Starfish have settled back well to term 3 and are busy learning about rivers! We have written descriptions about the journey of a river, using sensory and figurative language. 

We enjoyed a Magical Garden wellbeing workshop last week, led by Jacqui Cameron, exploring her book ‘My Magical Garden’. We all imagined what our garden looked like in a guided wellbeing session. This gives us a place we can go to in our imagination if we are feeling anxious or upset.

You may have heard the children talking about the glue-ister?! In order to take care of the glue sticks we use in class, we have a set of glue helpers - complete with woolly hats! So we have Sticky Sue, Gluewis, Tacky Tony, Adhesive Annie, Gummy Gabriel, Clingy Carl, Fixative Fred, Gloopy Gill, Pastey Pete, Ellie Epoxy, Bondy Brian, Fusing Faith, Sealant Sam, Fastening Faye, Anchoring Alan and Gunky Grace! Since we’ve included this idea into our class and have been taking a daily register (glue-ister), we’ve not lost a glue stick or lid - thank you glue gang, we really appreciate you.

 

As a school, we have launched Westie Walkers, where we note down those who are able to walk, scooter or bike to school. This compliments the eco and sustainability approach to our school. Our school councillor has been taking numbers each day and these are submitted to a whole school count!

We love to read…in Starfish we have seen an increase in the number of pupils who are regularly reading - well done. Keep up the good work as it earns us dojos and helps us to go up the ‘reading ladder’. In Class we are reading ‘The Mountain of Adventure’ in our Reading sessions and our book for pleasure is ‘How to Train Your Parents’. We have a selection of books to enjoy in class and others which can be taken home to read. Our school library also has a vast selection of fiction and non-fiction books and comics, which can be borrowed by the pupils.

We are keen for the children to keep up the work they are doing on Times Table Rock Stars - this is great for improving their skills and lots of fun too. Starfish won Mr Colbran’s January challenge - great stuff guys!

 

In music this week, we played along with glockenspiels and tried to accompany the first song we have learnt, called ‘Bind Us Together’. Everyone participated well and followed the notes they needed to play.