Our School Council met this week and we spoke about Ecobricks. Gil said they were, "Ecobricks are Cool!" (big thumbs up) and they all said they wanted to make something out of them. They suggested possibly a seating area, a bench, a table and even went on to say that they could play with the coloured bottoms so that they [...]
Hello and welcome to another Stepping Stones blog post, being sent to you all the way from Never Neverland. Since our last post the plan was to move on from the Peter Pan theme and start exploring Jack and the Beanstalk. However, it appears that Mandy, Harriet and I are far better at channeling our inner Pirates/Crocodiles than we are [...]
It has been a very exciting couple of weeks at Stepping Stones as we have converted both the classroom and the forest area into Never Neverland. Looking at the story of Peter Pan as part of our 'near and far' topic, there hasn't been any time for a dull moment. Pirates, magic pixie dust, ticking crocodiles and mermaid lagoons have [...]
We thought it was slightly ambitious but were pleasantly surprised with the cutting and sticking skills in Class 2 this morning. We cut our rectangles in half from corner to corner which gave us lots of right angled triangles. We then stuck the short edge of these to the circle, making sure we rotated rather than flip, to make sure [...]
It's been so busy at school lately that it's been extremely hard to keep the school blog up to date, so here's a summary of the amazing things that have taken place over the past fortnight, with some galleries of photos spread through the post. Father Christmas and his Elves came to play football with us! National Trust [...]
We hope you'll agree that that was a lovely Coffee Afternoon last week. A great atmosphere with children's own creations of game or stall, all collecting money for Children's Hospice SW. We've also made some decorations for St. George's Christmas tree in the church... We'll see you at Friday's assembly at 2.45, or perhaps 3.15 for pick-up the end of [...]
j Hello and welcome to our Stepping Stones Winter Wonderland. We have it all going on at the moment. As you can see, Christmas is in full swing and we have been hard at work preparing for the festive events that are upon us. Mainly we have been immersed in getting ready for our upcoming nativity which takes place this [...]
"Roll Up! Roll Up! Come and get your 1/2 price... cheap... reduced... FREE, cakes / DVDs / Books / Lollipops!" What a lovely 'Coffee Afternoon' / Christmas Fair - it was like a mini Apprentice! The children designed some great games, thought about the rules for how to play them, came up with some imperative verbs (STAND here, PICK UP the [...]
Teachers Rock started just over five years ago and I only went along to the first rehearsal due to an evening meeting being cancelled. I had already emailed about the excellent choice of songs they were going to do and I found myself being 'encouraged' to do a solo in Reef's 'Place Your Hands' as a result! Devon's Music Advisor, [...]
I set class 4 the challenge of thinking about the dreams they thought Pudsey Bear had for children across the country. We wrote in the style of our poem for this unit of work-I am Cat. Whenever I do an activity like this I am always so impressed by how thoughtful, kind and compassionate the children are in our school. [...]
