Christmas LUNCH!

Yr's foundation & 6 partenered up for the first of the dinners, then secondly Yr's 1 & 5 and last but not least Yr's 2, 3 & 4!   

The ladygrove school dinner menu:

Main course:
Turkey

Stuffing

Potatoes
Peas 
Carrots
sausages
Desert:
chocolate mini people and ice cream.

YUMMY! Hope you liked the Christmas Dinner ( if you had it ) !!!

Year 1s Christmas Play

year 1 put on a play about the birth of Jeusus everyone thought they looked soooooooooo cute!!!!! they had loads of songs year 1s teachers were playing the flute and Mr.burrows was playing the guitar.Here are some photos of the year 1s play.

WINTER WONDERLAND?

This week in school theres finaly been snow!!!!!!!People attempted to make snowmen, but sadly there wasn't  very much!About 90% of children were unsucessful with the snowmen!
Everyone had so much fun in the snow trying to throw snowballs , there was even people eating the snow (YUK!).We all hope for more snow!!!Merry Christmas Everyone!

Foundation get Festive!!!!

On Friday 3rd December
Foundation children decorated the school's christmas tree beautifully. The deep green tree was covered with santa's, snowmen, ballballs, stars, santa's sleigh's, mini presents and an angel at the top! They looked sooo cute placing the colourful decorations on the tree.I hope everyone enjoys the wonderfully decorated tree.

Eurovision!

Year 6 put on a great show with their Eurovision Song Contest.They sang to Mamma mia, Hit me baby one more time and Waterloo.Everyone was laughing when the year 6s made a fool of themselfs when they dressed up in bright outifs and had out of tune singing.I-shout won with Connor, Harry, Josh and Daniel in their group.Go Eurovision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

year 5 school trip to the living rainforest!!!

year 5 went on a school trip on Tuesday 16th November . they went on coach but some people fell asleep on the way there.  they was all singing songs the driver told them off  for singing to loud. when they  got there they were shown to the main hall and introduced to a lady called Mell. She told them the rules what we can do and can`t do in the living rainforest and at the end of the day they got to go to the gift shop they bought all diffrent kinds of things then they went home.

Chill Out Zone Is Open

 Remember the Chill Out Zone even in this chilly weather is open , please remember to use it if you need some time to chill out .You can play board games,chat with friends and take time out to relax! JUST  HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ladygrove Christmas Fair

Today (26.11.10), 3:30-5:30pm there will be a christmas fair in the school hall. There will be lots of crafts stalls where you can paint pottery ,make cards,decorate cookies,candycane reindeer making and lots of YUMMY mince pies! Please come along and have FUN! Have a great time.   

PJ party

Years 6,4 and 3 had a pyjama party!!!!!!!!!!!! .
We dressed up in pyjamas and had a party ......................after  break we choose a film and wached it whilst snuggling up in dressing gowns,blankets,cusions and sleeping bags.After lunch we are going to have some popcorn yummmmm yummmmm.Here are some photos of the fun we had:

We had this fun because the school had filled our school trees with leaves we earnt for being good and the hole school got golden time.

Year 5's Golden Time PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because the school had filled the reward trees for being well behaved, happy, hard working, caring, safe, healthy year 5 had PIZZA for lunch today, with loads of diffrent toppings including cheese, tomato sauce, mushrooms, pinnaple, and many more! Here are some of the photos:

RAINFOREST IN YEAR 5

This term year 5 are learning about the rainforest.They had a blank sheet and they made prints of   leaves on card board and printed them on the sheet. Then they put it on the class room ceileing and then it looked like a real rainforest.  Here is the finished result.

Year 6 takeover the heads

Today the 12th of November was the 1st of the Take over days, year sixs have been taking over the roles of staff in the school.One of the jobs was to take over the role of Mr Burrows and Mrs Li Koo, we had to go to a class that was being taken over by a year 6 and anwer these questions :

What is the learning objective?
What are the children doing?
Are they working hard?
Are they well behaved?
What are the adults doing?

