On Tuesday 22nd September, Year 4 stepped back in time for a day of all things Viking! The children arrived dressed as fierce Viking warriors, ready to immerse themselves in a range of exciting activities inspired by our History topic.

Throughout the day, the children put their learning to the test in lots of different ways. In Maths, they used their knowledge of coordinates to locate dragons across a map of Europe. During Guided Reading, they discovered how Vikings used runes and had a go at writing their own names using the Viking alphabet. In Literacy, the children took on the roles of Viking kings and queens, creating their own Viking laws and deciding on punishments for those who broke them.

The afternoon was filled with creativity as the children designed and made their own Viking shields before constructing longboats, ready to set sail on their very first Viking voyage! It was fantastic to see the children embracing the Viking spirit and enjoying a fun-filled day of learning!

For more pictures from the day, please see our gallery.

Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. They may have excelled in a particular subject through the week; may have shown one, or more, of the school values in abundance, or they may have impressed their teacher, or other staff members with a huge amount of effort. Whatever they are nominated for, they are recognised in the whole school achievement assembly, receive a certificate to take home and get to wear one of our prestigious black and gold t-shirts. 
During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

Our weekly winners this week are:

Elsie - 1EB

Hudson - 1RW

Rohaan - 2HS

Aylen - 2PW

Frankie - 3JC

Thea - 3KG

Vienna - 4HA

Zaira - 4DB

Ethan - 5LH

Amelia-Rose - 5SF

Mia - 6ES

Attendance Hero - Francesca - 4DB

Book Look Winner - Jayda - 6LM

Each week, during our Friday Achievement assembly, we celebrate our ‘Pupils of the Week’ from each year group. Pupils are recognised for this weekly award for a variety of reasons and are nominated by their class teacher. They may have excelled in a particular subject through the week; may have shown one, or more, of the school values in abundance, or they may have impressed their teacher, or other staff members with a huge amount of effort. Whatever they are nominated for, they are recognised in the whole school achievement assembly, receive a certificate to take home and get to wear one of our prestigious black and gold t-shirts. 
During the assembly, we also celebrate children who have 100% attendance for the week and have been in school every day on time. A lucky dip, of all children who are eligible takes place, and one pupil walks away with £5 to spend on whatever they want, Standards and presentation of a child’s book, chosen at random, are also reviewed and celebrated with the school and the child, whose book has been chosen, has the chance to win a dip out of the basket of goodies, as long as they have used their best handwriting every day, completed their feed forward marking and taken care in the presentation of their date and learning objective. We are extremely proud of all of the efforts of our pupils and the Friday Achievement assembly recognises this pride. 

Our weekly winners this week are:

Caleb - 1EB

Kairo - 2HS

Haider - 2PW

TJ - 3JC

Amelia-Rae - 3KG

Max - 4HA

Parker - 4DB

Brooke - 5LH

River - 6ES

Jesse-James - 6LM

Jaxon - 6NW

Attendance Hero - Phoenix - 1RW

Some of our children participated in an art competition to draw images of their hobbies and things to do outside of school last year, and these were the winners who now have their artwork displayed in the medical centre!

Our winners visited the medical centre this lunch time to see their artwork! Let us know if you pop in and spot any of our beautiful artwork on display!

Our overall attendance this week was 95.2%