**Ashton First School News** Friday 26th June 2020 It was been a hot and sticky week so far and we have been dodging the heat of the day by staying inside or under shade. We hope that those of you at home have been able to make the most of the lovely weather too and haven’t got too hot. Don’t forget to keep checking our website as when we have a new story we put it here. Thank you to Georga’s parents who gave us a

wonderful fruit basket this week, we have all enjoyed it. If you think you may be entitled to receive free school meals please speak to us.

You can check your eligibility by looking at the website below. You would then be

able to receive food vouchers throughout the summer holidays this year.

http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/info/20062/schools/684/applying_for_free_school_meals

The school governors sent out a survey last week please can you spare the time to complete it and

return it to their email address whether your child has been at school or at home. Thank you. An

additional copy has been attached to this newsletter.

Acorn Class

This week our home and school learners have enjoyed a theme of dragons…

Early Years

Inspired by the story of George and the Dragon, we have made dragons out of egg boxes,

played with the castles and dragons, practised new songs (and made our own) and mastered a

new game which we played in the park where the children had to save the princess from the

dragon. We have experimented with ‘hot and cold’, watching ice cubes melt, and the rate at

which they do in different locations. We have also learnt about fire safety and enjoyed a visit

from Daisy’s froglets!

Reception Bubble

The big excitement of the week was the discovery of an enormous nest at forest school!

Coloured feathers, charred logs, burnt toast and tracks through the undergrowth all added to

the mystery and excitement as we put our best detective skills to use to find out what has been

visiting the site and then on Friday we found a golden egg!

Meanwhile, back at school we have been busy making a time capsule

to bury in the school grounds and we hope that when we are very big

and in Year 5 , just before we leave Ashton School , we will be able to

find and dig up our time capsule and see how things have changed!

And at home …Benjamin has been performing dragon puppet

plays, Aubrey and Lottie have been building castles of ice and

sand, Ava has drawn some beautiful dragons and Beth has been

making treasure and eggs for her garden dragon.

Pirate Bubble

Another busy week with our crew. The children have been learning more about money and

more about measuring in maths. In English they have been following the story of Captain Plank

and are developing their own story about him. In DT we have been modelling with clay, making

pirates and parrots and we are about half way through our pirate ships where we have cut,

sawed (with a real saw!) and stuck together our models.

Hawthorn

Our lovely home learners in Hawthorn continue to do lots of wonderful things at home and lots

of you have made some super things with your activity bags. George made a pom pom owl

called Bob, Gracie made tasty pirate biscuits, Monty recreated his version of VanGogh’s

Sunflowers and Faye did her little ball of treasure and she managed to get 24 items beginning

with P into her ball!

Mrs Tulley’s Bubble

We had a very exciting Monday morning greeting lots of new children into our bubble and

seeing others come every day this week. It has been absolutely lovely see more of our Year 3

and Year 4 Key Workers and we have been very busy! Our English this week has been based

around our new class reader; The House That Sailed Away and we have been following the

antics of the family as they floated off to sea!! In Science we have been studying and watching

the germination of our broad bean seed and learnt lots of new scientific terminology like seed

coat, hilum and micropyl. Ask your child if they can tell you what geotropic and phototropic

mean too. We have had some lovely walks and visited Charlie’s ducklings too, and he showed us

how knowlegable he is about his new flock. We have enjoyed the sunshine and even got

creative with where we ate this week!!

Willow Class

Our lovely home-learners are keeping very busy too, Henry is getting a

new Puppy, Leo has enjoyed water fights in the garden and reading on

his decking, Eliza enjoyed finding out where food came from and Indie

was very excited by her

bag of goodies.

Mrs T’s Bubble

We started the week off by planting some sunflowers and bean plants. We are keeping a bean

diary to describe the changes and today we noticed quite a few changes as we had soaked the

seed in water for two days. We have been looking at the video ‘Home Sweet Home’ and doing

some descriptive writing as well as creating some graphs and charts in maths using data about

animals that live in the wild.

Oak Class

In Oak class we have received some lovely photos of what the children have been doing this

week. Amelie has had an art day and produced some lovely creative pieces, Chloe has been

doing some descriptive writing and William is looking forward to the arrival of a new puppy. Ella

tried out one of the Science investiations we sent out and had some fantastic results.

Are

Calling all children aged 4-11 years – sign up to the ‘Silly Squad Summer Reading Challenge 2020!’

The annual Summer Reading Challenge for children aged 4-11 years is being delivered online this year and offers a perfect solution for a summer term project that supports reading and literacy and helps promote reading for pleasure. This year’s challenge launched nationally on Friday 5th June. The theme is Silly Squad with a focus on the

enjoyment of reading for pleasure; children are encouraged to read anything that makes them happy

and can register for the challenge here -https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

Malvern Science in the Park Malvern Science in the Park is back this year but due to social distancing it will have a different feel. Join for free from your own home or garden for the fourth annual fun and exciting day exploring the wonders of science and technology from 10am-4.30pm on both Zoom and Facebook Live on Saturday 27 June. Try out some experiments for yourself guided by live science demonstrators, ask those burning science questions, and find out what it's like to be a scientist working in a lab. All the content is aimed to be interesting and engaging for primary and early secondary school aged children. Register to join the event as a webinar attendee on Zoom (numbers are limited, but for some of the talks you'll be able to ask the speakers questions). The event will also be streamed live on Facebook.

www.ashton.worcs.sch.uk 01386 881333