Fairthorne Manor

Here are a few photos of Year 3 children working as a team, conquering their fears, trying new things, solving problems and overcoming challenges. They were an absolute pleasure to accompany and did themselves proud!

Willow's Class Assembly.

All the children of Willow class should be very proud of themselves for performing such a brilliant assembly yesterday morning.

This term the children have been learning all about Africa and were excited to show their friends and family all that they have learned.

First of all the children entertained their audience by acting out an African fable which highlighted the importance of sharing. The assembly also included a traditional African song, a video of the class's virtual African adventure and readings of letters that the children had written.

Thank you to parents and friends for coming to watch this performance.

Y3-The Easter Story reflected through Art.

Year 3 have been looking at the Easter Story and reflecting on the suffering of Jesus. We thought not only about the physical suffering but also the emotional suffering. We also reflected on what suffering meant to us and how we are affected by suffering. We decided to try to show the emotional turmoil suffering entails and the suffering of Jesus on the cross in a piece of abstract art. Take a look:-

Just Peachy

In preparation for our new topic next term we have been reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.

The children created art work by collaging a peach, sketching James and using water colours to show Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. Come and look at our role play area where their art work will be displayed.

Tough Term for Year 6

Year 6 children have had a tough Spring term. They have been exceptionally busy, working hard on their English and Maths. They have even completed their Mock SATs week with a smile. So this week, as well as finishing off some bits of work, they have been taking it a bit easier.

They have completed in the Southampton Sumdog maths competition, had an extra PE lesson with Mr Crook from TMC and even tried their hands (or brains) at Sodukus.

City Hockey Champions!

It has been less than a week since the Oakwood Tag-Rugby team were crowned City Champions and they have already been outdone!

The school Hockey team, today after school, were also crowned City Champions.

The A team were top of the table going into the final two fixtures and ensured they finished with a perfect record, beating the Oakwood B team 4-0 and Springhill B team 5-0.

The B team were in 3rd place before today's matches, an even though they lost both games, 4-0 to the Oakwood A team, and 1-0 to Springhill A, we think they still managed to finish the league in 3rd place.

A big well done to all 15 players. And a special thank you to Mr Martin who came as our extra adult on the minibus each week.

Smoothie making in Year 1.

As part of our topic, Year 1 have explored different fruits. First of all, the children had a tasting session where they discussed how tropical fruits tasted, what they looked like and how they smelt.

After this, in groups the children designed their very own smoothie choosing which ingredients to include.

Working as a group, the children chopped and prepared the food before putting it into a blender. They then tasted and evaluated their smoothies.

Year 1's African Adventure

This half term, Year 1 have been comparing their local area with Kenya in Africa. They have made comparisons between the different countries including the houses, animals, food, schools, climate and seasons.

The children were very excited when they had the opportunity to go on a virtual African adventure to immerse themselves in African culture. They had the chance to find different animals through their binoculars on safari, hear the various noises that the animals make, see a traditional African dance and even play some African drums.

Once they had returned, the children wrote letters to friends and family telling them all about their amazing adventure.

Local Walk Year 1

This term Year 1 have explored their local area with a walk around Sandpiper Road.

The children made observations about the environment as part of their Geography work and took note of what they saw. They found out what material the houses are made from, the type of houses around our school and the plants and flowers that are growing near by.

We were very lucky with the weather, as it was a beautiful Spring day.

Thank you to our Year 1 mums who came with us on our walk.

Year 2 Spring cake decorating

This week we have been learning about Easter and spring time, and what it means to us. Today the children in year 2 enjoyed a lovely afternoon decorating a cake with a bumblebee laying on some grass with flowers, with the help of a parent who is a professional baker.

They were shown how to decorate cakes with buttercream, chocolate and icing to create different spring themed cakes.

Thank you to Josh's mum and Jane who came in and delivered a fun, tasty lesson!