St Andrew's Church of England Primary School An intelligent heart acquires knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. Proverbs 18:15

Kingfishers

Now for fire lighting,building and cooking. Yum! Yum! Yum!

Den building - fun,fun,fun in the rain and mud, showing our amazing teamwork.

Our School Trip to Woodside Farm - an amazing woodland walk - Can you spot the spider?

P.E WOW WEEK - Next up - Salsa Dancing with Mr Hunter and Golden Eagles

P.E WOW WEEK - Relaxing yoga to start our wonderful active sport week.

Steel Pan Workshop with Mr Arter.

Kingfishers enjoyed a wonderful session with Mr Arter learning about and playing the steel pans. They learnt that a steel pan is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago, that steel pan musicians are called pannists. They learnt to play a piece of music and were able to showcase this in a special collective worship at the end of the school day.

Steel Pans - Mr Arter music workshop

Exploring materials - Solids, Liquids and Gases.

First Aid Training - learning vital skills to save lives.

Check out our amazing displays, showing our hard work.

Origami Lesson - Making my own 'Whale'

WORLD OCEAN DAY!

THE FISH IS FILLING UP WITH PLASTIC!

Our fish is getting fuller!

We have been learning about how the plastic in the Ocean is effecting the sea-life.

They are not just being killed by plastic, but fish and other marine life are digesting it - this in turn effects many food chains.

This was the empty structure before the weaving of plastic and the filling started.

Ocean Art

Ocean Poems and reading The Little Mermaid.

Ocean Poems - Ocean Helpers, Ocean Supporters, Ocean Fans, and Ocean Lovers.

Plastic Pollution - Sorting plastic and making tables and graphs with the data.

On Friday 7th June, World Ocean Day is coming to thousands of schools in the UK, and we are participating!

The day will be packed full of creative and informative ways to increase our connection to the ocean and the connection the ocean has to us everyday. There are two themes that we will explore “Connection to Water” and “Impact on the Ocean”, and the day will be tailored to the age of your child and the schedule for the day.

We will be following up at the end of the day with how to continue the learning journey for your child and the connection the ocean, for now all we ask is to send your child to school dressed in blue or even as their favourite sea creature!

Thanks for being a part of World Ocean Day for schools 2019!

“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.”

Sylvia Earle

In literacy, children have written some super animal poems. Animal Magic inspired and taught all of us lots of new facts about a range on animals. It was a great 'hands on' experience.

Kingfisher's have also written a narrative poem about a whale's journey from the North to the South Atlantic. On his travels, he encounters a lot of plastic and destruction caused by it. Consequently, the whale decides to become a plastic hoover machine, and hoover up all the plastic in the Atlantic Ocean to save any more sea-creatures from dying and also help reduce the plastic pollution.

Ocean Plastic Pollution!

Is plastic fantastic?

Or is plastic is drastically killing our Ocean Blue Planet?

Kingfisher Class are PI Investigators:

We are investigating plastic and looking at solutions to reduce, reuse and encourage recycling on our planet.

WHY?

There are huge amounts of plastic in the world and it’s thought that around 12 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year.

That’s a full rubbish truck every minute!

45% of households recycling a week in the UK.

Can we encourage more households to recycle plastic or at least REDUCE their plastic waste weekly?

We hope so, watch this space for our ideas and our work to show the effects of plastic on our precious planet.

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Animal Magic - Sticky Facts!

Easter Bonnet Parade- Easter Wow Week!

The Mystery of the Easter Bunny Costume: Problem Solving.

Acting out the Easter Story - Holy Week.

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