Squirrels Heath Junior School

 This morning, Year 6 had a special visit from the theatre company with a fantastic and interactive show of Romeo & Juliet.  We were transported to Verona to watch the famous Shakespearean love story.  Year 6 have been studying Romeo and Juliet this half term and so this has been a great way to consolidate our learning!

 Over the past couple of weeks, Year 5 have been looking at Toatie patterns in Art. We started by researching the ancient form of art, before using clay and plaster to mould our own Toatie designs. Here is us in action!

 We have started to explore types of rocks in preparation for our new spring topic “Rocks Relics and Rumbles” and the children were superb researching and investigating the different rocks to identify their features!

This week in Assembly we learned about the Christingle. We had the opportunity to explore how to make them in class and learned about the different components. A Christingle is a symbol of Christianity and is made from an orange and dried fruit. The orange represents the world. The red ribbon represents the love and blood of Christ. The sweets and dried fruits symbolise all of God’s creations and the lit candle represents Jesus’ light in the world. We had a wonderful time! 

 Last week, we ran our first inter-year TTRS contest! Each class played against the other classes in their year group.  It was great to see so many children get involved and practice their times tables along the way! We can assure you the teachers were just as competitive as the children! The winners were: Year 6 - Pine Class Year 5 - Elm Class Year 4 - Birch Class Year 3 - Palm Class Each child in the winning class was awarded a special pencil for their win! A special shout out to Christian F in 6 Pine scored 34000 points and answered the most questions correctly in the whole school!   Well done to all the winning classes.  We will be running another contest next term so stay tuned!

 The netball team did an amazing job today and are through to the quarter finals!  They won both games with no goals conceded. We are so proud of our Squirrels! Onwards and upwards children!

 This week, we have been making salads in Year 6.  Some of us made fruit salads and others made savoury salads! We have had great fun and we hope you have enjoyed tasting the salads!