On Tuesday 28th February M&M Theatre performed a wonderful production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to KS1 & KS2. Classes are now creating Narnia themed displays with artwork and writing in their classrooms as part of our Big Read events. Click on the link here to view the full gallery.
Big Read Week: We have lots of fun activities planned to promote the enjoyment of reading.
On Tuesday M&M Theatre perform The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Classes will be creating Narnia displays with artwork and writing in their classrooms.
Wednesday is storytelling morning! Staff will be reading special books all over the school – pupils will be able to choose the stories they want to listen to.
Thursday is World Book Day 2017 – Every child received a £1 voucher to use at our Spring Book Fair or any book shop.
Friday is Mystery Book day. To finish the week every class will be delivered a mystery book all wrapped up to open for the final story time on Friday afternoon – what will your class get in its parcel?
Competition Time: The Battle of the Books!
Write a persuasive review explaining why others should read a favourite book. Winners from each year group will choose a prize from the Book Fair.
Extreme Reading Challenge
Take a photo of yourself reading in an unusual (but not dangerous!) place! Upload it onto our special Treehouse page (#BigReadWeek / Extreme Reading) and share it with the rest of the school.
Desert Island Reads
Let’s get blogging about our best books. If you could only choose one, which book would you take to a desert island? Why would you take it? Tell the rest of the school on the TreeHouse #BigReadWeek/ Desert Island Reads
We hope that everyone gets involved in our Big Read Week!
As part of our AIM@Digital programme we are always keen to promote positive behaviour online. During the past week we have been studying digital technology, computational thinking and online safety. Take look at some of the exciting things we got up to…
On Monday 6th February our Digital Champions prepared and presented an assembly to the whole school about safe internet use to get us ready for Safer Internet Day 2017. Woodcroft Digital Champions are pupils that work with Mr Guest, our IT Lead Teacher, in a weekly club to manage our online applications and support their classes.
Safer Internet Day 2017 was celebrated globally on Tuesday 7th February with the theme ‘Be the change: unite for a better internet’. Every class throughout the school took part in activities during PSHE lessons discovering how to show good manners while on the internet, and learning about online safety. We call this Digital Wisdom at Woodcroft.
Every year group was set two challenges:
Challenge 1: Try out a new application or digital resource that you haven’t used before
Challenge 2: Develop computational thinking through an ‘unplugged’ activity; learning about computing and coding without using any technology!
Some amazing activities took place! Here is just a small sample…
Unplugged: Physical Pac Man, debugging baking recipes, creating physical email servers, following algorithm instructions and musical coding!
Plugged: Digital film making, applications for leaning, Google G Suite, Storybird, WeVideo and Beebot coding.
Click here to view the presentation.
On Thursday 9th February parents were invited to a workshop to discuss the complex issues encountered when children use devices to go online. Mr Guest presented the outcomes from Woodcroft’s most recent pupil surveys and highlighted some of the main issues. Practical ideas for how to help your child and links to recommended websites were also given.
For more information, visit the online safety page of the school website: click here
