A colourful week at Stanmore Primary School

Children in Need

This week the children combined Children in Need with Maths by wearing Pudsey related clothes on Friday and taking part in daily Pudsey Maths Challenges. The children used this as an opportunity to collect donations for Children in Need and improve their problem solving skills!

R2L

Ready to Learn have been very creative and co-operative this week whilst thinking about how our behaviours can affect other people.

Using the theme of anti-bullying week, we considered how it is important to celebrate our uniqueness!

We each decorated a jigsaw puzzle to show that although we are different, we make a perfect team when we work together.

Co-operation was also demonstrated when team R2L made a beautiful Rangoli pattern together to celebrate Diwali. First, we dyed the rice and then we worked together to make a beautiful picture. 

Teamwork definitely makes the dream work.

Maple

This week, children in Maple Class have been starting to learn about 'Our Wonderful World'. They used Google earth to spot land and sea, zooming in to find Stanmore Primary School! They located the continents on a map and used this knowledge to label them on a globe. 

Rowan

Habitat hunting

This week Rowan class went on a habitat hunt around our beautiful school grounds. They were thinking carefully about what animal and plant life could be living in our local environment and found a wide selection of invertebrates. The highlight was hunting down a centipede's family and seeing some squirrels scurry across the trees. 

Sycamore

What a busy week it has been in Sycamore Class! We’ve been to Forest School, we’ve watched a choir performance, we’ve carried out the next part of our longitudinal study about the school grounds and we have written persuasive speeches in role as Erik the Viking, convincing his friends to join him on one final quest! We also wore odd socks for Anti-Bullying Week!

Aspen

This week the children in Aspen class have been researching important people in history and have created their own information text based on what they found. We have also started our new Geography topic 'Investigating our World'. The class enjoyed using Digimaps to explore the local area, particularly looking at the contour lines of St Catherine's Hill and comparing the height to Ben Nevis. 

Elm

Year 6 have been working hard this week on their Topic and Science, learning all about the abolishment of the slave trade and researching famous cardiac scientists. They have explored the ways that enslaved people managed to revolt whilst working in the plantations and we discovered about communities called Maroons which consisted of enslaved people who had escaped and live in freedom.