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

• What a wonderful story!

  Thu 07 Mar 2019

  Swashbuckling pirates, gangster grannies, Alice, Peter Rabbit and many more exciting book characters came together to celebrate World Book Day. We accepted Paddington Bear's challenge to create some beautiful bunting depicting food from our favourite stories and held a book sale in the library.

   

   

  

• Giving thanks on Shrove Tuesday

  Tue 05 Mar 2019 Rev. Neil

  It was lovely to be able to share cakes with the children, parents, carers and teachers, after school on Shrove Tuesday. As Christians we believe everything we have is a gift from God and we are called to give thanks. At the beginning of Lent we are offering cake to help us to give thanks to God for all that we have received and to encourage each other to be generous too.

  

• Shrove Tuesday and Lent Collective Worship

  Tue 05 Mar 2019

  Our children came together on Tuesday morning for a wonderfully inclusive Collective Worship exploring the meaning of Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) and Lent.

   

  This is an important time of year for Christians. it reminds them of when Jesus was in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights without food. It was an important time and place for Jesus as he prepared for his work of healing and teaching. It was important that he was somewhere on his own, so that he could focus on God, with no distractions.

   

  Lent is not only about giving things up. A different way of looking at it is to take somehting up for Lent. It may be a good time to 'turn over a new leaf' - a bit like the pancakes we flipped, we all have the chance to show a new side to us!

   

  Dear God,

  Thank you that during Lent we can think more about you and focus on you.

  We pray that you will help us with the positive things we choose to do this Lent.

  We pray also for all those in the world who have no power, no money, no food or have lost their way in life.

  Amen

  

• Golden Book Award Winners

  Mon 04 Mar 2019
  Our Golden Book award winners this week - Monday 4th March 2019. Well done all of you.

  

• We have the Colsterworth WOW Factor!!!

  Fri 01 Mar 2019

  Our Key Stage 2 choir (with a few Year 2s for good measure), wowed the adjudicators at the Colsterworth Festival of Performing Arts last Friday winning not only the Choral Cup for the second year running but also the Vanilla Cup for our fabulous ukulele club. To top off the day we came home with the Growler Shield for best overall performance of the day: an honour which we have not had since 2008.

   

  The children were amazing and sang their hearts out showing great emotion and enthusiasm which moved both the audience and adjudicator.

   

  The adjudicator said " The children all really believed in the music. A very powerful and moving performance!"

   

  

• Nightingale 'Take Care' Homework

  Wed 27 Feb 2019

  Some children in Nightingale have been very busy at home making Tudor houses as part of their homework for this term’s topic London’s Burning, Fetch the Engines! Amazing efforts!

  

• Slimetastic!

  Fri 15 Feb 2019

  Wow! What an amazing day of fun we have had! Our Key Stage 2 children enjoyed a day of science experiments, sherbet and slime making with the incredible David from 'Sublime Science.'

   

  All of our children enjoyed getting sticky with our slime making workshops and discovered some amazing facts about the world of science. 

  

• London's Burning, Fetch the Engines!

  Thu 14 Feb 2019

  What a brilliant way to end our fantastic topic of ‘London’s Burning, Fetch the Engines!’ showcasing our class assembly to parents and carers. We re-told the story of the Great Fire through TV programmes. We started with The Apprentice where two contestants gave their business plans to Lord Sugar. This was based around how London was in 1666. Next, we tuned into The Great British Bake Off where Thomas Farriner accidentally left his oven alight! After that, the fire dancers in Britain’s Got Talent blew us away with their dancing skills. Simon Cowell said he loved it! There was an episode of The Chase where they did the starter questions all about The Great Fire of London. And finally, we finished with Grand Designs where Christopher Wren had made plans to re-build London with brick and stone. The children in Nightingale gave an incredible performance with acting, singing and narrating abilities. Well done!

  

• Our 3Rs Champion this week!

  Fri 08 Feb 2019
  Well done to Oliver in Year 3 for being our 3Rs Champion this week. An amazing effort. 

  

• You Came, You Saw, They Conquered!

  Thu 07 Feb 2019

  Fabulous Faraday lived up to their name with a celebration of all things Roman in their ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’ class assembly. Using their fantastic acting, singing and costumes, the pupils in Year 4 and 5 were able to share all their exciting, cross-curricular learning on this topic with a delighted audience of parents, carers, grandparents, governors and Mrs Moore. Everyone agreed this class assembly had the Colsterworth WOW Factor!!!!