Then we took a group of three out and asked them these questions:
What did you learn?
Was the work too hard/too easy /just right?
What did you enjoy about this lesson

We then took three books and saw if they had thees things:

presentation-is the work neat and well organised?
marking - has it been marked by the teacher?
AFL-Has there been the opportunity for self/peer evaluation?(eg traffic lights)
Quality- is the work good enough?(give examples of good work) 

and then we had to type them up in a word document.

zia jain princaple Xiong

This week principal Xiong has visited our school. We exchanged gifts and chinese experts did an assembly on stuff they learned at a china school in surrey.They learned numbers,morning exersices,songs,ti chi,phrases,what their names were in chinese and food eg.yo(fish),hanboaboa(hamburger) and caffa(coffee).

Kids Take over day

Today of all days. Yes today was year 6 's take over day, thats right we ruled the SCHOOL!!!!!!!
The year 6's taught all the years below them. They went down and up the school teaching the young ones. Some kids did art with year 3 some did math, ICT, wiggle and giggle and other stuff. The year 6 kids are having lots of fun and some are teaching the blog club to the year 5's.

The End

By Rory and Louie

School Bottles

One of the treasures from the school council had an idea for school water bottles they are clear with the ladygrove logo on them, also they are non leak.Here is what they would look like.

The school council are going to come in playtime asking if you would buy one and if you would how much would you pay.

WOO! HOO! WHOLE SCHOOL GOLDEN TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

It's whole school golden time which means it's time to PPPPPAAAAARRRRRTTTTTYYYYY!!!!!

It will be on the 19.11.10 so this will be for everyone not just for inderpendent classes, to succeed to this have to fill in these trees.

The letter says"Congradulation the whole school has won the reward of Golden he 19th November,make sure you talk to your teachers about doing something special,well done for being caring,well behaved,happy and hard working!!!!!!!!

welcome to the chillout zone

The chillout zone has now got a big banner out side the coutyard, it has all the coulors of the rainbow  and it even has a rule banner that tells you what to do and what not to do. The chillout zone is a place to chill-ax after a bad arguement or if you just fell like relaxing.

Takeover day

On Fiday the 12th November year 6 will be taking over the day. Some will be a teaher (mostly class 15) and other jobs such as Mr Burrows and Mrs Li koo,The office ladys,The ladys in the kitchen,The lunchtime supervisers and sally.

Expect  a year six to come into your class and teach you something ordinary or something wacky.

We had great fun making are resourses using smart-board,slide shows and lolly pop sticks. Lolly pop sticks are when the teacher writes the names of everyone in the class and picks out a stick that way  no one knows whos going to get picked and everyone has to think of the answer.

Because quite a lot of us are teaching here is a plan



We are your teachers the next 40 minutes I am Miss Turner and I am Miss Charles.



We would like to be respected and treated how you treat your teacher.


We are willing to give out 4 orange leaves ,4…..points, if you all work hard we will give you 2 class points.


Use IWF to teach no’s 1-5 by saying and repeating then pairs on IWF THEN use the games and intro 6.If time teach 6-10 then greetings on IWF.Tell them what they are doing whilst child hands out books. 20ish mins to do work. Take out cards when drawn.



V-Board partner talk – Learn numbers on board – pick name out of hat – Child comes up and press dice – Children discuss what number they think it is


AK- Discuss what we have learnt-Words on the board slide 6 take of cover and children shout out or discus what it is.


K- Chinese number game on I.W.F – Role dice find number say it put in grid against teacher - Play game at end if time

swimming sensations

Every Thursday morning  untill Thursday 21st October the didcot wave have kindly let year 6's have swimming lessons (although we had to pay!). We had a great time and to add to that the last lesson was a fun session and the wave machine came on! All year 6's have a certificate showing the distance that they swam.

Penpals

This week in year 6 we have been writing to our new Chinese penpals at our Chinese partner school, Dong Hui School in Changsha,China.We have each written our letter to say hello, introduce ourselves and share what our hobbies are. On November 8th this year their headteacher will come to visit our school because  our deputy head went to visit two years ago to set up the partnership.We will be giving an assembly to their head.

Book Week!

This week has been book week.We have been looking at poems as it was national poem day on Thursday. We had a peotry competition and the winners read their poems out in assembly.
The book fair has come to the school with books to swap and buy from the actual book fair.

Chill out zone

After reading the feedback from the questionnaires the school council voted for the most popular answers, they decided on a outside chill out zone as their first priority.

