Woodpeckers Stone Age Day

On Wednesday we had an amazing day learning all about the Stone Age. We came to school dressed up as Stone Age cave people, with lots of animal prints, mud and back-combed hair! In the morning we stuck paper under our tables and turned all the lights off to pretend we were in caves to complete our cave paintings. We also created Stone Age survival guides to give to our parents about how to live in the Stone Age.

In the afternoon our parents came in and we could do lots of different activities with them. One parent, Lily D’s mum also joined us with dressing up! We made Stone Age houses and pots out of clay, painted using sticks and leaves and created hand stencils. We made 3D woolly mammoths and Stonehenge from paper and Stone Age cone people from paper.

Thank you parents for coming in for the afternoon and for supporting your children with this project.

We hope you all enjoyed the day!

Whole Class Success for our Budding Young Writers!

Just before Christmas, all the children in Skylarks entered a creative writing competition run by Young Writers. Our task was to write a short story about Time Travel. Our tales could be no longer than 100 words, which was actually much trickier than we first thought as we needed to include a beginning, middle and end.

Excitedly, we spent a few weeks planning, writing and improving our Time Travelling Tales. Our ideas included abandoned theme parks, dinosaurs, ancient Egyptians and zombies!

We had a brilliant surprise when a parcel arrived containing letters and certificates saying that we had all been accepted to have our stories published in a book. The book will be sent to the London library as well as lots of other libraries around the country. The school will receive a copy and our parents can purchase a copy to keep forever.

The book will be published on 30^th April 2016.

Everyone is feeling full of exhilaration and we are looking forward to seeing the outcome. Watch this space!

By Febie Byott (Year 4)