Team R:
This week, Year R had an exciting time learning all about Guy Fawkes Night! We talked about how to stay safe around fireworks — holding sparklers carefully, keeping a safe distance, and always staying with our adults. Even though it was raining, we put on our coats and headed out onto the field for a fun, messy art activity! Inspired by Jackson Pollock, we splattered colourful paint onto big pieces of fabric to make amazing artwork for Team Ash and Team Oak. It was so much fun celebrating safely and creatively — our bright splashes looked just like fireworks in the night sky!
Team 1 / 2:
Our talented Year 2 children led the whole school in a joyful and heartwarming Harvest Service. With proud voices and smiling faces, they shared poems, readings, and even performed a special harvest drama that reminded us all of the importance of thankfulness and community.
The service began with a lively welcome from our Year 2 hosts, who spoke confidently to a packed church of our school communities. Their enthusiasm set the perfect tone for the celebration ahead!
The children shared a selection of beautiful harvest poems, bible readings and a Harvest Drama, each one celebrating Harvest and reminding us about creation, nature’s gifts—from golden wheat fields to crunchy apples and freshly baked bread.
Throughout the week, families donated generously to our Harvest Collection, which will be shared with our local food bank. Seeing the children understand and take pride in helping others was a wonderful reminder of the true meaning of harvest. A big thank you for all of these offerings, Southampton City Mission are very grateful for the donations.
We are so proud of every single Year 2 pupil for their confidence, effort, and teamwork. Leading the Harvest Service is a big responsibility, and they rose to the challenge beautifully.
Team 3 / 4:
Year 3/4 have been breathing fire into their writing lessons as they created their very own imaginative dragon poems.
Each child chose a unique dragon, from shimmering ice dragons to fierce fire-breathers and even gentle forest guardians. They worked incredibly hard to bring their dragons to life using a wide range of figurative language, including similes, personification, and alliteration.
The results were truly magical, with poems that captured everything from a dragon’s fiery roar to its quiet, thoughtful moments. They described their dragons’ personalities, movements, and even how encountering these magnificent creatures might make them feel.
To complete their work, every pupil created a stunning illustration of their dragon, carefully designed to complement their poem, a true celebration of creativity and imagination.
We are extremely proud of the dedication, effort, and enthusiasm that every child has shown. Well done, Year 3/4, your dragon poems are legendary!
Team 5 / 6:
Year 5/6 have been continuing their guided reading sessions based on the book Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman. This humbling story of a family’s bid to survive in war-torn Afghanistan and their eventual move is full of tension, as well as comedic moments to lighten the mood. Children have been learning the skill of summarising by ‘blacking out’ the parts of the chapter that they don’t need, so that they are left with five or six main points or significant events that summarise the important action and emotion in the chapter. The children are really engaged in finding out more about the football-mad main character, Jamal, and his risk-taking younger sister, Bibi.
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