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As part of our learning about seasonal changes and our environment, we have been finding out how it is harder for animals to find food when the weather is cold and frosty. We made bird feeders using pine cones, lard and bird seed. Then we hung them outside in our garden.
This term in Haughmond we are going to be basing much of our learning around our History and Geography theme of holidays. To focus our learning further, we are going to think about two key questions. In Geography we will think about ‘Where Shall we go on Holiday?’ and in History we will find out ‘What Were Holidays Like in the Past?’
Below is a link to our termly topic overview, with further details of our History and Geography along with details of other areas of learning.
Hi everyone! I am proud to publish my Newshound Club’s first issue of their school newspaper – The Bomere Beagle.
A dedicated group of Year 5 and 6 pupils have been working hard to explore and write news stories about our school. They will publish the newspaper every few weeks throughout the year.
We hope you enjoy reading it and if you have a story for them, please let us know!
Mr Field
Today we are launching our ‘Reading Challenge’ and this time we have linked your child’s reading to several journeys around the world.
It’s not that easy to travel at the moment but we are thinking about people all over the world. Why not read your way around the world with the Reading Miles Global Challenge.
Collect 500 reading miles for every 30 minutes you spend reading, with a parent, carer, or your brother or sister. You could even video call your relatives and read aloud to them. You just need a signature, amount of time read and time you read at. Collect reading miles in a special reading passport on your very own reading world tour – a whopping 33,000 miles in total! Reading counts between 8am and 7pm.
The challenge is split into seven journeys, each of which finishes in a ‘checkpoint city’.
The following resources are available to download and print off to enable you to take part in the challenge.
• A wall map of the world charting the Reading Miles Global Challenge route
• A passport to record the reading
• A certificate for when you complete the challenge
• Postcards which you can complete when you reach checkpoint cities.
• All children that complete the each journey challenge will have their names entered into the draw to win the reading challenge box of goodies. Complete all 7 journeys and you will have 7 entries, so a much better chance of winning.
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The passport will be kept in school and updated by the class teacher.
We hope you will enjoy and support us with this reading challenge.
Kind regards,
Mrs Sallie Roberts – Deputy Headteacher
Today, Firefighter Rob from Shrewsbury Fire Station came to visit us in Haughmond to talk about his job as part of our topic ‘Fire, Fire’. Rob talked to us about how to stay safe around fires and what to do if we ever discover a fire as well as the importance of checking our smoke alarms at home on a regular basis.
Rob talked about how to dial 999 and he has challenged us all to learn our address with our grown ups at home, including our postcode, as this is really important information. He also talked to us about the other things he does as part of his job, including rescuing people from floods and cats from trees!
Rob also showed us some of his equipment and his fire-fighting clothes. We couldn’t believe that he only has 90 seconds from when the alarm goes in the fire station to get his gear on and be in the fire engine! Mrs Gregory set us a challenge to see if we can get dressed and ready for school in just 90 seconds!
Today, to mark the end of our learning about The Great Fire of London, we built our own city with the houses that we designed and made in DT. We made sure that the houses were close together, just like they were in London in 1666, and we put our own St. Paul’s in the middle of the ‘city’. Then, Kris set our city on fire! It was very exciting! We watched how the flames travelled from house to house, and finally to our cathedral in the middle. It was very dramatic when it finally collapsed!
On Friday we visited Aston Hall in Birmingham as part of our learning about fire this term. We explored the house and took part in a workshop all about the Great Fire of London. We dressed up as some of the important people from the story, including Thomas Farriner and Samuel Pepys. We also learnt to write with a quill, in the same way that Pepys would have written in his diary. We had a great time!
Today we have been making the frames for the houses that we are going to use to make a replica London street from 1666. We measured the wood and then cut it to the right lengths. We sanded the ends down and explored different ways to join the wood and make the best frames. Next week we will finish the houses ready to burn them down in our own Great Fire!
As you may know, Clubs commenced this week!
After a hiatus due to the pandemic, we are so pleased to start up our fantastic clubs again! The staff are delighted to welcome pupils after school and at lunch times to their respective clubs.
Please be assured that we are taking additional precautions such as extra cleaning, adults wearing face masks and keeping pupils from different classes separate during the club. We will continually review this.
Clubs we are running: netball, newshounds, colour and chat, felt, cross-stitch, choir, music, Young Voices, book club….and more!
If you wish your child to participate, please enquire in the school office!
In Science we have been looking at our local habitats. We explore the wooded area on the school field and recorded what we found in our wildlife notebooks.
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Bomere Heath CE Primary School
The Crescent,
Bomere Heath,
Shrewsbury,
SY4 3PQ
Tel: 01939 290359
Executive Headteacher: Mrs Julie Ball
Office Manager: Maria Whittaker
