Author Visit-Katie May Green

Another excellent talk from an author for our book week at Coleham. This time, it’s Katie May Green who wrote ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘See and not Heard’.  Katie is also an Illustrator and helped Year 1 illustrate victorian portraits.

Author Visit – Jen Carney

We were very pleased to welcome Jen Carney to school to talk about her series of books including ‘The Accidental Diary of B.U.G.’

Jen is both author and illustrator for her books and she had lots of interesting things to tell us. She also knows a lot about biscuits!

Times Table Rockstars Day

It’s the last day of term and we’re dressing like rockstars to tie in with the a great maths app that we use called Times Table Rockstars

We also use another maths app called Numbots

Snippets from Animation Club

Mr Williams’ animation club meet for an hour each week and use their creativity and a free rein to make something wild, weird or magical.

Here are a selection of snippets of their work for you to wonder at!

 

Eco Council want your bread bags!

We now have a Terracycle Recycling Point at Coleham School. All you need to do is drop your used bread bags in the collection bin in the school foyer. The eco-council are pleased to have helped to set this up and will monitor how many bags are collected.

Dress to Express

We had a great time dressing up to express ourselves today.

The idea is simple – use colour to express yourself by wearing a colourful outfit!

Plastic Pollution Awareness

Turtles class made some posters about Plastic Pollution in geography.  Today, we put the posters up in 8 shop windows in Coleham to teach our community about plastic pollution.  The shops are:  the Allotment, the florist, Fade In barbers, the bike

shop, House Cafe, the Charity shop, Pink Moon and Fit Box.

 

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Coleham Ofsted Results make the news!

The Shropshire Star have written a lovely report on our recent Ofsted inspection. Read it here:

The report states that: “This is a school that sits at the heart of the local community. Leaders provide extensive opportunities for pupils’ wider development” and the report is …
www.shropshirestar.com

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2022/01/26/heads-pride-after-shrewsbury-schools-glowing-report/

Coleham Team in Panathlon

Today a group of children went to a Panathlon event at Shrewsbury Sports Village. Coleham did really well, coming in third place.
Children participated in a range of different activities; boccia blast, bean bag throw, kurling, table cricket and lots more.
Well done team!

Music Club celebrates Burns Night

The wonderful Rhythmsticks music club arranged for a piper to come into school to mark the occasion of Burns night.  They had a wonderful time parading around Forest School.

 

Healthy Eating Cookery Roadshow

Our school meal providers, Academy Catering, arranged for The School Food Showdown Healthy Eating Roadshow to visit us today.

We had a great time watching two teams in a cook-off, it was very exciting and we learned some healthy cooking tips!

Music Club Beat Boxing

Rhythmsticks Music Club dip into the world of digital music by introducing the children to Beat Boxing.

Thank you to our neighbours

We are so proud of these pupils who went to personally thank each of the shops on Wyle Cop for donating to our Grand Hamper Raffle.  Public speaking is a great skill to learn!  Lucas sketched the shop fronts for a beautiful Christmas Card.  Thank you to the traders for their kindness and for helping us raise £1,500 for school.

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2021 Staff Christmas Video

Staff had a great time making this fun video for the children, even when OFSTED visited in the middle of us making it!  It was touch and go whether we could finish it off but in true Coleham style we rallied round and pulled it out of the bag!  Until next year…

 

St Chads Christmas Tree Festival

In December lots of classes popped out of school and visited St Chads Church to see their Christmas Tree Festival.  They were free to enjoy the Christmas ambience and beautiful building.

Christmas presents to Briarfields

Full of festive kindness, the children delivered their Christmas boxes to the residents at Briarfields Care Home in Belle Vue.

Drama Club’s Matilda Production

Over the Autumn Term, the Drama Club worked so hard to perfect their acting, singing, dancing and prop making skills, culminating in a performance of ‘Matilda the Musical’ for Years 5 and 6. They performed the house down and received a huge applause for their closing number, Revolting Children. Their characters were so convincing that we feared the school may be overthrown (!) but luckily, the children were happy to accept certificates of achievement instead.

 

Christmas Stockings

Year 4 were proud to produce their finished Christmas Stockings and take them home.  They have been working on this Design & Technology project this half term.

Shrewsbury Castle Visit

Both year 6 classes visited Shrewsbury Castle to take part in a workshop ‘Every medal tells a story’. The children spent time exploring the castle and also took part in a drama based activity to find out about a character. A great time was had by all.

A fond farewell to Coleham Buchers

We were delighted to attend the heart-warming presentation for our neighbours G.O Elson Family Butchers.  After an incredible 51 years of service to our community Granville and Jason are hanging up their aprons and closing up shop!  It was an emotional occasion with a This is Your Life presentation from the Belle Vue Community Action Group.

A link to the news story in the Shropshire Star is included below:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2021/12/08/much-loved-shrewsbury-butcher-hangs-up-cleaver-after-51-years/

More Sporting Fixtures

Both year 6 classes visited Shrewsbury Castle to take part in a workshop ‘Every medal tells a story’. The children spent time exploring the castle and also took part in a drama based activity to find out about a character. A great time was had by all.

EYFS explore local bridges

Last Friday for Design and Technology, EYFS braved the weather to explore some local bridges. Miss Harris and the EYFS team were so impressed by the children’s ability to identify features of the bridges and recall the names of each one. Perhaps the hot chocolate helped with that!

Eco Council Competition Winners

Recently,  our eco-council set up a competition for Coleham children to design an eco-themed mural to be painted on a wall in our playground. So many children throughout the school put forward designs which was great to see. Amy Smith, the artist who has been commissioned to paint the mural, has had a look at each of the designs and has come up with an overall winner: Sol in year 4.
A runner up from each year group was also selected as we were overwhelmed with the fantastic entries. These pictures will be displayed on the school eco board.
Sol’s picture is attached and so are a selection of some of the other designs which were entered.
Well done to everyone who entered.

International Day

We had a great international day where we explored and learned more about the worlds many varied nations, cultures and traditions. We dressed up, sang songs had many visitors and even played the sport Kabaddi.

Children make charity Christmas Cards

Local charity, Omega, based on town walls approached us about creating Christmas cards for their elderly clients, many of whom have no family. Children from years 2-6 took part and were inspired to create beautiful cards to put a smile on the face of someone who could potentially be lonely this Christmas.
On Monday 22nd November, year 6s Ariana and Dylan – alongside Mrs Stennett – presented the cards they made and around 200 others to Claire from Omega.
After receiving the cards Claire said, “The cards really are delightful. We had a good look through when we arrived back at the office and our hearts were literally melting at how much thought and care has gone into them, we cannot thank you enough.”

7 A Side Tournament

A group of year 5/6 children took part in a football tournament against 9 other schools. We played 7 a side and worked really well together. There was some fantastic goal saving from Dylan and Daniel!

Children In Need

Today we are doing our bit for children in need by dressing up and having a special Pudsey lunch.

Forest School in the News

Read all about it! This week our EYFS children opened their new Woodland area and inspired by the Foxes and Badgers that live on the school grounds officially named the area as Badger Hill and Little Cubs Orchard.

See the Shropshire Star article here:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2021/11/19/kids-joy-as-forest-school-is-opened/

Music Club Cornet & Poetry Concert

This week Rhythmsticks Club had a Cornet Concert with special guest children to play their cornets and perform a poem by Tennyson!

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