Christmas at Sheriffhales

We would like to wish all of our children, parents and carers a very merry Christmas and a happy, peaceful New Year.

School re-opens for children on Tuesday 6th January 2015.

Yummy Chocolate!

Class 2 enjoyed chocolate treats today.

Huge thanks to Mrs Hodgetts and Mrs Rooney for making the activity possible and to all the parents who sent in lovely fruit with their children.

If we don't get a chance to say, Mrs Hanson, Mrs Neal, Mrs Guy, Mrs Tranter and Miss Hodgkins would like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas.

Rock around the flock!

We are very much looking forward to our Christmas performance this year. Dress rehearsals went well today,  and we are looking forward to sharing the children's hard work with parents and families on Tuesday at 5pm and Wednesday at 9.30am.

A message from Alan Peat

Lucy took up Class 3's online writing challenge and wrote a really imaginative and superbly constructed newspaper report.

Mrs Preece-Dawson tweeted her piece of writing and the international teacher trainer and author of many books on improving children's writing replied!

Read Lucy's newspaper report on Class 3's wiki, here.

Recycler the Robot!

Sheriffhales had a fantastic visit today from 'Recycler the Robot' and learnt all about 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle'!

Our materials walk.

Class 2 had an almost-dry walk around Sheriffhales today.

We looked at the housing and the materials that were being used in them.

We found lots of different materials but surprisingly very little plastic!

We hope you like our photos!

Class 3 authors were "tweeted" by Cressida Cowell!

Amelia J and Lucy have been writing a story based on Cressida Cowell's "How to train your dragon"books. They were thrilled to receive a message from the famous author via Twitter this week!

Sheriffhales' Published Authors!

We all had an amazing day yesterday when Beth Evans and Adam Ormrod from the Lend Me Your Literacy team came into school to work with our children.

Every pupil's work is now posted online, and we are hoping for lots of comments from around the world about their marvellous writing!

You can see the children's work here:

Class one

Class two 

Class three

 

Some pictures from our LMYL day:

Class 3 homework

Please visit Class 3's wiki page for details of this half term's writing homework task:
http://class3sheriffhales.wikispaces.com/

Photo courtesy of Laszlo Balkanyi, One Big Photo, via www.lendmeyourliteracy.com

Thank you

A big thank you to http://www.historic-newspapers.co.uk/ who have provided a free newspaper pack to enrich Class 3's learning about the Titanic in the second half of Autumn Term.

Harvest Service

We said a tearful goodbye to Mrs Hancocks during our Harvest Service on Thursday, and wish her well for her future.

Children in Class 3 raised over £65 for the Melting Pot Cafe in Bilston by raffling their tear and share Harvest Tree loaves.

Thank you to all parents and carers for your generosity in donating for Mrs Hancock's leaving gift, the bread raffle and non-perishable food for the Melting Pot.

Digital artwork

Class 3 used the school ipads to create digital artwork in the style of Man Ray.

Pumpkin week

This week, children across all three classes have been enjoying all things 'pumpkiny'! We read "Pumpkin Soup" by Helen Cooper to start the week off, and each class has focused their learning this week around pumpkins.

e-Safety newsletter

e-Safety is a very important aspect of the children's learning in school, and this term children will be looking at how to keep themselves and others safe online.


We would also like to share e-Safety tips and pointers with parents and carers, via a newsletter produced by "Esafety Adviser". Parents are being sent a copy of the latest newsletter via our own Sheriffhales newsletter, which can also be downloaded from:


Esafety newsletter website

Proms in the Park comes to Sheriffhales!

This morning, we enjoyed a musical extravaganza as the orchestra and keyboard players delighted us with a mini open-air concert!

Family Fun Afternoon

We had a wonderful afternoon on Tuesday. The children and their families had a picnic on the field with staff, before enjoying rounders, biscuit decorating, maypole and playground games.

Stop Press!

Class 2 have made news reports about the plight of Borneo's endangered orangutans. 

We found out about deforestation and the dreadful impact it is having on the country's wildlife as part of our Rainforests topic.

Alfie and Ellie B.

Carys

George and Jason

Joe K. and Declan

Lucia and Amelia

Lucy and Matilda

Maya and Ellie W.

Mitchell and Sam

Olivia and Hope

Sheriffhales joins the world of work! Can you guess what the children want to be?

Thanks go to Rev Chris, Mary Jones and Gordon Tonkinson for helping Mrs Guy and Mrs Riley to conduct our Y5 and 6 'job' interviews. Matthew and Ethan got the jobs!