March 15, 2010
How do you look after a pet dog?
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As part of the 'Carnival of Animals' topic, the children have been finding out about how to take care of different animals. To support this learning, the children experienced a visit from Louise Close, an Education Officer from the Dogs Trust and her rescue dog, Bailey. The Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK. Their mission is to bring about the day when all dogs can enjoy a happy life.
Louise showed how to take care of a dog, like Bailey, in order to keep it happy and healthy. This included finding out about food, water, cleaning, grooming and how to exercise dogs.
The children enjoyed meeting Bailey and giving him lots of strokes. I think Bailey really enjoyed it too!
To visit the dogs trust website, click here.
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Year 1/2
March 12, 2010
World Book Day
Thursday 4th March was World Book Day. The children had lots of fun participating in various activities in and out of school. The day started with the children arriving at school dressed as story characters from well known children's authors. Prizes were awarded to the best costumes in Foundation Stage, KS1 and KS2. Throughout the day, children were involved in book related activities. They had to design a new front cover for a brand new children's book and write a blurb. The winners were: Emma Dickson in Year 2, Casey Bencito in Year 4 and Rhys Prudhoe in Year 5. Activities were also organised out of school. For Years 1 and 2 this involved a trip to Waterstones where they used their £1 vouchers to purchase new books. Year 3 visited the fabulous St Mary's Heritage Centre where they were made puppets to retell Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. Year 4 went on a Beast Quest mission to Pelaw Library where they had lots of fun.
