193 days ago
Posted on March 15, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Our wonderful week in Hawkstone Class

Our stars of the week are: Niamh for her wonderful English

and Riley for his hard work and perseverance

We received a reply back from David Attenborough, we wrote to him last week about our interest in his program and support for the environment.

We have had such a busy week. Please see the wonderful work we have been up to:

In maths we have been measuring the height of our class in m, cm and mm.

In science, we have been learning about the digestive system. We used our class model to understand the functions of the digestive system and how it all works.

In Re, we have been looking at our world. We then said what a Christian would do and what we would do to help.

Finally, for English, we have been researching whales, we wrote a paragraph about migration from the equator to the North Pole.

199 days ago
Posted on March 9, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Our week in Hawkstone class

Well done to Gurbani who is our star of the week for her maturity everyday and positivity in every lesson.

In science, we looked at our eggs which we placed in different liquids the outcome was shocking.

This is connect club, run by members of Holt Trinity Church, it runs fortnightly in the library. This week the children discussed the old and New Testament.

In English, we have been researching whales and finding out how and what they eat.

In PSHE we have been learning about plastic pollution, this links with our English unit and the whales in the ocean. The children spoke to the kitchen staff about the amount of single use plastic we use. The kitchen are happy to work with us to reduce the amount of plastic we provide. Starting with school trips.

The choir went to the local nursing home to sing their favourite songs, well done all who went it was such a fantastic experience, we will be sending Easter cards to the nursing home in the last week before Easter.

We joined the other schools in St Chad’s academy trust for a collective worship celebrating St Chad’s Day

Well done to all the children for supporting world book day. Each child came home with a book voucher. Here are some pictures of the day.

Picture News this week was also linked to world book day. Well done to Molly for reading the information and Fikayo for reading the prayer.

205 days ago
Posted on March 3, 2024 by Julie Hutson

2nd March is traditionally known as St Chad’s Day

As a school, we will be joining the academy for a live stream of the Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication where we will all come together to celebrate the work and dedication of St Chad. We will join in the lighting of a candle at the academy when the candles will then be lit in the church.

With a particular thanks to Rev Simon, Canon Gregory and Alex Wolvers as well as Sian Bainbridge (Music Lead at Brewood) and the Brewood Academy for hosting and providing us with a Choir.

WHO IS ST CHAD?

If you would like more information on how we have looked at St Chad as a school previously – please see the powerpoint and images below:St Chad’s Worship for St Chad Day

As part of our RE curriculum we researched a number of Saints:

207 days ago
Posted on March 1, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Our week in Hawkstone

what a busy week!

Wee started off the week with a visit from Oswestry fire brigade sharing information about safety at home.

In science, we have been conducting an egg investigate to see which liquid causes the most harm to an egg shell- this is the representation of a tooth and it’s enamel 🦷 Results are in next week!

In french we have been playing Simon says to our newly learnt body parts.

worship this week on Wednesday was all about the lyrics to ‘this is amazing grace’.

We were inspired by our PSHE lesson where we looked at plastic pollution and discussed who was responsible. From this we are monitoring to usage of single use plastic in our school.

On Tuesday we went on our trip to Liverpool, it was such an interesting and informative visit to the different places of worship. The children have been writing reflections.

In athletics, we focused on FAST

F – Face forward – head still

A – Arms pump fast – hip to lip

S – Speedy feet

T – Trunk to be upright

In English, we have been learning about whales, we wrote a letter to David Attenborough sharing our own knowledge and facts and posted these off today – hoping to get a reply to our questions. We also wrote a poem about whales. Below are some example:

208 days ago
Posted on February 29, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Easter Service at Holy Trinity Church

All welcome at our Easter Service.

On Thursday 21st March we will be holding our Easter Service at Holy Trinity Church, Roft Street. This will start at 9:30am and finish at approximately 11:00 am. We invite you to join us and watch the children re-telling the Easter Story. Each class will be singing a song linked Holy Week. Year 3|4 children will be acting during the service with a reading for each day and members of the church will be reading a passage from the Bible and supporting in our prayer.
The choir will be singing ‘ From Now On’ a song most recently performed at Oswestry Music Festival. Tom Barnes our music specialist and choir teacher will also be performing a solo.

Every year we visit Holt Trinity Church for our Harvest, Christmas and Easter services. Please see below for past services.

