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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Stars of the Term - Spring 2023

  Fri 31 Mar 2023

  Stars of the Term

  Congratulations to our Stars of the Term,  Ruby Leeds in Reception, Oliver Hobcroft in Y1 and Imogen Walton in Y2 on their  fabulous achievement.  They have consistently demonstrated our Golden Values across the term, well done to you all!

   

• Shining Stars of the Week 27th March

  Mon 27 Mar 2023

  Congratulations to Beatrice, Joshua and Evie, who are our Shining Stars of the Week.  They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.

  

• Science Week

  Fri 24 Mar 2023

  Last week we enthusiastically celebrated British Science Week. This year’s theme was ‘Connections’. Connections offered a huge range of topics to explore from gas bubbles to the human body. At Coleshill Infant School, we love to inspire and enthuse children to learn and Science Week provided us with a wonderful opportunity to do so. The children were immersed in a week full of awe and wonder and fun activities and engaged in some very inquisitive thinking.

   

  Here are a few of the photos of what the children got up to during our very busy Science week:  

  Reception experimented with M&Ms, made popcorn dance in water and made split pin people and made lava lamps.

   

  Year 1’s made a rocket using a balloon, some exciting Elephant tooth paste and even made an egg bounce!

   

  Year 2’s looked at how the parts of a plant are connected and experimented making circuits with bulbs and motors.

   

  All of the children also experimented making paper aeroplanes out of different types of paper and having a whole school race outside! They talked about how the wind helped or hindered their flights. The children also LOVED our coke and mentos explosion. The looks on their faces were a picture!

   

  We were also had lots of very interesting speakers visit the school.  We started the week off with an online assembly with Michael Dunn, who taught the children all about his role and life in the Antarctic. The children (and staff) were fascinated and learned a lot. 

   

  All the children thoroughly enjoyed learning how to be a doctor in our teddy bear hospital with Dr Hobcroft. A huge thank you to Oliver’s mum for coming in and teaching the children how to bandage their toys and helping them make their very own hospital badge!  

   

  Another big thank you goes to Dr Jane Mcneilly, (a school governor) who held an assembly to show the children all about her role as an anaesthetist.  The children found it interesting learning about Mercy Ships who bring surgeries to people with little access to care.

   

  Huge thanks also goes to Conrad's dad who volunteered to talk about the human skeleton and even bandaged up Conrad’s arm in front of the school.

   

  Eloise’s dad presented a wonderful lesson on how vaccines are used to protect us against diseases.  It stimulated some fabulous questions including "Why do people get a vaccine if they are not poorly?", "If germs are around and on you all of the time, how do they sometimes make you sick?" and "What is it in soap and hand sanitiser that kills germs?"

   

  The children also had visit from Wild Science, who delivered a fantastic workshop, including dry ice experiments.

   

  We are all very grateful of the visitors help during the week, the children and adults learnt so much!  Some comments from the Year 2 children include: 

   

  “I liked Eloise’s Daddy because he makes lots of vaccines that help people to not get viruses.  I learned that hand sanitiser has alcohol in it”

   

  “ I liked when we learned about how we get the vaccinations to stop us getting sick and it puts dead germs in your body and when you get the real illness it is easier for your body to fight it off.”

   

  “He told us about bones!  He told us about how light bones were and that they have a honeycomb inside.”  

   

  “I learned that you don’t have to have a sling for a broken up, you have bandages and a cast” 

   

  “She said that was one of the people that puts people to sleep.  We learned about a little boy whose legs were getting wider and wider and she helped him by straightening them.”

   

  “He told us a lot about the Arctic.  He told us about penguins, seals and how deep the snow was.  I most liked it when he told us about the penguins and seals waiting outside the front door of his hut”.

   

  “ I liked it when she got loads of beakers and we got to choose lots of different colours for each one.  After that she put in some hot water and dry ice and then it made a big explosion of mist.  It was really fun because we learned that that’s how they make the potions in Harry Potter!”

   

  “My favourite part was when she made the ginormous bucket of bubbles! And I didn’t know you could mix washing soap, hot water and dry ice together to make bubbles with smoke in”

   

  The children thoroughly enjoyed the activities and we are so proud of how well the children have embraced a week of science.  We look forward to inspiring their scientific minds even more throughout the year!

  

• Shining Stars of the Week w/c 20th March

  Mon 20 Mar 2023

  Congratulations to Kiran, Quinn and Stella , who are our Shining Stars of the Week.  They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.

  

• Red Nose Day

  Fri 17 Mar 2023

  Thank you for all of your donations for Red Nose Day, the children enjoyed their mufti day!

  

• Shining Stars of the Week w/c 13th March

  Tue 14 Mar 2023

  Congratulations to Willow, Yaman and Rosie , who are our Shining Stars of the Week.  They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.

  

• Shining Stars of the Week - w/c 6th March

  Mon 06 Mar 2023

  Congratulations to Spencer, Oliver and Alisa, who are our Shining Stars of the Week.  They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.

  

• World Book Day celebrations

  Fri 03 Mar 2023

   

  Thank you so much for all the wonderful costumes for the costume parade this morning, it was lovely to see the children dressed up as their favourite book character for the day .

   

  Children’s Author

  Richard Dikstra who wrote “The Adventures of Captain Bobo” series for children aged 4+ which is now a radio series on Fun Kids as well came in to do a reading of his first Captain Bobo book (Bananas!), he also chatted  about how he became an author and took questions from the children. 

   

  Richard also had the very difficult job of judging the potato character competition - congratulations to the winners, who were all awarded a book.

   

  The children were all given a £1 book token to put towards a book of their choice and we had a big book swap at the end of the day.

   

  

• World Book Day Potato Character Competition

  Fri 03 Mar 2023

  Thank you to all of the children who created potato characters for our World Book Day competition.  There were some absolutely fabulous entries and we really appreciate all of the effort that went into making them.

   

  Richard Dikstra, our visiting author had the very difficult job of judging the competition and picked 2 winners from each class.

   

  Congratulations to Beatrix and Charlie in Reception, Quinn and Oliver in Year 1 and Noah and Stella in Year 2!

  

• Holi workshop with KZ Dance

  Thu 02 Mar 2023

  The children all had a fabulous time at the Holi workshop with KZ dance.  They learned some Bollywood dances and had the opportunity to celebrate Holi, the festival of colours, in the playground with powder paints.

   

  The parents joined us for a dance performance and for the Holi celebration and everyone went home a little more colourful than before!