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Environmental news!
Great news - The poly
tunnel is now finished
and is looking really
fantastic. Now we can
all be busy growing
fruit, vegetables and
plants.
Eco Club members
are very proud
of the willow
tepee they
planted last
night. They used
shoots that had
previously
been trimmed
from the bowers.
Lets hope it
grows really
well so on hot
sunny days we
can sit in a
lovely shady
place.
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Year 6 Science work
Some Year 6 pupils had a
great time last week at
Sir Harry Smith
separating materials in
the science lab using
filtration and
evaporation processes -
they felt like real
scientists!
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Skip to be Fit
19 KS2 pupils of all
ages who had attended
TOPS sports clubs at
school were invited to
Sir Harry Smith's
recently to take part in
a skipping workshop.
We had 2 winners -
Natasha for the Best
Effort and Lucy for
doing the most skips in
2 minutes. Well
done to everyone who
attended - and they all
had a fantastic time.
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Foxes Class Assembly
Ahoy there! We all
enjoyed a fantastic
assembly by the Foxes on
Pirates - the pirates
all had lessons from the
Captain on how to be a
good pirate and learnt
such things as Pirate
speak and how to wash
down the deck.
All the parents now know
their children can do
lots more jobs at home
as well!
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New weather station
We would all like to say
a very big thank you to
The Friends of Park Lane
for buying our new
wireless weather
station. The monitor is
on the wall in the main
hall near East wing
door. Both children and
adults are enjoying
keeping an eye on our
local weather.
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Cheerleading for Year 5 and 6
Cheerleading
came to Park Lane school on
Monday afternoon with pupils
from years 5 and 6 getting the
chance to shake their pom poms.
After being taught some moves
like the chicken, shark, wiggle
and the John Travolta pupils
were given the chance to put
these moves into a dance of
their own. We look forward to
seeing what else they learn over
the next 4 weeks.
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A Victorian teacher arrives!
A new Victorian teacher came to
drill Year 3 in the playground,
and undertake some rather severe
teaching in the classroom. Year
3 will certainly have a good
insight in their new topic on
the Victorians.
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Year 3 presentations
The Year 3's homework over last
half term was to plan a
presentation about an interest,
hobby or something they had done
over half term. They were
visited by both Misty the dog
and African snails!
Other presentations have been
about dancing, Karate, pets,
trips to the zoo, Brownies and
chickens.
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Visiting author
Pupils from Y2 to Y6 were
visited by Jack Trelawny, who
talked to them about the latest
series of books he has written.
He also encouraged the pupils to
think about how they start
writing stories and what sort of
ideas can really entertain their
reader.
A lot of pupils bought one of
his books and were lucky enough
to have it signed by Jack
Trelawny!!
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Poly Tunnel at last!
After delays in us obtaining
planning permission, Andrew
Carter has begun digging the
footings for the school's poly
tunnel. He is hoping to put up
the poly tunnel in the next
couple of weeks so we are all
very excited. Watch this
space for more news.
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Stibbington Week
Children from Year 4 are
attending Stibbington this week,
and were very excited when they
left this morning..
Please look at the Stibbington
Diary 2010 link to the left of
this page to keep up to date
with what the children are
doing. The children will
be Tweeting in, so
click here
to find out what they're doing.
Please respond by having your
say on the
Blog.
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Creativity Week
Click here
or follow the link from the left
of this page to see pictures of
some of the exciting activities
the children experienced during
Creativity Week.
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Rugby Festival
Children from Years 5 and 6 took
part in a Rugby festival at Sir
Harry Smiths against other local
schools. After both teams
continuously won their games we
were declared the overall
winners. We look forward
to the county finals in March.
Well done to the two winning
teams.
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Creativity Week
Year 6 were great
performing their musical
stories to Year 1. They
performed the stories
adding actions and
musical sound effects to
groups.
It was lovely to see
them being really mature
and caring towards the
younger ones.
All the teachers swapped classes
and taught something creative in
another year group this week.