If you would like to walk to church with your child’s class please contact your class teacher or the office- thank you for your continued support.

213 days ago
Posted on February 24, 2024 by Julie Hutson

First week of Spring 2

Welcome back after half term.

Please check out the Hawkstone Newsletter and Curriculum map to see what we are teaching this half term:

newsletter spring 2 final

curriculum map Hawkstone spring 2 final

The children have returned to school with a positive attitude to their learning.

Our star of the week was Fikayo who joined us after Christmas, she has settled well into Hawkstone class.

In our music unit this half term, we are learning the song ‘Lean on me’ by Bill Withers. For this the children took it in turns to sing the lines of the song.

Please look at our geography posters showing all the things we’ve learnt over the unit.

Well done to Abbi our worship leader who read the school pray out during worship this week.

We have been learning how to reflect on our work, for our art unit, we picked a piece of work we were proud off and a piece of work we could improve and how.

The children really enjoyed their visit to Oswestry Library where they were able to read a selection of books, look for the hidden dragons and create a book mark.

234 days ago
Posted on February 3, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Hawkstone class

This week we have 2 stars of the week- I couldn’t choose one as both girls were amazing !

Liliana – for her increased confident and excellent gymnastics skills.

Valeria – amazing written work and description of Mt Vesuvius, including perfect past tenses, fronted adverbials and senses.

We have been busy this week in all areas of the curriculum. We have now finished our science unit – have a look at some of our posters to show what we have learnt over the unit.

In pe we have been learning the bunny hop and using this to help us onto the high box.

For art this week we read the poem ‘jabberwocky’ be Lewis Caroll and illustrated what we thought the ‘Jabberwocky’ looked like. (Pictures to follow as they were still wet from the paint.)

Thank you for the support for numbers day, winner of the jelly beans will be announced Monday and all money raised goes to NSPCC. Our maths lesson today involved jelly beans and we enjoyed eating them after.

On Tuesday, we will be visiting Oswestry library where the children will listen to stories being read and have a chance to look around.

We said goodbye to Miss Ashford our student teacher today who has been with us for over 8 weeks .

Friday is our last week before half term and have lots of fun activities next week.

240 days ago
Posted on January 28, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Worship Ambassadors

Please meet our Worship Ambassadors. The children help with the daily acts of worship, whether it is the gather, acting out bible stories or send ( prayer). Worship leaders meet weekly to discuss how they can offer hope to others.

Worship is at the heart of the school day, where we have an act of worship every day, this can as a whole school, key stage, class or group. Worship can be lead by the children, adults or members of Holy Trinity Church.

Please see below link for one of our daily worships, which was finished by a prayer from one of our worship leaders

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At the end of each half term, each class will choose a child who has displayed our school motto of hope, we call them our Beacons of Hope. This can be by showing hope for themselves, others or the world.

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Last week the worship leaders took part in CPD with Picture News where they learnt what makes a good worship and how to plan for a worship of their own. This involved a zoom session where the children were able to answer questions, see children in worship and create a worship tailored to them.

NEXT STEPS: to plan and lead their own worship.

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The children were able to monitor and feedback to teachers about in-class worship on a Tuesday. they visited every class across the school and watched the gather, windows, mirrors, doors and send.

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Today we were fortunate enough to visit a number of places of worship as part of our RE curriculum. We visited a mosque, synagogue, church and cathedral. The worship leaders were able to light a candle and say a prayer on behalf of everyone at Holt Trinity.

240 days ago
Posted on January 28, 2024 by Julie Hutson

Our week in Hawkstone class

Our week in Hawkstone Class

Well done to sky who is our star of the week ⭐️

She has shown fantastic perseverance in all areas of the curriculum and the work she has produced she should be super proud of.

we have had a very busy week we’re we have learnt lots of new skills. In pe who have been learning how to avoid being hit by a ball, how to successfully doge a ball.

We also learnt how to successfully teddy bear roll and complete a sequence with a partner.

In art, we had to compose a scene with a story and then draw it. The children were very creative:

*God created the world

* Dinosuars in space

* Animals in Japan

Science this week was all about volume, we tested how far we could hear a sound and if sounds get fainter the further away we move from the sound source.

This week in comprehension we completed an author study of Jeff Kinney, the author and illustrator of Diary of a wimpy kid. The children explored a number of books and read extracts from each text.