Energy Busters

12th November, 2009

imageYear Six enjoyed their second week of Energy Busters. Last week we found out about sustainable sources of energy, and this week the children carried out a survey of our school site, looking out for places where we could make a few changes. You might have seen them checking out your room before playtime.

With Mr Medland's help, we'll be thinking hard about what our school can do to make a difference - you can look forward to our special Energy Busters assembly on the 3rd of December.

Art Afternoon

8th November, 2009

imageLisa from the Clay Barn came into our school to teach Mr Fisher's class about clay work, including glazing and firing the clay in a kiln. We played some fun running games in teams whilst learning facts about clay work. The children had the chance to use various tools and techniques and glaze clay tiles. When these tiles have been in the kiln they will be returned to our school for the children to keep. A big thank you to Lisa for coming to our school!

Wells Primary Football Champions

6th November, 2009

imageOur school football team played Blenheim Park Primary School on Friday at Wells. Our team won 6-0, with five fantastic goals scored by Lloyd and one by Connor.  Team members Kayleigh, Mark, Matthew, Scott, Abbie, George, Lloyd and Connor all played an excellent game with lots of team spirit. Well done to all players; you played really well! A big thank you to Miss Vincent for organising the event, as well!

Working Together

23rd October, 2009

imageWell done Year Six, who were very helpful when working with the Year 1 and 2 children in the ICT room. They were exceptionally good at rephrasing the questions to make the School Travel Plan Survey easy for the younger children, and even had time to help them with some writing and some Maths games.

imageNewsletter

The October newsletter is available to view here. Don't forgt, you can catch up on important dates on our Google calendar. If you're a Google calendar user, you can add our calendar to your own.

imageParent-Teacher Consultation Evenings

Parents and carers - don't forget to sign up for a slot on the form outside the classroom. Parents evenings are on the 3rd and 4th of November.

The large '+Google' button in the bottom right of our calendar above will add the Wells Primary calendar to your own. If you don't already use Google Calendar, you can easily register by clicking the same button. Google will even email you a daily calendar, if you wish, to help you keep up with our busy schedule.

Crucial Crew

23rd October, 2009

imageYears Five and Six had a great time at Holt where they attended 'Crucial Crew'. Crucial Crew is a joint effort between all sorts of public services including the Coastguard, Fire Service, Police etc.

We found out about Internet Safety, including being very careful how much of your personal information you put online. The potential dangers of the farmyard were covered in a fun quiz with a serious meaning, and we also played a game to help us understand how our journey home from school can be made as safe as possible.

Trading Standards explained about their role and how we can make sure the toys and games we choose are safe to use. We practised what to do if we come across a person who has collapsed, and the Fire Service gave us a very realistic experience of what it would be like to be caught in a bedroom fire. We found out about the dangers of electricity substations, and why we should stay away from power lines, and an actual crashed car helped us to think about the effects of joyriding.

There was a serious message, but the whole afternoon was a lot of fun!

imageInternational Week Challenge Photos

Photographs from International Week are now available on the galleries page.

International Week Open Afternoon

16th October, 2009

imageThank you to everyone who came to our International Week Open Afternoon on Friday. It was wonderful to see so many people finding out about the exciting activities the whole school has enjoyed during the week.

International Week In Germany Class

16th October, 2009

imageDuring International Week Germany Class have been finding out what it would be like to start school in Germany. They found out that children don't start school until they are seven years old. On their first day at school, children are given a Schuletute, a cone containing presents such as pencils and maybe a clock or watch, to prepare them for school. Germany Class made Schuletuten and we very good at explaining to our visitors how to make them on our Open Afternoon.

International Week In France Class

14th October, 2009

imageDuring International week, the children in France class had great fun learning 'head, shoulders, knees and toes' in French. We also tasted some French food, although the strong French brie wasn't popular with everyone!

imageWitajcie! Velkomen! Willkommen! Bienvenue! Benvenuto! Tonga soa!

Six different ways of saying 'Welcome!', because it's International Week at Wells Primary! Do you know which is which - there are versions from Italy, France, Madagascar, Norway, Germany and Poland.

International Week

12th October, 2009

imageIt's International Week at Wells Primary. Find out about our link with the German school St Ida Grundschule or follow Barnaby's adventures with a set of photos from Cuba.

