Charlestown Primary School

Y4 Art- Class Journals At the start of the year, each year group were given a class art journal which goes home with a child each week. Each child is able to contribute towards the journal. Take a peek at Y4's creations!

Year 2 are such wonderful scientists! We completed an investigation to determine how waterproof each supplied material was and recorded our results in a table! We worked brilliantly in our small groups, demonstrating great teamwork, and are looking forward to completing many more investigations this half term.

Our military children from across all Key Stages meet weekly for 'Little Troopers' club with Miss Burnett. This week, we shared these Reading Force packs which encourage family reading at home. The children are keen to start using them and add to their scrapbooks! If your child lives with a parent (or step-parent) who is currently serving or has recently served, please do get in touch via the school office as you may be entitled to Service Pupil Premium funding which is used in school to support military children's Social, Emotional, Mental Health and Well Being. More information can be found at: Reading Force: https://www.readingforce.org.uk/ Service Pupil Premium: Service Pupil Premium: what you need to know - GOV.UK

Woodland Exploring in Year Two

Ofsted Following our recent Ofsted Inspection, we are delighted to share with you that we received a 'Good' judgement in all five areas of the inspection. We are so pleased that during the course of the inspection the team found that 'Pupils enjoy coming to school. They are friendly and polite. Relationships between staff and pupils are warm and respectful. The classroom environment is calm and purposeful.' Please enjoy reading the report, which will be available on our school website very soon and has also been sent to our families via email today. Thank you for your ongoing support.

Year 5 Master Chefs! Last week, Year 5 completed a DT unit - making empanadas. Studying the nutritional value of different ingredients and the source of food, the children designed their own combinations, which they thought would work well. After baking them, the children evaluated their efforts and suggested improvements. Yum!

Year Three ROCK! In Year Three, the children have started their new science topic all about how rocks are formed. They have compared different rocks to see how they can be grouped and they have looked at how igneous rocks are formed. Intrusive igneous rocks are formed from lava cooling down slowly under the earths surface. Extrusive igneous rocks are formed above the earths surface and lava cools down more quickly which creates a porous texture.

EYFS This week we began exploring the Hindu festival of Light...Diwali. We discussed why and how people celebrate Diwali. We have created our own Rangoli patterns in the sand and drawn mehndi patterns onto hands. Some children used the streamers outside to create a firework! In Literacy, we have focused on fireworks. We watched a video of fireworks at the beginning of the week, and we talked about the language we could use to describe the fireworks, putting it into a full sentence. We have drawn our own firework picture in our books and described it to an adult.

Thank you to all of the children who joined us in their different uniforms today for our Remembrance Assembly. It was wonderful to see all the different groups that our children belong to.