Ice exploration ❄️

 

Ice exploration at forest school!

We found different shapes and talked about their properties. Then we explored how long it took for the ice to melt and what helped the ice melt quickly!

 

Penguins! 🐧

Today has centred around penguins! Where do they live? What do they eat? What do they like to do? Some children set up a slide for the penguins and tested the materials to see if they were ‘slippy’ enough. We used words like ‘rough, smooth, shiny, soft’ to predict whether the penguins would be able to slide.

This led us on to talk about cold colours and some of us explored mixing blue and white paint to make different shades.

Great work, Caterpillars!

Kingfishers visit Bowbrook House 🏠

We went to Bowbrook House to ask the residents all about what like was like when they were little, so we can identify changes over time as part of our History topic.

We finished off with a Christmas nativity sing song & left with early Christmas presents! 🎶

Wildlife Trust 🦔

We had a lovely afternoon with the Wildlife Trust 🦔

We explored part of our Forest School area to find materials we thought would make good homes for some friendly hedgehogs.

Christmas Movie Morning 🍿🎥

Our children had a fabulous time at our Movie Morning on Saturday. We watched The Polar Express to give our parents a bit of undisturbed Christmas shopping time! 🤫

Introducing Brook the Elf 🎄

You won’t BELIEVE what the Postman dropped off for us today! 📮

A parcel with Brook the Elf inside. You may think you know all about these elves but this one came with a letter saying he had been sent to look out for children being kind, ready and safe!

The letter led us to our very own winter grotto with letters to write & games to play. What an exciting way to start December. 🎄✨

The Greatest Show 🌟

We visited our friends at Adcote School this afternoon to watch a special showing of their production, The Greatest Show.

An inspiring visit with some wonderful role models for our own little performers!

#schoolofopportunity

Mia hits the big time as Moana! 🌟🥥

STUDENT SUCCESS 🌟

Wow! Our very own Mia has landed herself the part of young Moana in the trailer for the upcoming film, Moana 2! 🌊

Mia attends dance club and choir at Bowbrook & has always shone as an outstanding performer. She is dedicated and motivated to better her techniques and is always practising in the playground. 🤸🏽

We are incredibly proud of her achievements and excited to follow her journey.

Well done, Mia! 👏🏻

You can watch the trailer below 👇

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Reading Buddies 📕

A wonderful opportunity for some of our students to read to an older pupil from Shrewsbury School today. 📕

It’s vital for our children to have good role models and we endeavour to continue great relationships and partnerships with other local schools.

Old MacDonald had a Farm 🚜

As part of Nursery Rhyme Week and to provide us with the opportunity to compare different animals, we had a visit from the Farm on Wheels. We were interested to find out whether they were carnivores or herbivores and used this information to compare and contrast with the animals we saw at Chester Zoo.

Pumpkin Soup 🎃

After reading our text ‘ Pumpkin Soup’, Miss Jones kindly bought her soup maker in and showed us how to make some! We were excellent helpers and most people really enjoyed it.

Senses in Science 👀 👃 🖐️

Using our bodies to be part of a science experiment this afternoon & put our senses to the test!
We used our: sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste to identify different foods.

Poppin’ Popcorn 🍿

Forest school was fantastic this afternoon. We talked about fire and autumn. We found that fires can be lit from dry pine cones. We then used the fire to pop our kernel seeds to make popcorn. 🍿

Boo-tastic Boogie! 👻

A spooky end to a super first half term at our Boo-tastic Boogie! 👻

We had lots of fun dancing & playing party games.

Have a great half term & we will see you all on the 5th November. 😃

Mini Chefs🧑‍🍳🍕

After our trip to Pizza Express last week, our mini chefs took to the Bowbrook Pizzaria this morning to prepare, cook & sell some delicious pizzas to their grown ups!

Room on the Broom 🧙🧹

Yesterday, all of the classes received a special invitation to a ‘ziggety, zaggety, zoom’ story in the hall. It came from a friendly witch! We were all very excited to see what it was going to be…

Two witches told us the story of Room on the Broom! We loved it! 🧙💚

Inspiring future leaders! 🌟

Kingfishers had a very serious meeting in the The 3-18 Education Trust Meeting Room this afternoon.
We spoke about what might be discussed amongst the grown ups and what ideas the children have to improve our school.

A Sky full of Stars ✨ 🎶

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At Bowbrook, we want our children to be confident communicators! In order to do so, we pride ourselves on using Makaton in our school to ensure all children have the best opportunity to communicate and interact effectively. 🙌🏼

Our singing assembly this half term has focused on the song ‘A sky full of stars’ by Coldplay – a fitting song for a school full of little stars. ✨

 

Autumn walk 🍂

Coats on and off we went for a (slightly soggy) autumn walk.
We spotted lots of seasonal changes; the colour of the leaves, conkers on the ground & some pumpkins and Halloween decorations around the estate!
We love getting out & about and are always very proud of our children’s behaviour.

Outdoor adventures ☀️ 🍃

We made it out into the sunshine this afternoon.
We looked around first to see what had changed. We were introduced to our new fire square and talked about being safe.
Then we had fun exploring. The children tried new opportunities and were excited to get their wellies on. 🌳☀️🌳

Experiments, rainbows and snails 🐌

What an afternoon! 🧪
The children loved our afternoon at The Priory school with Mrs Rayment in the Science lab!
We took part in experiments that made us go WOW!!!🤩 Making rainbows, colour changing milk and the children’s favourite watching the fire bubbles!
We also held some stick insects and snails, and managed to bring back to school with us some new friends… 🐌

Robots 🤖

What a fantastic afternoon learning how to create a sequence of instructions to programme a robot. It was great fun!

Habitat building!

We’ve been making enclosures in imagination playground. This week we have been learning new vocabulary of ‘habitats‘ and ‘liberate’. Some animals would be ‘ forlorn’ if they didn’t like their new enclosures so we included trees, climbing branches, swinging ropes and pools!
Can you guess which animal they are for?

Enabling environments to promote a love of reading 📕

A rich learning environment is something we are very passionate about at Bowbrook! Promoting curiosity, awe and wonder through an enabling environment means our children are inspired and excited to learn every day. Whilst our Caterpillar children are interested in all things bear related, we’ve enhanced our environment to promote storytelling and sequencing.

£500 raised for MacMillan Cancer Charity!

As part of our open classroom event this afternoon, we sold some delicious treats to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Charity.
We managed to raise £500 which we are incredibly pleased with.

The children loved showing their parents around the school & it was another great opportunity for the community to come together.

Who’s been eating my porridge?

Caterpillars are so engrossed in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears as well as other Bear stories!
We explored making porridge in the mud kitchen to feed to the bears. Then, we made our own porridge in the cookery room to try. We had 3 different toppings and we took a vote on which one was our favourite after thinking of different adjectives to describe the taste and texture. The sticky syrup was the firm favourite! Yummy. 🍯

If you go down to the woods today…

Following the interest of Bears, the Caterpillar children designed, made & enjoyed a Teddy Bear’s Picnic with some special friends they brought from home.
We enjoyed having a story from Miss Stone’s magic basket too. A wonderful sunny afternoon! 🐻

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