Take the challenge and see if you can match the clothes with the countries on our Clothes From Around The World Quiz, or zoom out on Google Maps to see the United Kingdom, Europe or the whole world!

There are also some special Geography games here

There'll be lots to do during the week, and don't forget to tell everybody about our open afternoon on Friday...

imageYear Six Challenge Photos

The photographs from the 2009 Year Six Challenge are available on the galleries page.

Aquathlon

7th October, 2009

Well done to all the children who competed in the inter schools aquathon at Alderman Peel High school. Our Wells Primary School team included Lloyd, James, Haydn, Abbie, Jessica, Bryony, Joshua.  Special congratulations to Joshua who came in first place in the Year 4 boys age group, Lloyd and James who came 2nd for Year 6 boys and Year 5 boys, and Haydn and Jessica who came 3rd in the Year 5 boys and girls section. Our school came 2nd overall as a team and it was lovely to see great team spirit as all these children were so supportive of each other during the afternoon. Thank you to Miss Vincent for entering our school in the competition.

Biographies Work By Year Six

1st October, 2009

imageEveryone is invited to browse through our Year Six Literacy work on Biographies - every single one of our pieces of work has been carefully written and turned into beautiful webpages by Year Six themselves. Great work, everybody!

Race For Life

1st October, 2009

imageOn the 21st June 2009, Mrs Jennings and Mrs Green completed the Race for Life on behalf of Cancer Research UK.

Between them they raised an amazing £500.00 and are especially grateful to those people from the school community and beyond for their donations which went  to this good cause and would like to take this opportunity to say thank you.

Let It Grow (Again!)

30th September, 2009

imageMay I just remind everybody - that is Mums and Dads, Grannies and Grandads, neighbours and friends - that we are again collecting as many coupons as possible for the Gardening Club. Last year we were able to order an amazing amount of equipment, which the children use regularly when they attend Gardening club. You can see in the item below just how successful our gardening efforts have been, so thank you, everyone who shopped and collected - let's hope we can do even better this year!

A Fantastic Produce Sale

28th September, 2009

imageThe Gardening Club have just enjoyed fantastic success, having sold all their produce.  Thank you to all our loyal customers! Soon Autumn will be upon us, so the club are clearing raised beds tidying up and preparing the ground for garlic and broad beans.

The profit from our two sales will go towards seeds and perhaps some fruit bushes. Look out for autumn raspberries next year!

Year Six Challenge 2009

23rd September, 2009

imageCongratulations to Norway class, almost all of whom rose to the challenge and showed their school spirit and determination. There was no rain this year, and everyone was keen to put their best foot forward, stopping only for a picnic lunch on the dunes before making it back to school well before the end of the day. Well done, everybody!

Vegetable Sale

23rd September, 2009

imageWe are having a sale of autumnal vegetables tomorrow between 3pm and 3:30pm, in the playground outside Mr Speck's class on Friday the 25th September. There will be squashes, pumpkins, carrots and maybe even some purple kale!

Thank you to all of you who are collecting the 'Let's Grow' vouchers from Morrisons. We are hoping to double our growing area by putting in two more raised beds therefore the vouchers will enable the club to GROW evenmore!

Film Club

22nd September, 2009

imageThe first ever Film Club took place last Friday, and everyone enjoyed the enchanting and wonderful story told in the film 'Two Brothers'.

Film Club members will want to log on to www.filmclub.org this Friday, for some follow-up activities.

Maths Challenges

21st September, 2009

imageThe answers to last week's maths challenge are outside your classrooms, and the new week's challenges have been put up: don't forget to have a go!

Here's one to try at home:

Freddy and Frank fry fabulous fish for Friday's famous fish fry. Last month, Freddy and Frank faithfully fried flounder for four Fridays. Altogether, they fried four thousand five hundred and forty-four flounder. How many flounder did Freddy and Frank fry each Friday?

Welcome Back!

7th September, 2009

imageWelcome back to school - we hope you had a wonderfully relaxing summer holiday and have returned to school refreshed and eager to learn.

As usual, there are lots of exciting things planned for the coming year, beginning with our International Week from the 12th to the 16th of October. You can see what's coming up in the calendar, which is always displayed at the top of the website.

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