Sandiway Primary School Newsletter

Newsletter 20 Wednesday 14th February 2018 Spring Term 2018

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STEM Fortnight Continues… Reception have had a fun-filled

The children have continued to week starting with their Lego
enjoy a wide range of STEM workshop. Their designs were
(Science, Technology, Engineering fantastic and it was amazing to
and Mathematics) activities see the city light up. As part of
provided by class teachers and their literacy focus they have
visitors to school.

Year 1 have been programming

the Beebots to follow a route and
debugging when it didn’t quite go
to plan!

All classes will have enjoyed the made bridges that have to be
Lego workshops by the end of the strong enough for the penguin to
fortnight. There have been lots of cross. They used lollipop sticks
different themes including Egypt, and Blu-tac. Their final challenge
Space and London landmarks. The is to make a boat of their choice,
children have built some fantastic following their own designs. Will
models with such intricate details. they float?
It was wonderful to see 60 Year 1
and Year 2 children in the hall all
fully involved with their Lego STEM fortnight began with the
creations and how quickly and Lego workshop for Year 2 and this
efficiently it was all put away in certainly kick-started their
time for lunch! enthusiasm. Amongst other
activities, they have been
We have had a number of parents designing and testing the
who have given their time to work Ms Hewitt, a local vet, came into suitability of small scale
with the children in class. Thank school to teach Reception and parachutes in Science.
you to everyone who has Year 1 about the role of a vet. The
supported this project, the children enjoyed helping to make As part of their Exploration topic,
children have really enjoyed and Scooby better (he’d swallowed a they continue to investigate Space
benefitted from your professional rubber duck!) and have completed case studies
expertise. of Neil Armstrong and the first
Ms Hewitt also spent time with Lunar Landing and have also
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have Year 4 looking at the well being of learnt about Helen Sharman, the
learnt about keeping clean and animals, the importance of a first British astronaut. They then
the importance of hand washing. healthy diet and teeth. progressed onto designing and
Ms Venables (a nurse) brought in making Moon Buggies which will
an ultra violet light to Year 1 discovered the strongest have working wheels and axels
demonstrate how hard it is to shaped tower was a cylinder. The and if time allows, they will be
wash your hands properly but cylinder was made from thin card adding headlights by including a
how important it is too. and held a weight of 4Kg! working circuit.
Year 3 have enjoyed making Stone ride. They will also be using research an inventor or scientist
Age roundhouse structures out of motors and electrical circuits to and they have been encouraged
cocktail sticks and marshmallows. make their model come to life. to present it in a creative way. The
The structures had to have a base, closing date for the competition is
sides and a roof and be able to Friday 1st March 2018.
withstand some serious shaking!
Mrs Sue Atkinson
Mr Burn supported Year 3 and Science Lead
Year 4 with his engineering skills,
building towers with Thank you to Mrs Atkinson for the
marshmallows and cocktail sticks. organisation of the last two weeks
They were challenged to make the and to the teachers for fitting in
tallest/widest towers. all the science activities as well as
everything else that needs to be
Mrs Ellender worked with Year 3 done in lesson times!
and 4 helping develop their coding Dr Hoyle spoke to Year 6 about
skills. the circulation system and they Half Term Holiday
explored the effect exercise has I hope you have a lovely week
Year 3 and Year 4 have also on the heart. This will be inspiring with your children as we break up
enjoyed learning about careers their next piece of explanation on Friday. The school reopens for
with the environment agency, writing. staff and children on Monday 26th
thanks to Mrs Fleming who came February 2018.
in to school to talk about her job.
Mr Chris Priddey, Headteacher
Mr Campbell spent an exciting
afternoon with Year 5 and Year 6,
showing the children how
Computer Games are designed. All
the children had an opportunity to
work on a design project together,
Mrs Wilson came into school
taking on different roles. You can Dates for your diary…
today to present to the whole
see a write up about this project Upcoming events are highlighted in red
school in assembly and really 16 Feb Break up for the half term holiday
online at
inspired the children talking about 26 Feb Children and staff return to school
https://d3tltd.com/category/what 1 Mar Meeting for parents about the
chemistry. She then spent time
-were-doing/ Ironbridge residential (3.30pm)
during the day with Years 3, 4, 5 7 Mar Meeting for parents about the
and 6. You can see more of her Fox Howl residential (5.30pm)
experiments that can be done at 7-9 Mar Year 5 to The Conway Centre
13 Mar Parent’s Evening
home on her website: 14 Mar Parent’s Evening
http://www.lorellywilson.co.uk 22 Mar PTA Film Night
27 Mar Weaverham High School Music
Festival
We continue to welcome more 29 Mar PTA Easter Egg Hunt
visitors later this week. Mr Hignett Break up for the Easter Holiday
(engineer) and Mrs Bounds 16 Apr Children and staff return to school
This term, Year 5 have worked on 23-25 Apr Year 3 and 4 to Ironbridge
a Design and Technology project (designer). 26-27 Apr Year 2 to Fox Howl
at Weaverham High school, 14-18 May Assessment week for Year 6
Last week I held an assembly 25-27 June Year 6 to London
attending a session each week to 7 July PTA Summer Fair/Family Camping
design and make a fair ground introducing the STEM competition 9 July Weaverham High School transition
ride of their own design. They to the children. They impressed Week
me with their enthusiasm and 20 July Break up for the Summer
have been using their skills of
construction using square section knowledge about this subject and
wood and glue guns to assemble a all the things they had learnt so
framework before adding their far. For the competition the
children have been asked to