Hello everyone and welcome to our blog. I hope you are all keeping warm now that the weather is getting rather chilly. As usual we have another very busy week at Copthorne.
I can now confirm that the total amount raised for Children in Need was £534.19. This is absolutely tremendous and on behalf of the charity I would like to thank you all for your generosity.
Thank you to everyone who brought bags to school for the firefighters’ collection. I will let you know in due course the amount we raised for school funds.
This week at Copthorne
On Monday 9th December our netball team will take part in a netball competition at Grange Technology College. I am sure they will be great ambassadors for our school and we wish them well.
On Tuesday 10th December, Year 3 will be visiting All Saints Church in Little Horton as part of their current topic ‘light and dark’. They will be looking at the beautiful stained glass windows in the church and we are very grateful to the Church for welcoming our children.
A special visitor will be working with Year 4 this week. The visitor will be delivering a day- long workshop to support Year 4’s creative curriculum topic:Australia. The children will experience a variety of different activities exploring Australia’s indigenous culture. 4 Poplar will have their workshop on 12th December and 4 Beech will have theirs on 13th December. It should be a very interesting and fun day and I am looking forward to hearing all about it.
On Thursday 12th December our School Council pupils will be going to Princeville Primary to meet with other School Councillors from the other chools from our Exceed Alliance. They will talk about what they have done in school, share their ideas and have a tour around Princeville. We look forward to hearing all about our pupils’ ideas for the future at Copthorne.
On Friday 13th December Year 5 will be visiting The Colour Museum. The visit has been arranged in order to support the theme of work carried out in Year 5 Creative Curriculum lessons. The museum covers the science of light and colour and I am sure they will find the day very interesting and informative.
Also on Friday, 4 Poplar will be taking part in a School’s Linking Project. This involves the children working with another school on joint projects. The school we are linking with is All Saints Primary in Ilkley. The children have already exchanged information about each other and now they are going to meet each other for the first time at Nell Bank, where they will undertake a range of outdoor team building activities with their link partners. I am sure the children will have a wonderful time and make lots of new friends.
Have another great week, everyone.
Mrs Shepherd