We have been exploring hedgehogs in Forest School this term. We have discovered that hedgehogs are nocturnal and why they have spikes on their back. In our first session, we enjoyed using natural materials to create our own hedgehog sculptures. We are looking forward to finding out how we can help to care for these wonderful animals.
This week, EYFS explored the Hindu festival Diwali – the Festival of Lights. We discovered why the celebration is important to Hindu’s, how they prepare for the festival and what you might see during Diwali. We found out that they spring clean their homes in preparation, they exchange gifts and share family meals, they watch firework displays and they light up their homes to invite the Goddess Lakshmi. We enjoyed creating our own diva lamps that we decorated with our special adults at home.
This week, EYFS explored the Hindu festival Diwali – the Festival of Lights. We discovered why the celebration is important to Hindu’s, how they prepare for the festival and what you might see during Diwali. We found out that they spring clean their homes in preparation, they exchange gifts and share family meals, they watch firework displays and they light up their homes to invite the Goddess Lakshmi. We enjoyed creating our own diva lamps that we decorated with our special adults at home.
EYFS were very proud to have a special visitor this week. We have been learning all about Remembrance Day and its importance, and we had lots of questions we wanted to ask a soldier if we ever met one. We were very excited to meet Anthony, who answered all of our questions including why we wear poppies and why he has special medals. It was wonderful to put all of our learning into a real life context. We paid our respect to soldiers like Anthony, and all of their families, by completing a 2 minute silence on Friday 11th November.
Classes from Valley View, attended the Remembrance Day Ceremony at Monkton Cenotaph.
Members of the student council presented a wreath, on behalf of the school and displayed some art work, that the chilkdren had produced to show their respect.
Thank you so much to our wonderful school community for the amazing food donations.
The student council organised the food and we took it to Hebburn Helps to be distributed to families in need.
Today our children welcomed Ms Comerford, founder of Hebburn Helps, to speak in our school assembly. Ms Comerford thanked the children for choosing Hebburn Helps to receive all of the recent Harvest Festival donations.
Ms Comerford told the children all about the people that Hebburn Helps support. Demonstrating great citizenship the children have decided to launch an appeal to collect blankets and hot water bottles to be given to the elderly people in our community to keep them warm this winter.
Our marvelous student council representatives will lead this appeal in school.
Well done everyone!
Throughout the year, EYFS will be taking part in three ‘Exploration Sessions’ to support our understanding of the world around us and our local community. We will be supporting our knowledge of our local area with first hand experiences, noticing the features of our environment as we go.
This autumn term, our first Exploration Session was called ‘The Journey to Forest School’. We were very excited to go on our first adventure and explore our school grounds! We travelled through the red door, walked next to our outdoor area, over the big bridge, through the wild willow den, around the statue, across the path and we marched past the bushes to arrive at the huge gate!
Reception used their knowledge of their journey to Forest School to create their own maps of our immediate area.
School council welcomed parents/ carers and members of our community into school today to raise money for Macmillan.
The student councillors organised the cake donations, set up the stalls and worked hard serving our guests, supported by our wonderful parent champion volunteers.
Thank you to everyone who supported this amazing charity event.
We are proud to launch our pre-loved uniform, available free to collect from Primrose CA.
Massive thank you to our Valley View community, parents/carers for donationg the clothes, our amazing CA for hosting the uniform and to our outstanding parent champions for sorting through the uniform and creating this fabulous pre loved uniform rail.
Please come and stock up with spare uniform today!
