Nikki Mahadevan We hope you enjoyed your half term break and had the opportunity to visit the well dressings and flower festival at Brackenfield. The children did a fantastic job designing this year’s board which depicted various computer games. How many can you spot?
For further information about how well dressings are made for photographs of our past well dressings, please visit our well dressing pages.
Our climbing wall mural has been looking rather tired for a while, so we asked Pete Barber, Graffitti Artist to visit again to work with the children to design and paint a new mural. This activity was funded through our Awards For All Lottery grant. We’re sure you’ll agree it looks great.
You may have seen some of Peter Barber’s work in Chesterfield which includes the “Girl with the Roses” mural on the the bridge supports near the cafe in Queen’s Park. It is based on the story of a little girl who sneakily picked one of her father’s roses and was made to pose for a statue as punishment. The statue can be seen in the glass conservatory which is also in Queen’s Park.
Thank you Mr Marriot for carrying out our annual bird box clear out. Our colour birdcam will be streaming live video this weekend.
A Blue tit is currently roosting in the box and may also visit during the day.
Just a few notes to draw you attention to a few items on the website that you may not have seen.
As well as news items on this page, you can also see photos of some of the children’s food topic work and activities on the ‘Food Glorious Food’ page.
One of our birdcam box cameras has been left on over the holidays, head over to our wildlife blog to find out if anything has been seen! The Peregrines on Derby Cathedral laid their first egg yesterday (28th March). The female lays her eggs about two days apart and typically lays a clutch of four. Keep an eye out on the Peregrine webcams over the coming week and see how many you can spot.
Junior children, don’t forget that you can still try out Purple Mash over the holidays as well as improving your typing skills on Typing Club (use the same login details as Education City).
KS2 had a fantastic visit to ‘Chocolate by Design‘ in Chesterfield. We arrived to be led through the small shop, on Packers Row, past the most delicious looking chocolates. More was to follow to tickle our senses. The aromas of chocolate greeted us as we descended the stairs into the cellars where all the handmade chocolates are made. Derek gave us a short talk about the origins of chocolate and how it is made, all the time quizzing the children to make sure they were listening. Sometimes chocolate bribes were used!
The best was to follow when we moved into the chocolate making room. We made chocolate mobile phones, fish, a massive egg and had a ‘decorating chocolate lolly’ competition. Of course we had to taste everything and we may just have got a little chocolate on ourselves!
Easter service and Easter Egg Hunt
Easter scene competition
KS2 and Infant trips to Tesco extra, Clay Cross
During the ‘Food, Glorious Food’ topic KS2 children have been learning about a balanced diet as part of a healthy lifestyle, finding out about teeth and digestion and reading and writing stories and poems about food, teeth and eating.
They have also been learning about some artists who make food sculptures and paintings and then having a go themselves as part of their creative homework.
Bread tasting
Designing a new chocolate bar for Mr Willy Wonka
