Weekly Newsletter - Thursday 22nd January
On Tuesday of this week we had a light snow fall which caused a lot of excitement, though it had it had melted by morning playtime! It has been another busy week across the school and TA Diana and Ocean class are making great progress with their Japanese-inspired wall mural (see photo above). Ross has also begun teaching the children squash for the first time, at Withdean Leisure Centre. Tomorrow our friend Venerable Kassapo will be visiting the school for our morning puja, so please do come along. Venerable Kassapo is an English-born monk in the Tibetan tradition.
This week’s �?junior reporters’ are Archie and Joe, from Lotus class: “We have been making toy lungs because our science topic at the moment is the human body and how it works. We recycled some plastic bottles by making them into toy lungs and a diaphragm. After cutting the bottle in half, we stretched half a balloon over the open end, then put a straw with a balloon on one end through the lid and into the bottle through the neck. It was amazing that when you pulled the �?diaphragm’ outwards it inflated the �?lungs’ inside the bottle which is like the chest of a person. Then when you let go the air went out. Some of us said �?wow’ when this happened because we thought you’d have to blow through the straw. We also learnt about the heart which is like a bike bicycle pump to move blood around the body. As well as science we learnt about democracy as part of our Ancient Greece project. Democracy is when a big group of people decide together what it is best to do. Some of us pretended to be MPs and the rest voted on ideas the MPs had. We have voted to make Chocolate Chip Cookies next week.”