Newsletter Issue 3
ferncumbe friday
friday 15th october 2021
HARVEST CELEBRATION
Many thanks to those children and families who helped school lead the Harvest service at Holy Trinity Church last Sunday. We will be celebrating Harvest in school on Thursday 21st October. Children are requested to bring a donation of food to school on the day, which will then be donated to Warwick and Leamington Foodbank. Please see below for ideas of what to bring.
Each class will share via their Class Twitter page how they choose to celebrate, so do keep an eye out!
National Poetry Day
Each class celebrated National Poetry Day by reading, writing or listening to poetry in class on Thursday 7th October. This year’s theme was ‘choice’.
Year 4 looked at the poem ‘Which Wild One?’ by James Carter before thinking about which animal they would choose to be. We had quite a range of choices from dogs and horses, to monkeys and even a platypus!
Here are a couple of our animal poems:
Mischievous Monkeys
Which creature would you be?
Today, I’d choose to be a monkey
We all need space to roam and the gentle warm breeze blowing in your face
Who wouldn’t want that?
No greater space than a great massive jungle
Swinging from vine to vine, leaping from tree to tree
Endless days of play and mischief, gliding to steal fruit
Soaring at the top of the trees
Which animal do you think could possibly be better than a mischievous monkey?
Maia
What would I be?
What would I be? I think I would be a Great White Shark.
I need to roam the ocean, to be the ruler of the ocean
With razor sharp teeth, I am the largest predator on the entire planet
I want to be the red fury killer to the fish
I am as fast as a flash
The Legend of Speed
I want to leap out of my sleekly salt water
grab a beautiful fishing rod with slippery salmon and slimy cod
I want to be the most powerful, the most deadly, the greatest white shark!
Who wouldn’t want to be that?
Jakob
🥮🍥Half Term Ferncumbe Bake Off 🍰🎂
The Friends of Ferncumbe invite you to bake a show stopper for our half term bake off, on the theme of "The Ferncumbe Family".
Please bake and enjoy your showstopper but take a photo before you do! 📸
The Star Baker from each class bubble will be treated to a prize of tea and cake with Mrs Reid to celebrate her birthday! ☕🍰
Please submit one photo of your showstopper (no photos of the bakers) to thefriendsofferncumbe@gmail.com
An entry fee of £2 per masterpiece should be paid to our PayPal account using this link: http://paypal.com/gb/fundraiser/charity/3185505
Please tick the box on the PayPal page to share your name/email with us.
We look forward to receiving entries by 6pm Sunday 31st October.
On your marks, get set...BAKE! 🧁
warwickshire museum’s half-term activities
Details of Warwickshire Museum's exciting half term holiday activities for children and families can be found by following the link: https://heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk/whats/holiday-family-activities
HATTON CLASS
Hatton Class have settled brilliantly over their first half term. They have adapted fantastically to school life, and they approach everything with great enthusiasm! They are a super addition to the Ferncumbe Family, and it has been a pleasure to welcome them and their families.
ROWINGTON CLASS
Rowington’s Science Investigation
Year 3 have enjoyed learning all about shadows as part of our Light Science topic. We conducted an investigation into how shadows are created and how they change size.
SHREWLEY CLASS
Year 4 have enjoyed art this week, where we took inspiration from our topic of Ancient Egypt. We each created our own sunset background and then added the silhouettes of pyramids and other plants or creatures that may be found in the desert sands of Egypt.
Every piece is unique and the children are rightly proud of their work. The paintings are now displayed in our classroom, bringing some welcome warmth and brightness at this time of year!
LOWSONFORD CLASS
Over the last couple of weeks, we have researched information about Lindisfarne (the location of the first Viking raid in England). We have worked in groups and organised this information into paragraphs. We have then drafted, edited and revised the information. This week we have finished presenting this information in a leaflet.
HONILEY CLASS
Over this half term, Year 2 have been to learning to play the ukulele. The children thoroughly enjoy their lessons which have been provided by Warwickshire Music. Each week, the children have been learning to play and sing different songs. Please keep your eyes and ears peeled on our class Twitter page to see how the children are getting on!
HASELEY CLASS
In Year 1, we have been studying a book called ‘The Bog Baby’. We read the story and have grown to love our own Bog Baby. Unfortunately, he went missing so we searched and searched, but we still couldn’t find him. So, we made missing posters and hung them up around the school in the hopes that someone would find and return him. Days went by, and still no sign. Until Tuesday, Tamson came to tell us that she was getting really fed up because adults around school kept sending her email after email with pictures of Bog Baby sightings and it was getting too much. None of the staff were able to catch him, but we did get a better idea of where he had been. Thankfully, on Thursday, he reappeared in our classroom, safe and sound!
With very best wishes for a lovely weekend, and for a wonderful half-term to follow at the end of next week,
Tracey Webb, Head of School