Year of Reading Challenge set with Whitstone Secondary School
We welcomed Mrs Heaton from Whitstone who launched the National School’s Reading Challenge. This year is the National Year of reading! Children in Year 2-Year 6 will bring home a bookmark to keep track of the books they read between now and the Summer holidays. Once they have read a book, they...
A brilliant performance by St Aldhelm's footballers
St A’s just missed out on a place in the semi-finals at the ESFA County Finals at Strode College. Huge well done to them all and massive thanks to their brilliant coach, Nathan.
Little Lambs love sensory play especially foam, so a foam ‘fire’ tray was built into their play this week. They also made fire helmets to develop their finger muscles and used these in their play too. 💚Belief🔥Aspiration🧑🚒Advocacy💛
Magpie Class have been reading and acting out the important story of Matthew the Tax Collector, reflecting on why God Jesus chose Matthew to be one of his friends. 💚Belief⛪️Advocacy💛
Super PE skills this week with Nightinagles developing their throwing accuracy, Owls developing smooth transitions from high to low shapes in gymnastics and Falcons learning what skills are needed in Handball. 💚Belief🥎🤸Aspiration 💛
We were delighted to welcome the very special poet and children’s author A.F. Harrold to St Aldhelm’s on Thursday. He’d already sent us a postcard with a poem before his arrival. He delighted our classes with his word play (there were giggles and guffaws aplenty) and Kingfisher Cla...
Carrying on from last week’s research on fantasy houses, Falcon Class explored mechanisms and strengthening, practically using a range of materials on offer. They really showed their creativity and their application of previous DT skills and then applied these to new learning. 💚Belief...