Learning Luggage

The EYFS team have put together their own initiative that helps investigate learning through play and exploration whilst at home. An exciting way for parents to join their children in discovery, creativity, co-operation and exploration.

It’s called Learning Luggage.  Watch out for the bags coming home!

Football Victory for the under 10’s

Football Victory.  Under 10’s. 5-2 Home match against Greenfields.  It looked Greenfields were going to make a comeback but Coleham dug deep for the final result.

Fire Safety for Year 3

Shropshire Fire and Rescue came in to talk to Year 3 about fire safety in the home. The children had the opportunity to explore the fire engine and work the hose!

Odd socks for Diversity Day

This week is Anti-bullying and Diversity Week.  Here are are some of our Year 4 pupils wearing odd socks to promote diversity.

Little Cubs Orchard

This week saw the official opening of Little Cub’s Orchard and we were joined by special visitor Mrs Giani from Inside Out Learning to cut the ribbon.  Franky bought all the children magic wands for the ceremony.  Badgers and Foxes really enjoyed all the new areas to discover:
  • A large digging pit
  • Rope swings
  • Slides
  • Insect exploration/Bug Hotel
  • Climbing ropes
  • Physical trail/Obstacle course
  • Den building
  • Nature corner
  • Outdoor Stage

Careers Week

There are all sorts of excellent and inspiring visitors coming to school as part of our inspirational careers week.  All classes take part as you’re never too young to learn about careers in our opinion.

Today we were blown away (nearly literally) by a breath taking landing from Emilia and Oliver’s Dad when he landed an RAF helicopter on our school field.

You can read all about it in this Shropshire Star article

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2021/11/11/helicopter-lands-at-school-as-careers-week-takes-flight/

Stargazing at Space Cadets Club

Space Cadets club had a great time on Thursday evening with Mr L’s telescopes.  We spent nearly two hours in the cold spotting Jupiter, Saturn, millions of stars, the Andromeda Galaxy and other objects.  Thanks to all the parents who brought their children along!

Theatre Group in School

Years 1 to 4  were treated to a live performance of Wind in the Willows from theatre group ‘Wizard Theatre’ today.

Football Tournament at Shrewsbury Town

Well done to the Coleham team who played at Shrewsbury Town Football club in their EFL Cup Competition with other schools from our region. We came a respectable 3rd.

Well done team!

The Daily Dash is baack!

This week Mr Venn has restarted the Daily Dash, join him at 8.30 in the morning by the bottom corner gate for a wake up run!

Out in the community

Some of our Year 5 pupils we’re out and about in our community visiting local businesses this week. They were inviting staff to join us as guest speakers for Careers Week so they can share their knowledge and experience with us. Here they are signing up Canny Cuts for a visit!

Multi-Cultural Arts week

This week, each year group across the school have been creating art based on different religions.

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Spooky Halloween lunch

Our wonderful kitchen staff decorated up the hall and cooked up a Halloween treat this week with Spooky Sausage Pasta and Spider Web cakes amongst other delights!

 

Yr 4 Roman Day

This week Year 4 dressed up as gladiators, citizens, gods or goddesses, Celts and emperors. They learned about Roman numerals, tasted some roman nibbles, designed and made their own mosaic pattern, marched like the Roman army, formed a protective battle formation and walked down the cat walk showing off their costume.

Saxophone trio visit Music Club

Rhythmsticks Music Club welcome a Sax trio this week!

Dodgeball Tournament

This week our Dodgeball team journeyed to Shrewsbury Sports Village to play in tournament with other local schools and displayed great resilience against very tough opposition. Well done dodgeballers!

Stepping Out Safely

This week, Year 4 are having ‘Stepping Out’ training to teach them about being safe around roads and how to cross the road safely.

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Cross Country Champs!

On Friday, we took part in the  Belvidere Cross Country Competition against 6 other schools.

There was a mix of children taking part with ages ranging from years 3-6.

Teamwork and dedication were shown from all and we’re very happy to report that our team triumphed as the competition winners!

Well done Coleham runners!

Music Mark Award

Music and creativity are really important to us here at Coleham. We have an excellent music curriculum and a dedicated music teacher, Mrs Porritt. We are now also a nominated Music Mark school.

Quentin Blake Artist Study

Year 4 have been so engaged with their study of Quentin Blake with many children carrying on their learning at home with their families.  We are so impressed with their enthusiasm and fantastic illustrations.

Yr 3 Stone Age Day

Year 3 took part in an interactive workshop by the fantastic ladies from Widget Workshop who immersed us in the world of The Stone Age!
They took us back in time exploring Stone Age artefacts, making wattle and daub walls, looking at food and even discovering famous Stone Age locations through the interactive VR headsets.
It’s safe to say that the children had a wonderful time!

Violin Mini Concert

Rhythmsticks Club welcome young violinists for mini concert!

Harvest Food Bank Donations

Thank you for all your kind harvest donations. It was lovely for School Councillors to take them down to the food bank where they were gratefully received.

The ‘Liz Brazier’ Memorial Library

In tribute for Mrs Brazier the library was officially renamed in her honour.  The ‘Liz Brazier Memorial Library’ plaque was unveiled by Author Lesley Parr and our newly appointed Year 6 Librarians.

 

Author Visit – Lesley Parr

It was absolutely wonderful to have author Lesley Parr visit school and tell us all about her new book featuring evacuees Jimmy and Florence who are sent to a welsh mining village.  She got the idea for the mystery from a newspaper clipping she had collected years ago and stored away in a special box!

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Orienteering at Carding Mill Valley

Well done all who took part in the orienteering event at Carding Mill Valley. Our team were overall winners and we are all very proud of your skills!

SUMO Day

Year two have been learning a way of looking at situations called SUMO (Stop, Understand, Move On).

As part of this we had a whole school ‘Change your T-Shirt’ day.

The idea behind the day is to encourage children to think about how they respond to events. We learned that we can’t always control the events that happen in our lives but we can control the way that we respond and our response can have a dramatic effect on outcomes, that is, a positive response = a positive outcome.

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Year 4 away from home

Year 4 had an amazing time at Condover Activity centre this week where they had the opportunity to sleepover away from home and take part in lots of physical and mental challenges that extend the learning that we do in the classroom.

What an adventure! Well done Year 4

Science Experiment

We love practical experiments in our science work-here is Year 4 investigating how sugar and yeast react producing carbon dioxide which was collected in balloons.  Great work from our scientists.

 

 

 

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