We had a brilliant start to our new half term with a visit from Poppy’s mum, Mrs Hardman!  She told us about her job and all the brilliant sports she gets to teach and showed us some photos of their family visits to the olympics.  We also really enjoyed the video of the Olympics style Sports Day at Mrs Hardman’s school, APHS.  We then got to have a go at playing netball, Mrs Hardman’s hobby.  We used special netball terms – attack and defend, we got to shoot in Poppy’s birthday netball net and we played a game to learn how to do a chest pass.  We even got a special netball water bottle each. Thank you so much for your visit to inspire us, Mrs Hardman. 

As part of our topic, All About Me, Cherry Class were delighted to welcome one of our parents to inspire us with a talk about his job.  Mr Sandwell works far out in the North Sea on an oil rig.  We were fascinated to learn that it takes a day to get to work and three different modes of transport.  We saw a video with huge machinery and we talked a lot about the uses of oil and gas in our homes.  We asked lots of questions too.  Thank you, Mr Sandwell.

This afternoon Reception class went into the Welly Day area for the first time. The children were fantastic at listening carefully at how to keep themselves safe and worked together with care. Mrs Cairns took groups into the bird hide and they tried to spot some of our local wildlife. We realised that we needed more binoculars and so the children wrote a letter to Ms McConnell to ask her for some more – and she said yes!