RP visit the Trimtrail at Starbank Road site
RP had a lovely time on the trimtrail at Starbank Road site!
Some of the children were at little nervous to begin with, but they soon got the hang of it!
Enjoying the Sun in the EYFS Garden!
The children in Reception at Bierton Road had a fun-packed day as they got to enjoy the sunny weather in the garden! Staff have recently re-designed many of the areas in the garden and lots of new resources have been added. There was so much fun and excitement as the children had the opportunity to explore and develop all areas of their learning.
We can’t wait to continue our learning in the garden over the next couple of months!
Rocket Radio – Hob Moor Road Year 3 & Year 4 – Story Books Special – LIVE
The Year 3 and Year 4 classes from Hob Moor Road brought the second live show of the day, and completed the radio experience at the end of the spring term. It was a grand finalé just before we finished for the Easter holidays! Enjoy this amazing show from classes 3R, 3W, 4M and 4D as they bring you reports, scripts, adverts, music, and quizzes from their favourite stories. Enjoy listening by clicking below: –
Rocket Radio – Starbank Rd Year 3 & Year 4 – Story Books and Mummies Show – LIVE
Year 3 and Year 4 brought a stylish end to the term with their live shows on the final day before breaking up for Easter. Listen to this fantastic show from classes 3A, 3M, 4P, and 4B, LIVE from the radio studio at Starbank Road. All the best features from some of your favourite story books, a trip to Ancient Egypt, and some brilliant new music, there’s plenty to keep you entertained! Listen below: –
Hob Moor Road Arts Council Meeting
During today’s Arts Council meeting at Hob Moor Road site, we began to create a logo for the Hippodrome’s HEN network, which Starbank are part of!
Our designs have to be in the shape of an ‘H’ and must represent the Arts at Starbank School.
The deadline for councillors to complete the designs is Wednesday 28th March.
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Juggling Jim visits Reception at Starbank Road
Last week, the Reception children were treated to a special performance from the fabulous Juggling Jim!
First, Juggling Jim performed a hilarious show displaying all of his circus tricks. He showed us how to juggle scarves, ride a unicycle and even let us and the teachers play the Pieface game!
Afterwards we were all shown how to perform some of his circus tricks during a workshop in the hall. We had a go at balancing on pedal-goes with our friends, which are much harder than they look! Then we tried spinning plates which were lots of fun.
A huge thank you to Juggling Jim for his time. We all had a wonderful afternoon!
Science Week in Hob Moor Road Reception
This week was Science Week and the whole of the school was set a challenge to spend the week completing various ‘enquiry based Science investigations’.
In Hob Moor Road Reception, we took this challenge very seriously and throughout the week we carried out LOADS of enquiry based Science investigations in our indoor and outdoor learning environment.
Our Science activities included:
- ‘The dancing skeleton’ which was an exploration into magnets
- ‘Rainbow carnations’ which was an experiment involving dying flowers with food colouring
- ‘See your bones’ which involved shining torches onto our hands to try and see our bones
- ‘Plastic cup telephones’ which involved making our own telephones to see how sound travelled
- ‘Water chimes’ which was an investigation into sound
- ‘Make a skeleton’ which was a team effort to create a papier mache skeleton so we could investigate the body and material changes at the same time
- ‘Can you make it disappear?’ which was a dissolving experiment in the water tray
- ‘Bubble fun’ where we tried to make our own bubbles, testing a number of variables
- ‘The mysterious apple’ which is an on going investigation as we observe changes which happen to apple chunks when they are left in various liquids
- ‘Bumpy paintings’ where we added different materials to our paint to see how it changed the texture of the paint
- ‘Grow your own potatoes’ which is another on going investigation into planting and growing
The Reception children had a fabulous week and will continue to observe the changes and developments of our on going investigations!
Science is linked to the Reception curriculum through the ‘Early Learning Goal’ of ‘Understanding The World’.
The end of year target is:
Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Juggling Jim Visits Reception at Bierton Road
The children in Reception were treated to a special visit from Juggling Jim! He wowed us all with his hilarious show full of magic and circus tricks – he even got the teachers involved in some messy fun! We were very lucky to spend time with Jim learning how to ride pedal-goes, catch flying bean bags and spin plates! It was so much fun!
We can’t wait to practise our newfound circus skills more over the next couple of weeks!
Juggling Jim visits Hob Moor Road Reception
The Reception children had a fantastic morning with Juggling Jim.
The morning started with an amazing circus skills performance where Juggling Jim made us laugh with his funny circus skills. He juggled scarfs, rode on a unicycle and even used a pie face game! We all laughed so much!
Following the performance, Juggling Jim led some circus skills workshops where he taught us how to spin plates, ride pedal-goes and even flick beanbags off a kick board!
Following the performance and workshops, the Reception children made thank you cards for Juggling Jim and some children even painted his portrait!
It was a fabulous morning!
