Whole School


World Book Day Characters

Lots of the staff in school have been dressing up this week as part of our World Book Day celebrations.  Can you work out who we are?

Let us know who you think we are when you return to school on Monday and don’t forget to send us your photographs for our display in the hall too!


Cupcake Delights!

Well, after all that running we deserved a sweet treat challenge, hence our wonderful cupcake entries, everyone different and very gorgeous.

Mrs Mason will again be highlighting her favourites this week and for those who participate in any of our foodie challenges (providing photographic evidence of course), there will be a special treat awaiting for you on your return to school on 8th March.

It isn’t too late to get involved – we have ‘pizza designing’ next week, so get stuck in and be part of this ‘cook and share’ fun!

Pictures for you to drool over are attached…….


Pancake Challenge!

Well, everyone certainly got totally involved in the challenge set over the holidays to the extent that we have given our adjudicator a headache trying to determine her very favourites. Does she opt for flipping skills, artistic design, novelty, or just the ones that make mouths water…..we will need to see.

Either way there will be a certificate of achievement for all budding cooks and look out for a new cooking challenge to take us to our return to school very soon.

Photos of genuine scrumminess are included for your delight!


Chinese New Year in EYFS

Our children in EYFS enjoyed learning all about Chinese New Year before the half term holiday. We had some amazing creations from fortune cookies to lanterns, to junk model dragons and everything in between! We also learnt how to say ‘hello’ in Chinese, found out about the origin of the Chinese New Year story and had a go at writing our name using the Chinese alphabet.


Running Challenge Smashed!

Congratulations to everyone for superb attitude, determination and being prepared to brave the cold, snow and ice in the final week of the official challenge!

Everyone seems to have enjoyed it enormously, there is a wonderful display in the foyer of all your pictures for you to celebrate when you return to school, which we hope is very soon.

This week we had superheroes in the mix, spot them if you can.

Medals are on order for the fabulous ‘Team Levens’ – keep running!


Look at our New Shelter!

Just look at our stunning new shelter that has been installed this week.

Complete with a canopy to protect us against all the elements; a seating area for an entire class; and some large planters to add some spring colour, this is a fantastic new enhancement to our playground space.

This new installation has been purchased through funds raised by everyone in our school community and our annual sports funding premium. Thank you to everyone involved with FOLS over the last few years, whether it be to help organise or attend various fundraising events.

We look forward to the grand opening very soon!


Rockets!

 

 

As part of our Design Technology, Year 1 have planned, designed, built and then evaluated their own rockets! We thought about the parts of a rocket and what materials these could be made from. Our Science work on Everyday Materials helped us decide which materials we could use. We designed and labelled our rockets. We planned which materials and tools we needed, put this information into a table and then had great fun building them! The results were some fabulous, original rocket designs. Finally, we evaluated the process and any challenges we faced.

 


Year 1 Catch up with Miss Eastham via Teams

Last week, year 1 enjoyed a lovely opportunity to catch up with Miss Eastham and their friends during their first live meeting. The meeting went very well and children had the opportunity to show and talk about some of their work or something they had made. We had Lego creations, craft activities, maths work and even some cooking! We then played a game of Hangman. All children were very sensible and grown up during the call; very well done everybody and we will meet again soon!