Well done to our values champion Allan for his perseverance in his work. Is half term Allan hasn’t given up when he’s found things hard and his efforts are visible in all areas of school life.

We have had a very creative last week.

we finished our Easter cards where we had to create a card with a lever or linkage. We linked them to Easter and have gave the, to the local nursing home and local church.

In PE,  we have come to the end of our mindfulness unit where th children have learnt different poses, breathing techniques and meditation relaxation techniques.

Thursday was our Easter service at Holt Trinity Church, well done to all the readers and singers and thank you to all parents, grandparents and carers who walked and came to watch the service.

As part of becoming a dementia friendly school, we dropped off our Easter card at the local nursing home.

For our science unit, we are learning all about the digestive system. Today we made a model of how the digestive system works.

In Re this week, we have been looking at inspirational leaders. We chose Paul Darlington from Holt Trinity Church as an inspirational leader of the church and our school. We then created top trump cards of ourselves as inspirational leaders. Below are a few of our cards.

Thank you for your continued support over the half term and hope you all have a lovely Easter.

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.

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.

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.