Mrs Bradshaw and Miss Brownsea,
who normally teach in Year 6,
went to Reception
where the pupils did two
activities; one activity
re-creating a piece of artwork
by Mondrian and one activity
re-creating artwork by Jackson
Pollock (splatter painting).
All the pupils worked really
hard and the picture shows some
of the artwork they created.
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Haiti Totals
The collective results of the
fundraising from school, and
parents exceeded £1500 - well
done to everyone concerned.
Our latest contribution came
from Year 4 who raised a grand
total of £377.28 by selling
cakes, homemade bookmarks and
did a sponsored silence.
Well done Yr 4.
Also Year 6 pupils
Jessica, Millie, Megan
and Ashlin spent one of
their days hopping from
place to place. They had
a tiring day hopping
around, but they managed
to raised a staggering
£90.60, which has been
added to the amount
already raised by the
rest of the school. Well
done girls.
The Squirrels told a story of a
very unusual Princess in their
class assembly - much to the
delight of their parents and the
school.
Then all of Year 1 had a sumptuous
banquet as part of their work on
Castles.
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Just say "Aahhh"
The Nursery welcomed their final
visitor with more information about
People Who Help Us. This time it was
Hannah's Mum who is a Community
Nurse. They learnt how to bandage
poorly arms, look carefully in
peoples ears and how to use a
stethoscope. Bethan and Anna had
great fun taking it in turns to use
the stethoscope like a real nurse.
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Using technology at Park Lane
Year 4 children are completely engaged with
their task of playing brain gym exercises
with each other on Nintendos
whilst Year 6 pupils were using Flipcams to
record information about their topic on
Japan.
All ages of
children at Park Lane are used to using
these technologies independently to support
their learning.
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"Hello, hello, hello"
PC Wright and PC Locke came to visit the
Nursery children and told them all the
different ways the police can help us. The
children were very interested in their belts
that had so many different tools and pieces
of equipment attached.- especially when they
could use the special police walkie-talkies!
A big thank you from all the Nursery
children to these two jolly policemen.
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Haiti Fund
Raising
East 2 were one of the last classes last week to
hold their fundraising event to raise money for
the Haiti disaster. The children brought
money to school on Friday in exchange for
playing games for half an hour and also sold
cakes to other pupils in the school. As well as
this, Ashley made a gingerbread house which
pupils could buy raffle tickets for. A winning
raffle ticket was drawn in today's assembly and
the photo shows Lucy as the proud winner!
E2
so far have raised £55, well done!!
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New
Lockers for Year 5 & 6
We are all very excited about the arrival of new lockers
for the older pupils.
The locker project was planned by a group of Gifted and
Talented pupils who had to measure the area, source and
cost the lockers, and decide on the positioning - helped
by Mr White and Mrs Triscott. The lockers will be
put into East Wing next week as well.
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Year 6
Residential to France
We are very pleased to announce that we will be going
ahead with the Year 6 residential trip to France in May.
We didn't get the number of families we initially needed
to make the trip viable, but Kingswood agreed to run
with this number. We are already looking forward
to going.
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FOPLS
Children's Disco
A great time was had by all at the recent disco -
including a dance by Park Lane's Michael Jackson,
Robert.
Many thanks to the Friends of Park Lane, FOPLS, for
organising these well attended events.
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Rabbit's Class Assembly
Pantomime fever hit Park Lane parents and children
as the Rabbits produced their own version of
Cinderella for their class assembly. It was
fantastic with great performances by all the
children. Well done to Miss Carter and her
team.
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Year 6 Playground leaders
A
group of Year 6 pupils are being trained up as
playground leaders with the help of Mrs Cradock from
Sir Harry Smith Community College.
These pupils will then support younger children with
playground activities during break and lunchtimes.
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Nee Naw Nee Naw
The
children had a wonderful morning and welcomed
Fireman Jim in to the Nursery with great enthusiasm.
We were so proud of the children who sat really
beautifully, showed their good manners and listened
to the important safety message about not touching
matches. Fireman Jim had brought some big photos of
the types of jobs he does and he showed us how
quickly he can put his special clothes on. What an
exciting day!
