Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Lizzie Simmonds Assembly

  Fri 27 Nov 2020 Louise Jordan
  Lizzie Simmonds, Olympic Swimmer, joined the children of Colsterworth today to share her story of developing her love of sport into an Olympic dream. As part of this she discussed with the children the importance of confidence in our lives and how to try to overcome set-backs. 

  

• Wellbeing Wednesday - Be Active!

  Wed 25 Nov 2020 Louise Jordan
  This week Wellbeing Wednesday has focused on being active!

  

• Year 4 Golden Book

  Mon 23 Nov 2020
  Well done to our fabulous year 4 Golden Book children this week.

  

• World Children's Day and OutRight 2020/21

  Fri 20 Nov 2020

  Our collective worship today focussed on World Children's Day. Our UNICEF Ambassadors introduced OutRight 2020/21. 

   

  OutRight is a youth campaign run by Unicef UK that helps children and young people to speak out about children’s rights in the UK and abroad.

  It’s a campaign by children, for children.

   

  This year, OutRight is all about climate change and children's rights. 

   

  We will find out how climate change is impacting children’s rights, including:

  •the right to education

  •the right to be healthy

  •the right to have somewhere
  safe to live

   

   

  

• Wellbeing Wednesday - The Launch

  Wed 18 Nov 2020 Louise Jordan

  This term at Colsterworth has seen the launch of our focus on Mental Health & Wellbeing for both pupils and staff. The children excitedly arrived in school one ordinary Wednesday to find labelled balloons hidden around the corridors and classrooms…this surprise start to the day signalled the beginning of our work on the 5 ways to Wellbeing. Our newly designated Wellbeing Warriors within Key stage 2 have been vital in encouraging all children to take part in different challenges to improve their Mental Health & Wellbeing. Video messages from Mrs Cornish & the Wellbeing team are shown each Wednesday introducing a new challenge from one of the 5 areas. This focus links well to our new #Healthy, Happy, Active initiative, with our Sports Council leading the way to improving all our lifestyles through curriculum linked challenges. Look out for your child returning home with their challenge certificates any day now to demonstrate how they are making an IMPACT!

  

• Children in Need

  Fri 13 Nov 2020

  Colsterworth once again put the fun into fundraising for Children in Need by dressing in our comfiest clothes (our pajamas)! Student Council had decided that snuggly was the way forward and it allowed some of us to wear Pudsey onsies and everyone joined in to raise a fantastic £118.10. The Student Council had set a target of £100 so were delighted that we reached this sum with generous donations.

  In each class bubble the children decided what they would like to do that was active; some began by watching Joe Wicks complete his 24 hour marathon exercise challenge; some of us joined the Strictly stars with a dance routine workshop. We loved joining in!  We then spent time thinking about what Children in Need did for children around the country and at this difficult time really understood the importance of pulling together as a nation community.

  Children in Need supports the core values that we believe in as a UNICEF Rights Respecting School. Articles 7 and 9 are about supporting children to live with their family and Children in Need supports families in order to keep them together. Article 23 states that children with disabilities should be cared for and enabled to reach their full potential. Article 6 tells us that all children have the right to be the best that they can be. Our children love to be agents of change, raising money to support Children in Need, in the hope that this will enable other, less fortunate children to access their rights as well.

  Well done to everyone for taking part. Thank you.

  

• Sneak Peek into the Life of the Romans

  Fri 13 Nov 2020

  4T have had an incredibly exciting few weeks preparing for their amazing class assembly. Although it wont be on the website for another few weeks, here are a few sneak peak pictures. We cannot wait to share the assembly with you.

  

• 2B's fabulous learning

  Fri 06 Nov 2020

  We had a very exciting English lesson where we were training to become sentence doctors! As well as editing and improving sentences with our teachers, we completed some independent activities. These were: learning our sounds on Teach Monster to Read on the iPads; making alien names using special friends and writing common exception words using glitter and paintbrushes! 

   

  Rose completed a fantastic piece of take care homework where she completed a timeline of events about herself. We are also going to use this to help us with our science learning later on in the year. Well done Rose! 

  

• Walk like an Egyptian!

  Thu 05 Nov 2020

  In 3H we had a fantastic day today being transported back to Ancient Egypt. We arrived at school to be met by a strange message on the classroom door. We then had to crawl through a corridor into a darkened room. It smelled strange but sweet and there were strange artefacts and a body (mummy) in the corner. The pharaoh Rameses had sent us a challenge to escape being locked into his burial chamber. We were nervous at first because we didn't know what we had to do. We were given some jobs that Ancient Egyptians would have done like servants, scribes, pyramid builders and craftspeople. We worked hard writing hieroglyphic messages and creating jewelled,  symmetrical collars for the pharaoh. We were very successful at these. We also had tricky jobs like putting together canopic jars for mummification and building pyramids out of spaghetti and marshmallows, model designs for the real thing. These were fiddly and challenging but we persevered and worked as a team. 

  We had great fun and learned lots about their lives. But we are glad that we did not get trapped in the past. We pleased Rameses and he released us back to the present day- ready in time for lunch!