challenge. There were lots of questions hidden all around the school grounds. They had to find them, in order. Then take the first letter of their answer, and figure out and unscramble an Easter related word. This was quite tricky, but they all got there in the end.

Lots of chocolate was enjoyed by all :)

Chinese New Year

The Early Years Class really enjoyed putting on their first assembly, in front of the whole school. There weren't any nerves, and they all proudly stood up and showed us the dragons and lanterns they made to celebrate Chinese New Year.

They then put on the story, with actions about how all the animals had a race to decide the order of years for Chinese New Year. They had each made an animal to show in the story. It was a lovely assembly. They finished by singing us a song all about Chinese New Year, including some Chinese words they had learnt.

Icelandic Day - Land of Fire & Ice

Earlier in the year, the topic of the term for years 3 & 4 was Iceland - the Land of Fire and Ice. The children all really enjoyed this, and at the end of the half term all the parents were invited to the school to hear about their findings.

They put on a fantastic afternoon for everyone, and set up the hall as if it was an Icelandic Tourism Information Centre. You could wander freely between exhibits the children had made, and they helped parents to learn Icelandic phrases, and imagine they were planning a trip to Iceland!

Everyone got to watch a volcanic eruption, enjoy Icelandic cakes, look at all the fantastic projects the children had done. There were computer coding animations they'd produced, and at the end we were treated to a traditional Icelandic dance. It was clearly a topic the children enjoyed learning about, and really captured their imagination for pretending we were all going on a trip to Iceland.

Cinema Club

Every term FOBS run a cinema club, open to the whole school. This is a great opportunity for everyone to relax after school, with their friends. They all enjoy refreshments and a good film!

Butser Ancient Farm

One of the subjects Year 3 studied was the Stone Age. For this they learnt about all aspects of what it would have been like living through that time.
To help the children get a better idea of what life then would have been like, they had a brilliant trip to a Stone Age Village - Butser Ancient Farm.

 We were very lucky to have such a beautiful sunny day for our visit, as all the activities we did were outside. We had some great guides, who were very enthusiastic telling us about what life then would have been like. The children sat in a Stone Age house, with an open fire inside. It was very dark and smokey, but it gave them a good idea what it would have been like living in one of those houses.

 We then did some great Stone Age activities, including archeology (to see how we discover about our past). Many children found animal bones, old jewellery and pottery. We then did some fence wattling, chalk carving and copper jewellery making.

It really was a fantastic day, and created a very memorable experience for the children.