QE are exploring the option of becoming an academy from 1st April 2011. This is a copy of the booklet they have produced outlining some of the implications of this change.
We were delighted to welcome our new entrants to Mrs Littlejohn's class today. They have made an excellent start this morning. We're looking forward to getting to know them properly over the next few weeks.
Year 2 enjoyed learning how to make a Christingle and learning about what they mean.
We were really pleased to have our Nativity Service at St Swithuns today. Thank you to all at the church who made it possible.
Friday morning. School currently open, but as snow is still falling it is hard to keep paths clear or to predict what we might need to do later. The road outside school and the path up from the car-park are both slippery so please do be careful.
Kingdom's coaches are not running.
The Buzzards have been working with members of the Sandford Heritage Group to design a 21st century bench end for St.
Swithun’s church.
The groups visited the church together to look at the existing bench ends – most of which are thought to be about 500 years old. They
found that many of them had intricate designs of foliage surrounding many different images of faces – some of them based on the ancient idea of the Green Man – which represents ideas of growth and fertility.
After the church visited the children made their own drawings of the bench ends to start to get some understanding of how they had been designed and made. Then working in groups they all came up with their own ideas of what might be included in a modern day bench end. They thought about all the things that represent our time, and there were many ideas surrounding mobile phones, PSPs, computers, space travel, cars, war, sustainability as well as thoughts about growth, plants and leaves.
The Heritage Group wanted to include ideas from each person, so it was decided to select images from each design, cut them out and scale them up. The Buzzards were then asked to think about the change in scale between their own A4 designs, and the size and shape of an actual life size bench end. Each group of about six people drew up a ‘cartoon’ which is a word that originally meant ‘life size drawing’, and decided how to divide up the space so that they could incorporate as many ideas as possible. They set about making a collage of drawings to convey their ideas about contrasting the contemporary and ancient world. They had to consider ideas of basic design, so that ideas were incorporated in a pleasing way.
Penny Somerville, a local artist, explained that this is the process that an artist goes through in order to design something that is specific to a particular place.
Six life sized designs, or ‘cartoons’ were developed and everyone will be asked to vote to choose the one that they think is best.
We were really proud of our Year 6s who took the starring roles in last week's performances of Panto Pandemonium. They were very well supported by Year 2, 3, 4 and 5 in our orchestra and choir. Well done all of them!
Despite the snow, we plan to stay open today. Please only travel if it is safe to do so, main roads seem clear, roads near school are slippery but currently passable. School car-park is closed.
Please be very careful on the paths into school.
Any volunteers with shovels and energy will be very warmly welcomed!
If the snow keeps falling we may need to consider closing early. We will inform you via the normal contact methods.
We will have a reduced staff today as a number of staff members are unable to get in to school.
Sandford Heritage Group have presented our school with a set of 27 pictures to use as a resource when children are learning about the history of the village.
Further details can be found here.
