Week of 1st October 2012

This week we will be learning about Harvest.

We will be learning abut what happens and why at harvest time on the farm.
For those who attend Friday we will be joining school for harvest festival celebrations.
We are going to look at some breakfast cereals and try them e.g. those made with oats, wheats and corn.
We will also be doing lots of activities that need fingers such as planting, finger printing and cooking.

Communication and Language:-

'The little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside' by Caroline Sherwin Bailey

DON'T FORGET you an read our apple story by clicking on pupil links on the school home page, click on pre school folder and then on literacy.

Harvest and farm stories.

Physical development:-

Using fingers and hands to print, use tools, kneading bread and using fingers for action ryhmes and songs.

PSED:- Thinking about kind hands.

@Home:- LOOK!!!!!!

Tell us if you have seen a combine harvester, can you find a picture at home?

Swimming

The simming pool is now open and we are back to swimming this afternoon.

Parents' views are important to us

Whilst it is mainly designed for parents of school aged children, we would like to invite you to contribute to Ofsted's questionnaire about Amanda's pre-school. Just follow the link to Parent View from the Home page of our website. It will only take a few minutes!

Swimming

There will be NO swimming this week at pre-school due to the swimming pool being closed. Will inform everyone when it is open again.
Thanks

Week of 24th September 2012

This week we will continue to use apples as a theme for our learning. We will be making apple bisucits or muffins and apple crisps in the oven.
We will be saving pips to plant and learn a song about apple seeds to accompany the activity. We will also be playing board games and snap, and enjoying the role play area as a shop.
We will be using your blog star answers this week to make a graph so if you haven't answered the question in the home section please do so.

Communication and Language:-

'the little red house with no doors and no windows and a star inside by Caroline Sherwin Bailey
Starting to look at harvest books.

Physical Development:- Movement and handling, uses one handed tools e.g. scissors to snip and knives to make sandwiches and cooking.

@home:- LOOK!!!!!!!

Whats your favourite way to eat an apple?


Don't forget to join our fund raising committee

FANTASTIC NEWS!

I am delighted to confirm that our school film 'Running Blind' has been
selected to be screened at the Co-operative Film Festival 2012.
Congratulations! The organisers of the Film Festival are currently in the
process of creating a programme for the festival and a letter confirming the
date and time of our screening (Thursday 1st November or Friday 2nd November)
will follow in due course. For more information about the Co-operative Film
Festival 2012 please visit: http://www.co-operative.coop/filmfestival/About-the-Festival/.
For more information about 'Running Blind' see our previous Blog post at: http://pow-office.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/film-premiere-big-success.html
and to watch the film click here: http://pow-office.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/our-paralympic-inspired-film-watch-it.html

Listen back to our pupils on Wessex FM!

Every morning this week Wessex FM are playing clips from pupils at the Prince of Wales First School as part of their Breakfast Show feature 'School Report'. This is currently going out each morning on Wessex FM at 6.30am and 8.30am (after the news). If you have missed the first two days, you can now listen back at: http://www.wessexfm.com/school-report.php. For more information about the pupils visit to Wessex FM, check out the Digital Leader Blog at: http://www.dl-pow.blogspot.co.uk/

Week of 17th September 2012

This week, weather permitting we will be going to the school orchard to pick apples, starting our theme of apples and harvest. When we have picked and stored them we will be planning with the children how they would like to cook them.
We will be recording the activity for our learning journey through pictures and photographs, and arts and crafts.@Home
We will be using the information from the blog question and what the children choose to make a simple graph.
We will also be finishing off any lighthouse activities.

Communication and language (listening and attention)
The lighthouse keeper stories by Rhonda and David Armitage, listening to stories with increasing attention and recall. Starting to look at harvest books.

Physical development
Movement and handling, uses one handed tools e.g. Scissors to snip and knives to make sandwiches.
Lots of different ways to enjoy threading.

@Home: LOOK!!!!
Whats your favourite way to eat an apple? (whole, crumble, pie, juice etc.) A star to fill in your answer is in your pigeon hole.

Week of 10th September 2012

This week we are reading The Lighthouse keepers stories. We are starting with the Lighthouse keepers lunch. We will be remembering the sequence of the story, threading, making snadwiches and investigating how pulleys work.

Communication and Language:-

The lighthouse keeper stories by Rhonda and David Armitage, listening to stories with increasing attention and recall.

Physical Development:-

Movement and handling, uses one handed tools e.g. Scissors to snip and Knives to make sandwiches.

@Home:- LOOK!!!!!

Can you bring in a picture of what you enjoyed in the holidays?

WE LOVE A GOOD COMMENT!

We love it when we log in and see that a comment has been made on our blogs! It shows you are reading them and encourages all of us to write more! All comments made on the class blogs, through the school website, can also be read out to the classes during carpet time...which the children love! To make a comment simply click the blog title on the school website and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Fill in the comment box with your comment and sign in with one of several account options or just add your comment as a guest by selecting ‘name/url’. To publish your comment, click ‘publish’. Any questions, please see Mr. Spracklen.

Week of 5/9/12

Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely summer break and are looking forward to the new term. This week we will be thinking back to what we did in the summer holidays and enjoying an ICT and craft activity with that theme. We will be settling into our new routines and enjoying playing outside.

PSRN

Sorting and matching activities.

CLL 

Books about holidays. Introducing the lighthouse keeper stories.

@Home LOOK!!!!!!!

Can you bring in a picture of what you enjoyed in the holidays?

'Running Blind' to be shown in ICCI 360 Cinema

We are excited to announce that our Paralympic inspired film 'Running Blind' will be shown tomorrow (05/09/12) from 3-4.30pm as well as on Saturday (08/09/12) and Sunday (09/09/12) in the ICCI 360 Cinema in Weymouth. The ICCI 360 Cinema is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and more information about the cinema can be found at this link - http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/icci360.

Further information about our film can be seen below:

We have made our own animated film to celebrate a year of Paralympic activities in our school and we are now really proud to share it with the world! Inspired by blind footballer David Clark and ex-pupil and former Paralympic medallist Mark Newton, we have created Running Blind a Paralympic story with an agricultural twist featuring an angry bull, a Dorset farmer and the Team GB Paralympic training camp at Maiden Castle. Children across the school worked with a team of artists to write, draw, animate, voice and direct the three minute film which is being screened during London 2012 Paralympic Games. Blind goalscorer David Clarke faces the challenge of his life as he prepares for the Games. Players are baffled when a lost match ball is mysteriously heard moving around the pre-games venue at Maiden Castle.

With the help of other Paralympians, sharp-eyed schoolchildren help solve the riddle but getting that ball back takes all of the blind striker’s extraordinary skills. Project producer and drama therapist Sharon Hayden said the children had come up with some wonderful story ideas. “Through drama sessions and working with our scriptwriting mentor, they have produced a great story - and done it justice with some lovely drawing and animation. “We are incredibly grateful to funders First Light and West Dorset District Council who have given these children the opportunity to make something which will be seen by thousands of people.”

Assistant head Gary Spracklen said the experience had been one that would live with the children forever. “The team of artists from our production partner Nisbet Media have done a wonderful job and involved the whole school in this project. It has been extraordinary to see the different elements of the film come together.”

Running Blind is funded by the Lottery through the BFI's First Light initiative.

Film:

Making of film: