Today in School the children will be celebrating the Queen's Jubilee with a Garden Party! They are invited to bring cakes and sweets and dress in red, white and blue!
Yesterday the children enjoyed making cucumber sandwiches in honour of the Queen. They had to butter the bread, cut the cucumber and then cut the sandwiches into 4 triangles. We were impressed by some children's skills using cutlery!

Have a great half term and we look forward to hearing about all your Jubilee celebrations in the new term!

Remember children do not come back to School until Tuesday 12th June.

Miss Smith

Mini Olympics!

We had an exciting day today in st Clare's! We began with an Olympic quiz to see just how much the children had learned! We were amazed at the level of their knowledge about the London 2012 games! 3 teams Scored 100% and the other 2 only got 2 questions wrong!
Well done children!
Later on we held out cLass mini Olympics! The children participated in events such as running, cycling and javelin! The winners received gold, silver and bronze medals to keep! Each child also recieved a certificate congratulating them on their Olympic achievements!
It really has been a great topic with all the children enjoying learning so much about London, the Olympic games and their history!

Reminders: half term next week!
Para liturgy is this Friday 1st June at 10am in the church

The class have really enjoyed learning about London, the host city for the London 2012 Olympics. We studied landmarks, learned about the Royal family. Today they enjoyed making posters advertising the London Olympics! Have a great weekend!

Please can I remind all parents to send in a sun hat for the children to wear on the playground and in our outside area.
We also advise that you apply sun lotion to your child before school to cover them when playing outside throughout the day.

Many Thanks

Rebecca Adlington letter

St Clare's class received a very exciting package today. Olympic swimmer Rebecca addlington replied to our letters, answering our questions, sharing her training schedule and sent us some signed photographs! We were so excited and thankful to her for taking the time to reply!!! Hopefully Tom Daley will reply to us!

We are really enjoying our Olympic topic in St Clares! It's great to hear your feedback on your child's learning, mnay of you have commented on how much your child is coming home and telling you! Please leave any feedback in the comments box below!

Today we enjoyed learning about the Paralympics, and celebrated how anyone can have great skills as long as they work hard and train well! We were amazed at the skills of the Paralympic athletes!

We enjoyed having the chicks in our class today! We all had the oppertunity to hold the chicks and have a picture taken with them! They have grown so much already! We could see their feathers replacing their fluffy coats, and they were very lively and noisy!

Today we wrote letters to Olympic hopefuls Tom Daley and Rebecca Adlington, wishing them good luck in the London 2012 games. Each child chose which athlete they would write to and asked them questions, offered support and wished them well!
We posted the letters to the athletes fan mail addresses, so we hope they will reply to us!

Today we also enjoyed being creative with paint. First we listened to some classical music and described how it made us feel, or what it reminded us of. We then tried to capture our feelings by visually creating them in paint!

Can you see your art work?

Enjoy the Summer Fayre tomorrow! (12pm to 3pm) Have a lovely weekend! Miss Smith x

I also wanted to let you know that for the next weeks we have a student Teacher on her final placement in class with us, Miss Casey! The children are really enjoying her exciting lesson plans and new activities!

We are lucky enough to have baby chicks in School at the moment! This morning, the eggs in the incubator hatched and we have 8 beautiful, fluffy chicks!
The children enjoyed learning about how to keep them safe, and all thought they were extremely cute!
Here are some photos of them!

I couldn't resist a cuddle!

Today we enjoyed learning about Pictograms. These are a way of collecting and storing data instead of using numbers. We used an image of a medal to display how many medals each Olympian had won!

We also enjoyed learning some facts about Tom Daley, Rebecca Addlington, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis, our Olympic hopefuls!

PLEASE CAN I REMIND ALL PARENTS TO ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO KEEP TOYS AT HOME!

We have had a few incidents where toys are being bought in and misplaced or broken. Thank you.

Today the children enjoyed making edible Olympic torches! We used ice cream cones, squirty cream and yellow sprinkles to create yummy Olympic torches!
The children were fascinated to learn how the real Olympic torch is carried around the country! We also looked at the London 2012 torch and discussed what it was made out of, and whether we liked the design!


Here's some photos of us making our torches!

This is a photo of our class Olympic torch! We also have a class Olympic table, decorated with flags, London 2012 fact sheets and stickers! If you have any Olympic themed items we would be happy to display them here!

Today the children looked at pictures of the Olympic torch! We used our own St Clares Olympic torch and marched it around the School, to let all the children know that the Olympics had begun. We also run the torch around the field to celebrate the Olympics! The children all had a photo with the torch! We know that London 2012 is a proud time for us and are enjoying learning about the celebrations, events and activities going on.