Tea with the Bishop!
Nikki Mahadevan
Start Collecting Tubs4Tablets
This autumn Flora and Stork, in partnership with Tesco, are running a scheme called Tubs4Tablets. We need to collect as many tokens as possible, these can be found on promotional 500g tubs of Flora Original, Light and Buttery and Stork in Tesco from the beginning of October.
Hand us your tokens… Just 50 tokens will get our school one brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0” Wi-Fi 8GB tablet.
As a small school we need all the help we can get so spread the word and enlist the help of friends, neighbours, work colleagues and family.
Well Dressing Materials Required
We will be preparing our well dressing throughout next week for the Brackenfield Well Dressings which will be on display over Bank Holiday weekend. We need large quantities of natural items to build up our design which this year is on the theme, “Dig For Victory”. Any dried items can be brought in on Monday but fresh items will need to come in from Tuesday. Check out this weeks newsletter for suggested items or look on our Well Dressing page or at our Well Dressing Gallery for inspiration.
More Chicks Hatch
The Blue Tit chicks in our Colour Birdcam Box caught us on the hop today by hatching earlier than expected. Head over to our Wildlife Blog for the latest news, pictures and video footage. Now that the chicks have hatched, we will try to stream Live video from the box more often.
Eggs for Easter!
An avid watcher of our birdcams has reported seeing 3 or 4 eggs in our Colour Birdcam box this morning. The well of the nest is kept covered with feathers during the day but you might catch a glimpse of any eggs when the roosting Blue Tit leaves the nest at dawn or when returning at night. Let us know if you spot any eggs.
Time for a Leek!
It was lovely and sunny this afternoon so Peregrine Class went outside for a spot of gardening in our Learning Garden. They all worked very hard and managed to prune the Buddleia and rake up the leaves on the herb garden. They also harvested the leeks which they planted at the end of the Summer Term; Sue, the school cook, will be using them for school dinners. Finally, they planted out some garlic bulbs which will also be used in the school kitchen later in the year.
Woolley Weather Goes Live!
We’ve had a weather station running in our Learning Garden for around a year now although we have only been able to upload data to the web site intermittently. Today it was finally hooked up to an old computer which allows us to upload the latest weather information to our Woolley Weather pages every 10 minutes. (A link to Woolley Weather can be found down the right-hand side of our home page.) While short term data is displayed on the web site, full historical data is stored at school.
Wonderful Woodpeckers!
Since adopting the name of ‘Woodpeckers’, the Infants have been creating some fabulous artwork. Last week they painted some Great Spotted Woodpeckers to decorated the entrance to their classroom. During computer class they used Dazzle 03 to produce these fantastic pieces of digital artwork.
Insect Hotel – Materials Wanted
The Wildlife Trust will be visiting the school, on Wednesday 25th September, to work with the children to build an Insect Hotel for our Learning Garden.
The main structure of the hotel will be made from 4 or 5 pallets which need to be of the same size. If you think you can source some, please let us know asap. We have also been given a list of materials which we need to collect before the day:
48 bricks – of the same size.
About 10 stones of roughly same size as bricks or smaller.
Lots of pine cones
Lots of interesting and colourful old/chipped crockery – especially cups, saucers
Old small terracotta pots, can be broken
Large bin liner of Straw
Large bin liner of damp leaves
Small straight -ish sticks – lots
Bamboo canes – lots (at least 30 x 6ft canes)
Old roofing slates (enough to cover a pallet) or roofing felt and tacs
Small stones/decorative gravel – the more interesting the better
Shells
About 10 logs about 8- 10cm diameter and up to 1ft long
Lengths of old piping –of not more than 10cm diameter and cut into 0.5ft lengths, – about 10-12. (The piping and logs need to be able to fit into the sides of the pallets so diameter is dependent on size of pallets). Drainpipe – sections 6”/15cm – is suitable.
Piping of different diameters to fit into larger pipe.
Hazel (or other) coppiced poles.
If you can help with providing some of these materials, please get in touch asap. (In school or by leaving a message on this post)
Each child may also bring in something precious/decorative to put on the top such as unusual natural objects such as feathers, stones, fossils, etc.
Scarecrows and the Woolley Moor Show
Just a reminder that our Woolley Moor Show scarecrow entries, The BFG and SpongeBob Squarepants, are on display outside school this week. The winners will be announced at the Woolley Moor Show this Saturday (17th August).
There are many more competitions for both children and adults to enter, and lots of great attractions taking place on the day.
(Competition entries can be made to Mr J. Ward by telephone, or email by Friday 16th August 9 p.m. Late entries (except for floral art classes) may also be made on Saturday morning between 8 am and 10.45 am on the show ground – check the show leaflet in your child’s reading folder or on the show website.)