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This evening Wroxton School choir took part in the Big Summer Sing, alongside other local primary schools including St Mary's C of E Primary School, Banbury. The children showed courage in everyone of the songs and we are so very proud of each of them.
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Building on this term’s ‘in class’ DT (toy, bunting and flag designing and making) tool experiences, in Forest School, Mrs Garcia has taught Eagles to use a saw to cut log slices from branches. Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to share their photos and memories with us of their time at Wroxton School. Kestrels have loved hearing how the school has changed over the last 80 years. Here are some pictures of the timeline we have built up over the term. Over the term we have improved our prototypes’ mechanisms by making rounder, smoother, thicker wheels and also fixing our wheels to the axle. To prevent sliding we have built axle holders that ensure the wheels rotate and the base rolls. Inspired by “The Monster Zoo” by Amy Sparks. We created a design, sourced resources and tools, constructed and then, today, decorated our products. Evaluating our toys and different materials we decided, if they were manufactured, the material used should change to plastic; as unlike cardboard, plastic does not rip easily nor disintegrate when wet. Also plastic comes in many colours, is durable, can be moulded into rounded shapes and is safe to be put in toddlers mouths! As part of our PSHE today Kestrels were thinking about keeping ourselves clean and healthy. We discussed why and when we was our hands, recapped the process of good handwashing and then had a good ourselves. If you are also wondering if some of us need to focus on developing our hair washing skills, don't worry it was all part of FOW crazy hair day!
As part of learning about the history of the school, Kestrels have interviewed two former pupils. Today they asked Miss West questions, she attended Wroxton during the 1990's. The children have loved reading people's memories that were emailed to us so thank you for taking the time to do so. They also learnt how to place information on a timeline. Reception are really enjoying having Activator’s sessions this term. Learning and experiencing a range of fun games has helped the groups’ listening, cooperation and coordination skills to further blossom “Ke-Eagles” (Kestrels and Eagles combined! ) have adapted quickly to changes in this weeks’ morning routines and are really supporting each other to be their best-selves in all curriculum areas and enhanced provision tasks. In Maths, Year 1 and 2 have been focusing on fractions. They have been recognising and finding halves, quarters and thirds of both objects and quantities and using practical, pictorial and written methods. We listened to 1940s songs whilst we learned about VE Day celebrations that were held on 8th May 1945. We looked at old photographs to identify bunting and flags from VE Day street parties and also noticed the paper party hats. We designed ‘traditional’ bunting on paper to commemorate either VE Day or May Day and then ready, for our End of Term Revels, Year 1 children wove bunting using card board, wool and scraps of material whilst Reception learned how to loop and tie rags to create different bunting. Some of us then made our own newspaper party hats! Kestrels had a fun time at a multi skills event for year 2 children at Wykham Academy.
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