The St Andrew's and Sherington Church of England Schools' Partnership

  12 February 2012

  • We feed the birds at the bird table and we feed the voles on the field. The children learn kindness and care from their relationship with the living world and the first signs of spring, halted by the cold weather and snow, only made their efforts more valuable. To see these young learners really concentrate on discriminating a blue tit from its great cousin and to try to predict which of the nest boxes with different size entry holes they will use is to see them develop (hopefully) a lifelong empathy.
     
  • Our new free fruit trees ("Planting free trees - but there's more than free, there's eight of them Mr Storey!") needed to be planted through a crust of snow but were none the worse for that. We thank the UK Tree Council for their generous grant. Similarly we thank the woodland trust for a pack of saplings to enlarge 'Percy's Wood'. This included a Jubilee Oak raised from an acorn collected from the Royal Estates.
     
    • Teddy Bears in History
  • Work inside our classrooms continued with equal fervour as Key Stage 1 said goodbye to Miss Edmonds who successfully completed her teaching practice with us. The topic of 'Toys old and new' was given a boost with some precious older teddies brought to school for study. Our Reception group made friends with our mini programmable toys; the 'Bee-bots'. They planned and programmed routes for the bots to follow, counted and learned to turn left or right and then programmed each other in the playground to follow the same. Much fun and learning.
    CS
Playing robotsEnjoying the snow

  25 January 2012

  • Everybody returned from the Christmas break rested and ready to resume work and play with friends. We welcome students Miss Lora Edmonds and Jaymie-Leigh Herbst into our school family; both engaged in school placement experiences leading from their universities.
     
  • The Reception class extended their study of families to looking at their family trees and then considered the story of the Chinese New Year. In this project they enjoyed the struggle between the animals to name the year, cooked a simple stir-fry accompanied by jasmine-flower tea and learned about customs and practices of Chinese people around the world. Each child took home a hand-made money envelope (XX, hongbao) with a newly minted gold chocolate coin inside.
     
  • In Key Stage 1 the Year 1 & 2 children began their Creative Partnership Project "Every child has a story." Phase One began with work inspired by illustrator and literacy expert Mrs Liz Sharpe and the children started to investigate characters through drawings of their own and from looking at the work well-known children's authors such as Quentin Blake, Eric Carle and Michael Foreman. Using a range of art techniques the children adopted or invented characters to visualise and to begin making the subject of their own stories. Illustrator and Literacy Consultant Liz Sharp commented "The children at Sherington School are enthusiastic, confident and articulate learners. I have learned so much already working with them and look forward to our next workshop." CS
A busy workshopA busy workshop

 

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