April, 2016
Solar System
4th class have been very busy last week learning about the solar system. The girls did their own projects on some of the planets before making all of them using paper mache. The girls first had to cover balloons with multiple layers of newspaper and paste. Once they were dry the class went painting them. …
Japanese Cultural Talk
Mrs Greene is our only Japanese mother in the school. She came in to tell our 4th and 1st classes all about Japan and Japanese culture. She showed us Japanese newspapers, origami and pictures of beautiful Japan. Some of the children had the opportunity to try on her summer kimono. She even brought in her …
Green Fingers
The children have been busy with Anne replanting our vegetable garden. We will look forward to gathering the vegetables later on in the year and cooking with them.
Parent & Child Cookery
We now have a parent and child cookery club. On our first day the children made toffee apples with their mums. They were delicious.
Baba Marta
We learnt all about Baba Marta in First Class. This is a tradition in Bulgaria to mark the start of Spring and one of the parents in First Class came in to explain all about Baba Marta to us. We asked lots of great questions and were able to write all about it.
First Class Flowers
First Class love going on Spring walks around the garden. They took great care of their flowers there. We made sure they had enough water and sunlight to grow. The yellow daffodils and red tulips were ready to take home at Easter.
Trip to Waterstone’s
First Class were very lucky to go on a trip to Waterstone’s for World Book Day. We walked all the way from school into the city with 5th Class! Everyone used their book voucher to buy a book in the shop. It was a great adventure!