What a performance!

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Putting Christmas back in its box.

Over the past two days we have been busy taking down our Christmas decorations and dismantling our very loved Christmas tree. This year we decided not to take down our decorations in an end of term haste, before driving to catch a ferry…as we normally do! We instead, wanted to make the most of all of the real life experiences your children had over their Christmas holidays. All of the anticipated fun had been experienced and presents had been opened and we wanted to make the most of any quality talk opportunities. Your children’s memories of their Christmas holidays were at the forefront of their minds. The conversations had while taking down the Christmas tree and placing the baubles back in their box were fantastic.

Trying to take down the star from the top of the tree made for an excellent problem solving activity, as did unravelling the silver ball string!

Archie declared, when all the decorations were put away…’’Wow, it’s all ready for next years otters now isn’t it. They are so lucky!’’

A Little Bird Told Me....

A huge thank you to all parents and au pairs, for your involvement and creative help with our Christmas performance. I think you will agree that it went brilliantly. The children are so proud of their beautiful costumes and scenery. They made all the difference to our Christmas play and provided a stunning backdrop to act against. We are very proud of your children and their hard work learning lines and speaking in clear, loud voices. Thank you again…

Miss Sullivan, Mrs Lewis, Mrs Gent and Mrs Moran.

A sneaky peek...

We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning at 9:30am. Otto and Basil are guarding the stage- we hope they don’t eat the robin!

St Andrew's Day

Today was St Andrew’s day. Rowan, Malindi and Tully came dressed in their own national dress…plus a very big and very furry Highland cow hat! During snack time we talked about the girls’ kilts and why they were dressed differently today. Rowan bought in some Scottish themed tea towels which we enjoyed looking at this morning. Mrs Gent surprised us all after lunch by turning up with her own traditional tartan on!

She told us all that she is from Scotland too just like the girls. Mrs Gent spoke to us about Scotland and we were all laughing at the funny Scottish words she taught us. Especially the Scottish word for ‘little’! Hearing about the Loch Ness Monster made us all creep closer and closer to Mrs Gent as we were hanging onto her every word. We asked some very interesting questions….does the Loch Ness Monster eat haggis?

We were all very excited about what we had learned and spent the afternoon looking through atlases to find Scotland and drawing pictures of Scottish mountains. We remembered that Mrs Gent said heather covered the mountains and that at a certain time of the year it was purple. There was definitely a purple theme running through our artwork this afternoon.

Mrs Gent told us about the special sword dance that Scottish boys learn…we didn’t have any swords so light sabers had to do! Lots of us danced the sword dance with Mrs Gent. It was very tricky, we had to jump over the ‘swords’ and turn around.

Mrs Gent also taught us the Scottish national anthem. We were all mesmerised as she sang ‘Flower of Scotland’ to us and many of us were to found humming it as the afternoon went on.

What a fabulous afternoon in Otter’s class.

Thank you for your continuing support

FS2 Stay and Play

Wow what a turn out!

Thank you to all of the parents…and au pairs who made it to this morning’s Christmas Play themed Stay and Play.

We hope you have got the glitter out of your hair and paint off your clothes. We are thrilled with the fabulous costumes, scenery and props made by you all and can’t wait to decorate the stage ready for our Christmas Extravaganza! We must say a big thank you to Mrs Luke and Jake for their efforts with the backdrop…Mrs Gent feels that you would have made excellent Blue Peter Presenters. We especially like the little frog!

Our cupboards are now filled with an array of wings, beaks, sheep, angels, stars, shepherds and camel humps. The birds, stars and Bethlehem paintings will really make the difference on our stage.

The children feel very proud that they have been involved in the whole process of putting on a show. Next week they will be creating posters to put up in the entrance to hall.

Before…

…After

And then there was a sailing otter....

Thanks to Thomas' Mum Otter class now have a song to rival the foxes.

http://youtu.be/uhN9eLsn4gw

It is very catchy and has been stuck in Miss Sullivan's head all day.