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Year 2 Newsletter Term 6

Posted by Mrs C Mann at Monday, June 12, 2017

School Closed Monday 11th December

We hope you have been enjoying the snow today. School will be closed on Monday 11th December due to the conditions on the roads and pavements. We will let parents know if school will reopen on Tuesday. Teachers have provided some things for children to complete on their day out of school.
Please bring them into school when we return. We always try to stay open but we have to take into account how safe the site is and whether staff can get safely to school and back.

Children in Need - Strictly Dance-a-thon

I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our Children in Need event a big success!
It was wonderful to see all the children enjoying themselves but moreso, seeing them support their fellow friends and peers as they took to the floor.
Nursery, FS and Year 1 were amazing - I loved the Time Warp from Nursery!
We raised £400!
Simon Driver

'First Lego League' Robotics competition January 11th 2019

Congratulations to the team of budding engineers and space scientists who went to the tournament at Winchester Science Centre on Friday. The 'Intergalactic Space Nuggets' competed against 18 teams and were the only primary school team - the competition is open to teams of up to 10 students aged 9 to 16. They had to take part in 4 main areas: Robot design, Research, Team work (Core Values) and using their robot to complete various tasks. The team had a fantastic day, with time to explore all the hands on science exhibits and watch a planetarium show, as well as showing off all their skills and knowledge.
This years theme was 'Into Orbit' and the team had had to research an idea of how to make long distance space travel better for astronauts and presented their findings to a panel of judges. The judges loved their idea of growing lab-grown 'meat' in space so the astronauts can eat chicken nuggets in space!
After a tense first two rounds of running the robo…

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