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What a fantastic time we had today running a mile or for some, much more than a mile and raising money for charity. We raised £450!
Thank you to the families and children who took part from across the federation.
Children from across the Federation attended The Big Bang - Science and Engineering show at the NEC to explore how science and maths was used in the real world. The children had a fantastic time and more photos can be found in the Gallery.
What a fantastic achievement for our Federation!!14 children from across the Federation took part in the John Taylor Athletics tournament. There were a variety of events which the children took part in from, running, obstacle courses, and field events.
3 schools took part and the children had a great time. We were the overall winners for the tournament which is great for all of our children and the Federation.
Children prepared wonderful thoughts, readings, songs and pictures to present to the mothers and families who attended our beautiful, reflective and fun service.
As part of our commitment to educating children about British Values and citizenship we have been learning about the governance of the country and about the democratic electoral process. Our children have been very lucky to have been able to work with the parish council, and Class 4 in particular have all been able to experience a mock council meeting in class and to hear about the role of the Parish council.
Additionally, to cement this understanding further the Parish Council opened an invitation for pupil representatives from school to see a real Parish council meeting, allowing them the opportunity to appreciate the role of the school in the local community and to see how they, as local citizens, can impact upon change in the locality and our 4 parish council representatives attended a further formal, meeting which was held on Monday 7th March 2016. Pupil councilors explored and voted on several issues such as parking, litter, dogs in the village, speeding and the park. There are several actions for the children to feed back to peers and to work on before the next meeting.
I was so very proud of the children, they spoke incredibly confidently and the preparation they put in was exceptional, allowing them to discuss with self-assurance at a level which I think Newborough Parish council were pleased with. What a great experience for them and supporting the already super links we have wit our community. We thank the Parish council for their time and wonderful approach to working with our children.
All the children across the federation enjoyed a visit from the vets, they enjoyed taking part in discussions about how to care for pets, dressing up as vets when they are in consultations and in the operating theatre as well as having the opportunity to ask lots of questions. We would like to thank the staff from Scarsdale Vets for taking the time to come and visit us.
All children across the federation have enjoyed world book day, dressing as a character from the traditional tales and exploring books in class! This compliments the work we are already doing to continue to develop reading such as our reading book buddies, sharing what we are reading across the school and our reading challenge as well as quality guided reading!