Please see how we have enriched our curriculum. If you have any ways that you could support with enrichment activities, please let us know!
Foundation and Year 2 were visited today by the local fire service. Firemen came in and spoke about their job and how they help people keep safe. The children got to go out to the fire engine, get inside, try on the uniform and even fire the hose!
Today, our Year 4 school councillors spoke to the school during assembly to discuss the upcoming elections for the school council in other year groups. They explained the different qualities a school councillor must have and the commitment you are making if you put yourself forward. We spoke about democracy as one of our British Values as a fair way of choosing our representatives from each class.
Today, we were very lucky to welcome teacher and author Miss Driscoll into school to work with the Year 3 and 4 children. She shared her book 'The Tale of Dif the Dragon' and read us the first chapter. We then designed our own dragons that could be part of the story. To end, we asked lots of questions about what being an author is like.
This morning, we welcomed Jessica from Corfe Mullen library into school to discover the summer reading challenge.
Explore the Ready, Set, Read! Book Collection
Get ready for a whole load of team spirit, your fave sporty (or not!) heroes, and plenty of fun with our latest collection for the 2023 sports and games themed Summer Reading Challenge: Ready, Set, Read! Each book has been specially chosen by an expert group of readers for everybody taking part to enjoy.
Lots of these titles are also available for you to enjoy – for free! – through your local library service. Visit your local library’s website or app to browse their online catalogue. If you would like more information, please follow this link: Summer Reading Challenge
This afternoon, Year 4 performed their Leavers assembly to their grown ups. They performed a poem they had written about their time at Henbury, thought about their best memories and sang lots of beautiful songs. Afterwards, they enjoyed a cream tea with their grown ups while looking through their year books.
This afternoon, Year 4 were extremely lucky to work with Mr and Mrs Macklin who came in to support their computing learning. They showed some examples of their own animations and then helped the children make their own flip-o-ramas.
Year 4 were visited by the Dorset MHST this afternoon to support with their transition to middle school. The children discussed how they were feeling about moving schools and learnt some techniques to help with any anxiety or worries they were feeling.
This week, we have welcomed artist Des Alner into school to create a community art piece to help celebrate Henbury View First School being 30 years old! All children from all year groups spent time with Des, working with clay to create pond wildlife and plants. They used a range of different clay tools and techniques, working carefully and accurately to replicate shapes from inspirational images.
This week has been our Sports Week. The children had the opportunity to experience different sports each day:
It has been a great week where the children have looked at the sporting values and shown great determination and resilience to give new sports a go! We also ended the week with a sportswear dress up day.
This afternoon, we had our Henbury Sports Day 2023. The children started with a wake a shake to warm up and then completed a carousel of activities including a javelin throw, an obstacle course and a space hopper race! The KS2 children then had the chance to run a relay race before the winners were announced. The winners this year were......... YELLOW TEAM. All the children then got a badge to say congratulations for taking part.
Today, Year 3 were extremely lucky to welcome Dr Anjana Khatwa into school, a leading Earth scientist and geologist, to help us learn about the rocks and fossils found along the Jurassic Coast. Having visited Lulworth Cove yesterday, this was ideal to help us make sense of what we saw on our trip.
“Every rock is a time machine, it helps us know what happened in the past.”
Dr Khatwa began by sharing what her job is and how she was interested in rocks and fossils from a young age. She showed us some clips from her on TV and explained her fight for diversity within science. Dr Khatwa then shared some examples of rocks and fossils that she had collected.
We also looked at examples of coal and found out how it had changed life for humans. We looked at how it was a fossil fuel because it was made of fossilised plants, and how it was organic, because it used to live and breathe.
We then had an opportunity to share the rocks, fossils, books and pictures we had brought in to share. We also asked Dr Khatwa lots of different questions to help improve our understanding of our local coastlines.
Today, Year 3 visited Lulworth Cove on their school trip. We started with a presentation about the coastline and then looked at the different rocks found in the area. We walked up to Stair Hole and did some observational drawing followed by heading down to look at the cove. After lunch, we went into the visitor centre and spent time on the beach searching for fossils.