All
the ladies were very impressed too- especially Mrs
Hughes when he showed us the photo of a donkey he
had rescued from a well!
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Reception
Haiti fundraising
Reception
children had a sponsored Show and Tell session as their
contribution to raising funds for the Haiti earthquake
appeal - and really enjoyed themselves at the same time.
Other fund raising events
arranged are colouring competitions, How many sweets in
a jar, selling bookmarks, a Beetle Drive and many other
things. Many individual children are organising
their own Fund Raising as well so we'll keep everyone
posted about the money raised.
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Artist in
Residence
Miss
Carter's hard work drew results this week when Mr Rob
Howard came and worked with the Year 5 group and
families as part of the successful Awards for All bid.
Mr Howard will be working
with all year groups and their families throughout the
school as part of this project based on clay modelling
....this group made masks.....and everyone had fun.
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Haiti
donations
The money
raised so far on our dress down day, and including some
staff and parental donations is £541 so many
thanks to everybody. Further updates will be given
when we receive any more money in, after the classes
undertake their own fundraising.
Class fund
raising has also started....with Year 2 making a
substantial sum of money with their Hook a Duck game on
the playground at lunchtime.
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Year 3
Trip to Peterborough
Year 3
enjoyed their visit to Peterborough Cathedral and museum
last Friday - despite the rain.
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Hedgehogs
'Titantic' assembly
The
Hedgehogs gave an informative and entertaining assembly
to their parents and the school last week all about the
doomed voyage of Titanic. Well done to all the children
and adults involved. This picture shows Park Lane's Kate
Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio on the deck of the
Titanic.
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Early
Years
Straw Bear Parade
Reception
and Nursery children enjoyed their own Straw Bear parade
in school when Straw Bear visitors brought musicians and
demonstrated how they made the bears and the history
behind the Straw Bear.
The
children ended by following the bear and the musicians
in their own parade.
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Straw bear Pictures
Click here to see a
selection of this year's Straw Bear pictures. Our
wonderful group of Molly Dancers made all their
costumes, and choreographed their own dances.
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'Life and
Times' folk duo visit the school
As part of
our Straw Bear celebrations a group called 'Life and
Times' put on a show for all the children. The group
took us all around the country singing songs from winter
time celebrations.
With each
song a small group of Park Lane children were whisked
off behind the scenes to get dressed in traditional
costumes and learn a quick performance. We had Molly
Dancing, Sword Dancing, Wassailing and even a fire
festival from Stonehaven in Scotland.
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Newsletter
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you liked the look of the new newsletter. Why not
have a go at choosing a name for the newsletter?
Why not post your suggestions to the blog, from the Have
your Say button on the top left of this page?
Latest!
Webcasts
Don't
forget to listen to the teachers webcasts about the
exciting work they are all doing in class this term.
Click here to get
to the page.
Latest!
Straw Bear
Festivities have begun at Park Lane
Year 5
entertained parents and children by showcasing all the
work they had been doing about Whittlesey, and in
particular the Straw Bear in their assembly this week.
We
welcomed the Ceilidh band 'Fruitcake' to school this
morning to entertain some KS2 children in the lead up
week to the Whittlesea Straw Bear.
Remember that some Year 5 pupils will be
performing their Molly Dance and be part of the
procession so we look forward to seeing you there.
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Year 5
Rocket Launch Project
Despite
the bad weather with travelling Mrs
Gregory, Mr Ingham and their classes had a wonderful time at Cambridge
University experiencing a practical workshop in making a
rocket launcher - all the children then went outside to
see the rockets being launched.
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A Good
start to term
We were
all very pleased to see the children back at the start
of term and looking forward to a new term in school.
We are posting all the new class webcasts this week - so
be sure to have a look and see what your child will be
covering in class this term. Click
here to get to the page.
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Adverse
Weather conditions
The school
did look wonderful and wintery in the snow on the last
day of term. What a shame we didn't see the term
out though. There may be more incidents of inclement
weather during January but we will do our best to inform
parents of any school changes at the earliest
opportunity. We will make every endeavour to stay
open so please assume we will be open and look for
further clarification. Thank you.
