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Enrichment during 2018/19 written by Wiktoria and Caitlin (Year 6)
Thu 18 Jul 20192018-2019 review of the year
2018/2019 has been a great year full of excitement and fun with sporting events! We have achieved so much this year as we have completed many things for charity.
Term 1
The 5th of September came around - the first day back at school! All the classes from last year had moved up to the next class, which means harder work to do and much more memories to make.
On Tuesday 11th September Year 4 had their first drumming lesson ready for presentations later in the year for their parents.
At the beginning of the year we welcomed 2 new teachers, Mrs Barnes and Miss Thompson. They were interviewed by the school council and they had each a lesson to teach the classes.
Next was the Year 5 swimming crash course, they had an amazing opportunity to swim 25 metres across the Arc leisure centre swimming pool. That made many more children have confidence to swim.
Our school then collected foods for the Harvest festival for local food banks. We collected so much food from across the school that it didn’t even fit on one table!
In KS2, every class got a French teacher, she came in for 2 terms and we had her for exactly 40 minutes per class.
KS2 and KS1 had the pleasure of enjoying the Halloween disco, as so many people every year come to this disco, we have to have 2 parties because they wouldn’t fit into the hall. It is placed on October the 24th Wednesday.
Term 2
12th of November was Anti bullying week, the whole school celebrated this and we did many activities to do with this!
Another charity event came around, Children in Need 16th November! We dressed up historically.
Next, at around Christmas time, we made presents out of shoe boxes for people that do not get gifts at Christmas. The whole school took part and Sports Direct distributed them.
On the 30th November we got presented the Gold Sports Award and we were very proud of it. We deserved it so much.
On the 4th December we went down to the local church, St Michaels, for the tree service to look at the beautiful Christmas decorations that we had all made.
5th December -we got to go to Mansfield Palace theatre for the pantomime and we watched Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
On the 11th of December we had Christmas Jumper day where we wore Christmas jumpers for the whole day to raise money.
KS1 Nativity was on the 13th and 14th of December where they performed to the school and then to their parents.
The school then had their Christmas parties, KS2 had their party where they all joined together to have lots of fun and then KS1 had theirs on a different day.
We then had our Carols and Mince Pies Christmas festival where we sang lots of carols for our parents.
The choir sang at various venues including Kingsmill hospital and Mansfield market place.
Term 3
Book Day was placed on the 28th of January and we raised lots of money so our school would be able to buy new books for the whole school.
In January we welcomed a new teacher, Miss Walker, and she started teaching Year 1.
Term 4
Year 2 and Year 5 visited Derby Open Centre to learn all about R.E, this happened on the 4th of March.
Our first Rewards days were on the 14th and the 15th of February. We had many large trips and we enjoyed it so much!
Comic Relief was on the 15th of March and we raised money for people less fortunate than us.
Our choir got the amazing chance and experience to spend a night in London, Wembley. They performed in the Voice in a Million Wembley arena!
Lea Green then came for KS1 and 40 people went, both from Year 1 and 2. They went for 2 days and 1 night. They went on the 28th March and came back the next day but those 2 days were filled with fun.
Term 5
On April the 1st KS2 had their performance, Rocky Monster Show! They performed excellently, performing 4 times, once for the school and 3 times for the parents, 2 afternoons and an evening.
The Easter Egg Competition was placed on the 8th April and this year it was different as we painted our own eggs, then did lots of challenges with them, like rolling to the target, an egg and spoon race.
KS1’s SATs had started on the 6th of May where they worked very hard all through the week!
13th Of May year 6 started their hard SATs and worked tremendously hard through the 5 days! Luckily at the end, they had a party and relaxed.
The 2019 leavers, Year 6, went on a trip to relax and spend time together at Alton Towers. Going on lots of rides, they enjoyed their day there!
Foundation stage started their forest on the pit top where they worked hard to learn about everything.
Term 6
Next was the trip to Walesby, the year 3/4 enjoyed it so much it was packed with building/climbing to do. They were there the 5th-7th of June, which meant they stayed 2 days in total!
Year5/6 then stayed at Whitehall for a whole week, camping in the fresh outdoors, they did many activities to build their confidence to survive. The 10th of June till the 15th of June were their lucky days full of rain!
On the exact same week of Whitehall, the year 1s’ had a very important phonics test! It tested how much they had learned over the past year.
Sports day came around fast, week beginning 24th of June. KS1, Foundation Stage and KS2 had all separate ones. Chatsworth won overall, well-done!
Then 2 days after that was the summer fair! This year was probably the best year yet, we had inflatables, stalls, raffles and much more and a massive thankyou to Mrs Holmes for making it happen!
