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We were very lucky to have Chris Connaughton visit us again yesterday. As well as telling stories he was showing and teaching the children how to tell their own stories. We are concentrating on oracy as a school and this day helped the children understand not only how to make up their own stories but to retell them clearly and with expression. Children need to be be articulate and this will in turn improve their writing. It was a fun and very engaging day.

This week local artist Sasha Constable visited our school as part of a bird project that we are doing. We have been learning about swallows, swifts and housemartins and there migration patterns. We have put bird boxes up around the school and hope that we may be able to see some of these bird make nests in school. The children enjoyed making bird mobiles with Sasha using cardboard and string.

Today has been busy in our school. The last two weeks have been Walk to School Week and today we met at Simsay Fields and we all walked to school altogether. Then later today the Giants went to visit the Care Home and sang songs, rhymes and read stories with the people that live there. It was a lovely experience. At lunchtime Abbey Class went to church had had a Lent lunch with the community. We then sang them a song to say thank you for the delicious soup that we had. Just another fun day at our school :-)