The first idea was a house but here was what was wrong with it :
Queues
Angry people
Too small

The second idea was a tent but as you guessed these are the things that went wrong with it:
Barracades
Not big enough
Not Waterproof

And the last idea was the courtyard but these are the things that are good about it:
Big
Lots of space
Cover
Seating and tables
Quiet
Already made

So we settled on the courtyard .We'll need to buy some outdoor cushions and design some brightly coloured banners.This idea was thought by chair and vice chair after a council meeting.

lego mindstorm (featuring Jeff & Cheryl.)

Last week we made a lego robot called Jeff and the robot Cheryl is being made so far more robots will be made over the next few weeks here's a little clip of Cheryl moving.

One of Jeff's favourite things to do was killing Bernard the crash test lego man.

Cheryl's best friend is WILL.I.AM ( I expect you can see where this is going.)

Jeff enjoys playing with his fav blue ball to play footy and hockey but sadly Jeff is dead

                   R.I.P Jeff

Germany in year 2

They have been very busy tasting German food such as sausages, black bread, gerkins{not very popular!},cake, crisps and potato salad.They have also been learning a song.

Hola!

Hola everybody SPAIN! Hello, year one today have been learning culture and life style of Spain. Also have been learning spanish.

Hello from Portugal!

In year 4 today their country is Portugal. They have been making and tasting custard tarts, and learning a bit of portuguese and greet each other in portuguese.

Ciao!

Today Year 3 have been exploring Italy and learning a bit of Italian.They are also making pizzas yum yum!

European Day of Languages Year 5

Today was European day of languages. We have been celebrating different countries and their languages in the different year groups. Year 5 have been finding out about Greece, they have been tasting different Greek foods such as olives and goats cheese.They made a language poster and a Greek cartoon myth.

Guten Tag!

Today is European Day of Languages.
Year 6 is doing Austria.  We've been making Apple strudel today. We are wearing red and white colours representing the flag of Austria.

Year 6 at the Clumps

For year 6 topic Through The Door we went to Wittenham Clumps with Ms Grimes to build shelters and make a fire.We started off by getting twigs for the fire. We then watched Ms Grimes make and light it. It was BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We got into groups and started discussing our ideas and collecting our materials.We used lots of different techniques including the slashing method where you wrap string around sticks and make them secure. Once we had finished our shelters we roasted marshmallows and drank hot chocolate in our dens. Here are some of the photosof some finished dens and treats that we had:

Judo Olympic Athlete

At Ladygrove we're going to meet an Olympic Judo Athlete on day 29th  September 2010 DAVID LOGAN!!!!!He will be taking us children into the hall to do a charity event. Also giving us a chance to throw him to the floor? Look out for more news of this event here!

Breaking news every week!!!!!!!!!

We will be giving you our new updates of whats been going on at Ladygrove, such as new school councillors and bringing back heathy eating.
So check  back ever Friday for exciting news!
Bye!

My New Language

Ni Hao!
During the summer we were lucky enougth to meet new friends we also had the opportunity learn Mandarin.
We met many chinese friends they were incredibly kind , they gave us loads of chinese gifts the friends names were Brian and harry there were many more.We had great fun playing International football first match 61-1 to us next match 4-2 to china.

Us  playng a tai-chi game.

Ni Hao LPPS

Every day after lunch we were split into 2 groups and did 2 diffrent activities.  Here are the days and what we did:
Monday-Shadow puppets and Tai Chi
Tuesday-Chinese Music and Fan Making
Wednesday-Lion Dancing and Mask Making
Thursday-Shao Lin Boxing and T-shirt Designing

Three instructors from a Chinese College came and shared their skills with us and taught us lots about fantastic chinese culture!

Chinese Summer School 2010 @ Frensham Heights

A group of us Year 5s (now Year 6s!) were lucky enough to be picked to go to a Chinese Summer School for a week during the summer holidays. Only 50 children across the UK were chosen to go and Ladygrove were lucky enough to send 9 children to Frensham Heights thanks to the British Council and HSBC funding. Frensham Heights is a posh girls boarding school in Surrey with loads of amazing facilities like a swimming pool, tennis courts, massive grounds, a performance theatre, a gym which we got to use.

Every morning we woke up early to have a massive breakfast before we started our morning exercise all together in the ballroom.  Then we did our language lessons with specialised Chinese teachers.  We learnt things like greetings, numbers, pets, food, colours and lots more through songs, games, conversations and repetition.  It was enjoyable and not too tiring although sometimes it was hard to get up in the mornings!

At the end of the week we got to show off our Chinese language skills in a performance to our parents and families in the fabulous school theatre.