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

• Wake Up Wednesday - Parent Guide to Cyber Resilience at Home

  Wed 25 Jan 2023

  National Online Safety - Parent Guide to Cyber Resilience at Home

  

• Colsterworth Kindness Competition Success!

  Thu 19 Jan 2023

  Year 6 pupil Eden has won a nationwide competition to help spread kindness.  As part of the school’s Kindness Club, pupils were challenged to design their own inspirational T-shirt to promote messages of positivity. Kindness charity, 52 Lives, picked Eden’s winning design of ‘Bee-Live in yourself’ and transformed her vision into a reality creating T-shirts for all of her class.

  The eye catching design features a personal message that is written in reverse so only the wearer can read it when looking in a mirror.  Eden and her fellow year 6 Kindness Club members were delighted to receive matching purple t-shirts, proudly displaying their friend’s message.

  “The reaction to these amazing T-shirts was fabulous, the children couldn’t hide their smiles and the buzz quickly spread around the school, showing the power kindness can have,” commented Kindness Club leader Mrs Cornish.

  

• Wake Up Wednesday - Parents Guide to Twitter

  Wed 18 Jan 2023

  National Online Safety - Parents Guide to Twitter

  

• Our Golden Book Children this week

  Mon 16 Jan 2023

  Well done to all of you.

  

• Wake Up Wednesday - Guide to World of Warcraft

  Wed 11 Jan 2023

  National Online Safety - Guide to World of Warcraft

  

• An Amazon Adventure!

  Tue 10 Jan 2023

  Today the Y6s went to the Rainforest! Explorer Simon, from the Explorer Academy, came in to tell us about the amazing animals, peculiar plants and industrious people of the Amazon. We immersed ourselves in fantastic learning and have expanded our vocabulary and knowledge, which will help with our current Science and Geography topic, An Amazon Adventure.

  We learnt about the incredible adaptations, animals have made in order to survive and we imagined an original creature that is yet to be discovered, as we found out that a new species is discovered about every three days. Maybe only a tiny new insect,  but as 85-90% of insect life is found in the rainforest, this is possible! All the children were enthusiastic and engaged today; they showed Simon how nature smart they were when we had an impassioned debate about the causes and effects of deforestation and impressed how the tribes of the Amazon don’t have the need for technology and the modern world trappings to live well. 

  

• In 1666, London burnt like rotten sticks………..

  Tue 10 Jan 2023

  Today, the Partake Theatre Company took the Goldfinch children on an epic journey back to the Great Fire of London of 1666.

  This interactive workshop brought history alive for the children who enjoyed being involved in this exciting and stimulating drama workshop by dressing in elaborate costumes and telling the story through narration, mime, chant, music and dance.

  During the workshop the children encountered the following historical figures: King Charles II, his baker, Thomas Farynor and not forgetting Samuel Pepys.

  Step by step the children retold the events from that infamous week with a sprinkle of awe and wonder.

  Wow moments, were certainly plentiful! Highlights included: the mischievous rat dance, the horse parade and not forgetting the epic fire dance.

  Last of all we could breathe a sigh of relief when the raging fire gradually began to disappear.

  The children had a fantastic time with Mr Adby, and the Partake Theatre workshop which has definitely given our London’s Burning – Fetch the Engine topic the WOW! Factor and a tremendous start to our new history learning.

  

• Our Golden Book children this week

  Mon 09 Jan 2023

  Well done everyone.

  

• Dinosaur Day

  Mon 09 Jan 2023

  Our stupendous start to our new topic started before the children even stepped into the class.  Chicks were surprised to walk through the gate to huge footprints leading across the playground and then towards our classroom.  Where did the footprints come from?  What creature had made them? Was that creature still in our class? 

  We watched a film of a dinosaur walking (and roaring) around our class  and then found some very icy eggs.  We used our Connie Colsterworth scientific skills to investigate how we could help our eggs crack and then melt!  What super scientists we were.  Inside our eggs were baby dinosaurs.  We put them in our Dinosaur Museum to look at after we had paid for our entrance tickets and used the map to find where they were.  Once in the museum we could also ‘role play’ being palaeontologists and carefully find dinosaur skeletons.

  Our 5 dinosaur eggs supported our mathematics using a 5 frame to create our own number bonds.

  Chicks showed amazing enthusiasm for their learning and during the afternoon created their own fossils using clay.

  To lead on to our next learning opportunities we found out that fossils were discovered under the snow and ice in the Antarctic by Captain Scott which leads us on nicely to our Poles Apart learning!