Newsletter: Spring Term 2021: Week 2 

 

 

Lorenden Online - Week 2 

 Lorenden Online - Picture by Tilly in Year 2 

 Whilst the weather has been pretty miserable outside we are pleased to see so many                             lovely photos of pupils enjoying their learning this week. I have been in school every                             day and it has been really good to see pupils working hard and taking well earned breaks                                 together too. I hope you have received my email earlier today outlining clubs and                           Parents’ Evening information and hope you enjoy the photos below:   

    

 

 

 THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES 

 

Nursery 

 Winter Theme  The children made mitten wreaths, mitten number lines and ‘rocking robins’ amongst                       other crafts this week! I love seeing all the photos on Google Classroom and the                             children also enjoy showing their wonderful crafts to me when on a ‘meet’. We played a                               game during our Wednesday group ‘meet’ with our mitten number line and even though                           I tried to trick the children by taking numbers away, they always guessed which one was                               missing! Well done, clever children! (Miss Wilton) 

Reception 

 Fun with shapes 

The children have learnt about repeating patterns this week. Clara has painted some                         beautiful art work too. 

 

 

Year 1 

   

 Penguin week 

Year 1 pupils have had a wonderful time, both at home and in school, making these                               wonderful penguins. 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 2 

 

 

The Gingerbread Sliders 

Year 2 have been continuing their work on Fairy Tales. They have read the story of the                                 Gingerbread Man and in DT made a slider to chase the Gingerbread man! Ada has made                               her own snow globes, Louis drew a picture of the Jack and the Beanstalk and used his                                 slider to move the Giant up and down the beanstalk. Bella has made one of the three                                 little pigs and Matilda has been very creative making a dress for her teddy. 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 3 

   

 

Depicting images of Jesus This week, the children in Year 3 have been starting to learn about images of Jesus.                               They looked at lots of different paintings and representations of Jesus, and then created                           their own pictures. These ones were drawn by Florence, Autumn, Joseph, Isabelle and                         Olivia. 

Some quiet concentration! Joseph is working hard on his writing. 

 

 

 

Year 4  

 Renoir Art  These beautiful paintings, inspired by Renoir, were painted by Libby, Ethan and                       Emmeline. 

 

French 

 Epiphany  Imogen in Year 6 made the delicious la galette des Rois pastry which is made especially                               for Epiphany. Nursery learnt the song 'deux petits oiseaux'. Here is Mia with her petits                             oiseaux! 

 

 

 

 

Forest School 

 

 Mini Beasts 

Reception and Year 1 have had great fun creating their mini-beasts for Forest School.                           Daniel’s spider family enjoyed a whole day out camping and roasting marshmallows over                         an open fire! George, Felix and Harriet created wonderful beasts! 

 

 

 

 

  

 

PE and Games 

   A Flying Start 

Lilly-May in Year 3 has made a flying start to this year by taking up running! Well done                                   Lilly-May! 

Congratulations 

 

   Year 5 Litter Picking  Congratulations to Saskia and Emilia who did their part of the (socially distanced!)                         sponsored litter pick organised by Year 5 on 3 January. They collected 3 bin bags of                               litter from the road outside their houses in 45 minutes, and have raised over £80 for the                                 RSPCA. Well done to Rufus who has pledged to pick 20 bags of rubbish whilst out                               walking his dogs (he has completed this today!). If you would like to Sponsor our Year                               5s in their Charity Litter pick you can go to Rufus’ just giving page: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/rufuss-rspcalitter-pick-up-challenge?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

 

 

 

   Best wishes for a safe weekend 

 

Mrs Uttley 

 Lorenden Prep School