Reception had their lovely trip to Yorkshire sculpture park where they looked around at sculptures and much more. They went on the 2nd of July.
The sports Presentation was presented on the 2nd of July. Lots of people got awards and were very proud.
Then came the 3rd of July the day of Cleethorpes all year one and 2 were ready for what the day had to hold! They were also absolutely amazing out there - they followed all the instructions carefully.
Next was a very exciting fun after school day, it was the Year 6 leavers disco its was absolutely amazing it was so warm outside and we got to see all of our friends again! The leavers disco wasn’t just for year 6s it was for any ages!
Year 6 had their transition beginning 8th July, some went to Shirebrook some to Bolsover and Queen Elizabeth.
Next came was rewards day the 17th-18th the children got many Beks and got to choose where they wanted to go they had so many options and are so lucky!
Sports and after school clubs
*Year ½ had their football festival
*Ks1 athletics club
*year 5/6 tag rugby club
*Messy church lead by our vicar in our local church and other governors
*Choir lead by the head teacher, Mrs Johnson
*Year 5/6 Lawn Bowls lead by Mr Gamble and helped by the lawn bowls association
*Mrs Johnson and Mr Cutt took 8 people to table tennis 4 boys and 4 girls
*Year 1 went to the inclusion festival in Shirebrook academy
*Basketball club from Mansfield Giants, Ian, he actually took some people from the class to join Mansfield giants
*Sports hall athletics lead by Mrs Johnson, we got to the County finals
*Choir went to perform at Shirebrook academy
New Year New Club
*Basketball continues and Year 6 got taught personally by Ian, from Mansfield Giants
*An old student (Paige Allen) came in to teach some of KS2 a dance every Tuesday
*Tag Rugby was led by Mr Cutt and we reached the finals
*The dance festival was performed at the winding wheel and an ex-student came in to teach some of the KS2 children a dance.
* Basketball - and the first round was changed to Bench ball unexpectedly but still went well.
*The second round of Basketball was the normal game we were supposed to play in the first round but it still didn’t go as well but we tried our hardest.
Term 4
*KS1 Cheerleading came and was taught by Mrs Harrison
*Ks1 had Gymnastics and performed at Shirebrook
*Swimming Gala came around where Mrs smith took some Year 6 and 5s .
*Infant agility at Shirebrook 8th March.
*Year 5/6 basketball final, again they tried their best but didn’t win.
*Infant dance festival came at Heritage on the 22nd
*We completed the finals of Sports hall athletics in Derbyshire University
*KS1/2 SEN Festival at St Michaels at 2 pm 18th of May
As you can see, we have had a wonderful year and I am sure that we have still missed some of the wonderful things that we have got up to.
Thank you for reading our report.
Wiktoria and Caitlin
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Year 6 Leavers Assembly
Mon 08 Jul 2019There was not a dry eye in the house when year 6 gave their final performance and said goodbye to the school on Friday. They performed several sketches with a holiday theme and sang some songs.
They have been a fantastic cohort all the way through school and they will be greatly missed.
The year 6 staff wish to thank all the parents for their lovely gifts, cards and letters - they mean a lot to us.
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Sports Presentation Evening
Mon 08 Jul 2019Last Tuesday evening the school hall resembled a high class awards arena as we celebrated our Sporting heroes.
Lots of children and their parents dressed up and enjoyed a glass of bubbly (or orange juice) and toasted the winners.
many thanks go to Miss Appleton who co-ordinated the whole evening and acted as Master of Ceremonies as well.
It was a lovely evening for all concerned.
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Walesby residential trip Y3/4
Tue 25 Jun 2019Walesby Trip
The day started with all the children coming in at normal time and putting their stuff in the hall. We went into Year 4 and did the register to see if everyone was here. About an hour later we made posters for our room. There were lots of name rooms. At 11 o’clock we set off. At 11:30 we were there and had our lunch on the grass then we found our room, got our clothes, got out our sleeping bags and pyjamas, put them on our bed and went to get ready for our first activity.
One hour later we had finished our first activity. We went back to our lodge and played for half an hour. Then we went for our tea. One hour later we went to our second activity. At about 19:30 we set off to the campfire and we sang lots of crazy songs. We returned to the lodge were we all got our pyjamas on and got our pillows and teddies. We went to the hall and had hot chocolate and cookies.
The next day we got our lake clothes on and went to the lake, Our first lake activity was kayaking. The kayaks were attached together so it was easier to paddle.
We also had a go at bodyboarding which was successful. We had a disco until around 10:15pm and went to the shop we all had £5.00 to spend. On the last day we packed our bags- put them on the bus and went home.
