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Back in October Reverend Neil set the school a task to design a Christmas card for the Village Churches. Many of our children created fantastic pieces of art to enter the competition. After much deliberation by Reverend Neil and his team, Rain in Year 2 was picked as the winner. His Christmas card design has now been printed onto a card to be sent out to every house in Colsterworth and the surrounding villages. Rain really thought about the colours he was using, how to blend the colours together and what he wanted his Christmas card to look like. An amazing ‘take care’ design and we know all of the families will enjoy receiving their Christmas card this Christmas.
What a fantastic turn out to the Reading Workshops! Year 2 parents/carers were invited to come along to the workshop with their child to complete some reading activities together.
The parents/carers heard all about Year 2 expectations, how to help at home with early readers, developing readers and advanced readers. Miss Bergmann introduced the ‘reading dogs’ which is a tool we use across school to support children with their comprehension skills. We began by comprehending a video called Excitable Edgar, a short piece of poetry and then a longer piece of text about the Isle of Coll, which is linked to our Geography work. Parents/carers and children completed these activities together. We also used a fluency chart to see how children’s pace, smoothness and tone were during reading their banded book. The children thoroughly enjoyed having a grown up in school to do some work together and are looking forward to completing some take care homework together. Each parent/carer received a personalised pack including a reading dogs bookmark, an up to date phonics and common exception word assessment, their first week’s homework and the accompanying rhymes with each RWI sound we learn.
Today our young sports leaders were joined by Tom from Inspire+ and took part in a fantastic training session to develop their skills as young ambassadors of sport within the school.
James, Lillia, Henry and Millie from year 5 & 6 discussed their role within school and thought up new ways to inspire and encourage others to lead healthy, happy and active lifestyles.
They showed off their team work and leadership qualities completing a range of activities and developing a new action plan ready to lead further sports and games at Colsterworth.
Currently our sports leaders are building up active playtimes through a range of games lead daily by year 5 & 6 playground leaders.
They are providing a great example for the rest of the school!In October 2019 our wonderful school undertook a SIAMs Review led by Yvonne Shaw, a School Effectiveness Advisor for The Lincolnshire Diocesan Education Team. This was a ‘health check’ that supports the school’s readiness for a SIAMS inspection. The report is glowing and really celebrates the most amazing journey for Colsterworth CE Primary School since joining Abbey Academies Trust only last September.
We are so very thrilled and proud of all three schools within our Trust who have all been part of this rapid improvement and exciting journey for Colsterworth. Well done and thank you to our wonderful children, staff, parents and carers, trustees and governors – all our Colsterworth school family, for embracing new opportunities.
We will continue to flourish and fly high with enthusiasm and aspiration. You can find a copy of the report in the letters section of the website.
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”
John Wesley
Our children have had an amazing day raising money for Children in Need today. Pudsey and Blush have been spotted in every classroom and the children have enjoyed learning obout why, when and how Children in Need was started.
The whole school took part in the Big Morning Workout with Joe Wicks.
Our older children in Lister had a very fun and informative day learning all about the origins and purposes of Children in Need. Mrs Croxall set us a challenge to produce an article about an aspect of Children in Need and to present it in an original way. We could use film, PowerPoint, Keynote, Clips, PicCollage, make a poster or create a fact sheet. Everyone was impressed by our originality and knowledge! Head over the the Lister Class Page to check out what they have been up to.