World Book day

World Book Day

This Thursday the children celebrated World Book Day by arriving at school dressed in a nautical theme and the school was awash with pirates, sailors, mermaids, crabs, turtles and even the Titanic!

The theme was based on the book ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’, and the children used the book to create all sorts of fantastic work in the afternoon: Maple Class created their own lunchboxes for the lighthouse keeper, Yr2 wrote diary entries, Yr 3 created amazing pictures of lighthouses inspired by the book, Yr4 wrote their own sea shanties and performed them to the class, Yr5 investigated Lighthouses and created amazing 2 page information spreads and year 6 rewrote the story from the point of view of the seagulls!

At Stanmore we don’t leave reading for pleasure to chance and the children all have access to Reading Buddies and our online library app, SORA. We have also launched a challenge for children to win their very own reading Blue Peter badge. Application forms can be found on Google Classroom.

Maple

Maple class have dived right into all things nautical this week in the lead up to World Book Day. We've engaged well with LOTS of stories linked to pirates, the seaside, or aquatic animals. These stories have inspired us to sing songs, create ships from interlocking cubes and junk modelling, props for a pirate/sailor, a lunch box for the Lighthouse keeper, as well as beautiful collage Jellyfish to decorate the classroom.

Birch

Children in Birch Class enjoyed an eruption on Wednesday as they learnt more about the different types of volcanic eruptions and varieties of volcanoes. 

Sycamore

Sycamore Class have had another busy week! 

In our art project 'animal' we have been studying animal form and how to sketch them. After that, we took a closer look at their patterns, printing them using paints. 

Can you guess the animal?