By Iysha and Jessie
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Whitehall residential trip for Year 5/6
Tue 25 Jun 2019White Hall Trip
On Monday the 10th of June 2019 it was the day of Whitehall. Everyone who was going to Whit hall had to arrive at school at around 8:45 so we would leave approximately at 9:30. Everyone took all their luggage onto the bus and said goodbye to their parents, and then we set off.
After about an hour on the bus we arrived at Whitehall; it was foggy and cold outside but we just ignored the weather and got off the bus. We then obviously started unloading the bus, there was so many heavy bags to carry to the field that we were camping on. After unloading the bus, we were taught how to build our tents!
After that, we went off to put up our tents, and we were put in groups of 5 or 6 so we could work together to do it. We were lucky because when we had finished it had started to rain.
After building our tents, we went to Mrs Johnson to find out which tent was ours. Once we knew that we had to go to our tent, make our bed and put our pyjamas folded on top of our bed. Next, we made our way outside and ate our lunch we had brought with us from home.
After that we went to our first activity of the week and everyone enjoyed that. For the whole week we woke up, got ready and went down to the cottage and had breakfast. Then we had to get all of our bags ready for the activity that we were doing that day. Each day every group had a different activity but they had at least 2. After the activities we got back to camp had hot chocolate and a biscuit and went to bed. On Friday we went shopping and then went back to camp put all of our bags onto the bus and then put all the tents down and came back home.
Grace and Caitlin
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Easter egg competition
Tue 30 Apr 2019This year we decided to do things differently at Easter. The children decorated an egg - but only with crayons and paints - this was because the eggs had to take part in the "Eggolympics"
Each egg was judged on appearance and then it was rolled along the ground towards a target - the closer to the middle of the target - the more points that it scored.
The next event was an "Eggsticle race" which was against the clock. Many eggs didn't make it past this point!
Lastly, the eggs were attached to a home-made parachute and dropped from a window or a ladder. The final points were given depending on how well the eggs survived the drop!
It is fair to say that the children really enjoyed the whole competition and every child who entered were given an Easter egg which had been kindly donated by a parent. The final winners for each class received another egg.
Thank you to all parents for supplying the eggs and helping to make the parachutes.
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Extreme Wheels-Free holiday fun for KS2 in New Houghton
Tue 09 Apr 2019See poster image below for free fun for KS2 age pupils in New Houghton on Thursday 18th April.
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Key stage 2 Easter Performance
Tue 09 Apr 2019Last week saw the fantastic production of The Rocky Monster Show - a totally new play full of challenging songs and fantastic costumes.
Whilst Year 6 were relegated to SATs revision and recording the narrator parts, it was left to Years 3 - 5 to perform it - and perform it they did!
It was absolutely brilliant from start to finish, the main characters had so many lines to learn and the language in parts was quite technical. The staff had also worked hard to create a stunning backdrop, effective props and great lighting.
Thank you to all the children for working so hard, thank you to all the staff for the hard work they have put in and thank you to all parents and friends for supplying costumes and supporting us at all the performances.
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Lea Green
Wed 03 Apr 2019What a fabulous time we all had at Lea Green! It was great to see every child having a go at every activity that was offered to them. The most loved activities included The Ropes Course, The Zip Wire, The Obstacle Course, The Buggies and The Treasure Hunt. As the weather was amazing, the children were also lucky enough to have a picnic and some free time playing on the park and exploring the grounds. The children were an absolute credit to the school and we received numerous comments about how well mannered the children were when walking around the buildings as well as sitting at the dining tables. We loved the food, especially the lamb roast dinner. They loved it that much that most children even had seconds – we just couldn’t fill them! All children worked so hard during the day that bed time was well received by every child – within a few minutes of being in tucked up in bed, every child was settled and fast asleep without any issues at all! A big thank you to all the parents who helped their child to pack their bags, this made the children more organised and independent which enabled them more time to enjoy the activities. Hopefully your child has had chance to tell you all about their experience at Lea Green and there will be a photo disc available if you’d like to see how much fun they had! ,
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Sportshall Athletics
Wed 03 Apr 2019This week Mrs Johnson and Miss Appleton took our year 5/6 team to the County finals of the Sportshall athletics competition. To reach this stage of the competition is a fantastic achievement in itself and we were competing with schools that had over 600 pupils in them.
The children tried really hard and did their absolute best - they were unrelenting and even when they were not in the lead, they never gave up and supported each other brilliantly.
Everyone had practised hard before hand and on the day, despite not winning a medal, they all enjoyed themselves.
Well done to all the team and coaches.
