This week has been very eventful. On Monday, Martin Malone kicked off the first Artspace workshop after school. Children began designing their own tiles in preparation for a permanent art display at the Xcel Centre.
Year 2 visited the Partnership Centre in Cheylesmore as part of their topic on the Victorians. Children had fun dressing up in Victorian clothes as well as making bookmarks. They also painted pictures of Victorian houses using stencils. You can see a display of their work outside the hall.
On Wednesday, Mr Combellack from the Warwickshire Cricket Board started after school cricket sessions for Key Stage 2 children. There are still some places left and each session costs £1. Please speak to the office staff if your child is interested.
This afternoon, two singers (Peter and Charlie) from Armonico Consort, came to visit Key Stage 2. They recently worked with Year 5 to produce a musical in a day and were overwhelmed by our children’s achievements. They played singing games with the children & taught them a short African song. If your child was inspired and would like the opportunity to participate in their choir, please return the slip from the letter they will be bringing home today, to the office. They are offering places at a very reasonable rate of 50p a week.
Finally, the Year 6 breakfast club started today and was a huge success. The majority of the pupils came for breakfast and had fun testing their mental maths skills as part of an inter-house competition. Mrs Knibb commented on how much more relaxed the children were before their mock tests. Breakfast club will continue next week.
Newsletter Friday 23rd April 2010
I do hope that everyone had an enjoyable Easter holiday and that any members or friends of your family are now back safely if they were caught up in the chaos caused by the volcanic ash plume. I can assure you that Mrs Brook (stuck in America) and myself (stuck in Gibraltar) are both really glad to be back at school after very exhausting long journeys home!
The first week back has proved memorable for our Year 6 and 12 Year 5 children as they were all involved in our Business Activity Day on Wednesday. You may recall that Leigh is one of 36 schools spread across the whole of England that is piloting a ‘Career Related Learning’ project for 10/11 year olds. The Business Day is one of the activities and was interesting for all concerned. We had representatives of Cavendish Engineering, Dennis Eagle Manufacturing, Coventry Building Society, Jaguar, Landrover, JRH Builders and Ericsson communications. Children took it in turns to work with each business and try to understand about skills required for work. Feedback from the businesses again underlined how well behaved and focussed our children can be.
Matt Bramhall has also been in recording the lovely ‘peace’ songs written by our Year 4 and 5 children. These will be performed at Coventry Cathedral in June.
Year 4 have started swimming and cricket coaching has already re-commenced.
Our children had the opportunity to eat Roast Beef and all the trimmings on St. Georges Day today.
We have a busy term ahead of us with children being involved in special arts projects, involvement in a dance interpretation for the Coventry Mysteries Play, a film making project for Year 6 (after SAT’s week) and Year 2 are involved in a dance production for the Cov Cool Kids project.
Please remember that school is closed on 3rd May for Bank Holiday and also Thursday 6th May as the school is used as a polling station.
The first week back has proved memorable for our Year 6 and 12 Year 5 children as they were all involved in our Business Activity Day on Wednesday. You may recall that Leigh is one of 36 schools spread across the whole of England that is piloting a ‘Career Related Learning’ project for 10/11 year olds. The Business Day is one of the activities and was interesting for all concerned. We had representatives of Cavendish Engineering, Dennis Eagle Manufacturing, Coventry Building Society, Jaguar, Landrover, JRH Builders and Ericsson communications. Children took it in turns to work with each business and try to understand about skills required for work. Feedback from the businesses again underlined how well behaved and focussed our children can be.
Matt Bramhall has also been in recording the lovely ‘peace’ songs written by our Year 4 and 5 children. These will be performed at Coventry Cathedral in June.
Year 4 have started swimming and cricket coaching has already re-commenced.
Our children had the opportunity to eat Roast Beef and all the trimmings on St. Georges Day today.
We have a busy term ahead of us with children being involved in special arts projects, involvement in a dance interpretation for the Coventry Mysteries Play, a film making project for Year 6 (after SAT’s week) and Year 2 are involved in a dance production for the Cov Cool Kids project.
Please remember that school is closed on 3rd May for Bank Holiday and also Thursday 6th May as the school is used as a polling station.
End of Term Newsletter Thursday 1st April 2010
The end of term!! I do hope that everyone has a Happy Easter and plenty of quality family time.
We have had an eventful week in school. Our Year 4 children performed their peace songs to other schools as part of the Cov Kool Kids event. All the songs were received extremely well. Our Year 5 and some Year 4 had a chance to perform a play in a day, learning script and traditional songs in the process.
We braved the weather today and managed to complete some of our inter-house sports.
Rev. Steve Burch has been in school leading assembly on each day. The children should now be well prepared for Easter.
We will be sad to say goodbye to Shania Cooke, who is leaving Year 5 today to relocate with her family nearer the centre of Coventry.
We re-start school on Monday 19th April 2010
We have had an eventful week in school. Our Year 4 children performed their peace songs to other schools as part of the Cov Kool Kids event. All the songs were received extremely well. Our Year 5 and some Year 4 had a chance to perform a play in a day, learning script and traditional songs in the process.
We braved the weather today and managed to complete some of our inter-house sports.
Rev. Steve Burch has been in school leading assembly on each day. The children should now be well prepared for Easter.
We will be sad to say goodbye to Shania Cooke, who is leaving Year 5 today to relocate with her family nearer the centre of Coventry.
We re-start school on Monday 19th April 2010
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