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Here is a photo of us all dressed up in red last Friday in aid of Comic Relief.  Thank you to you all for your generous donations.  We had great fun in the hall. It was hard work dancing for 20 minutes! Here are some of our moves...

Today we went on a walk to see what was growing around our walk. It was interesting to compare this with what we saw back on our Winter walk. We could see that there are things in the process of growing in our vegetable garden. The Forest School area looked quite bare. Jessica made a good comment that if we come back in the Summer things might have grown. Freya spotted that there were some buds developing in these troughs on the playground. However, there were plenty of beautiful Spring flowers on display in the flower beds at the front of the school.

Today, we worked in small groups to plant some potatoes in the vegetable garden. Firstly, we had to dig a hole with the trowel. We had already completed the ’chitting’ process. As you can see the   potatoes have started sprouting. This should mean that we get a good crop once they are planted. We covered the potatoes with soil and gently patted it down. Then we lightly watered the soil. Now it is a case of giving them time to grow and waiting to harvest them.

We looked at James Carter's website as a class and had great fun reading through and performing lots of his poems. We really liked the poems that are written in the shape of what the poem is about like this football one. What Can You Do With A Football ? Well... You can kick it you can catch it you can bounce it – all around. You can grab it you can pat it you can roll it – on the ground. You can throw it you can head it you can hit it – with a bat. You can biff it you can boot it you can spin it you can shoot it you can drop it you can stop it – just like that! Copyright © James Carter From Journey to The Centre Of My Brain (Macmillan Children's Books, Jan 2012) However, are favourite one of all is... Funny Faces! Can you do a big smile? Can you do a wink? Can you do a little nod? Can you do a blink? Can you shu...

So here are the results of the Children's Mental Health Week poster competition... In first place was Milena. Our runner-up was Rawdon. Well done to Milena and Rawdon but well done to all of the children for entering the competition. We had some really super entries.

We were lucky enough to have a visit from a member of The Dogs Trust in Evesham today.  She brought with her a cuddly soft dog called Biscuit.  She told us all about the importance of walking your dog, brushing your dog, playing with your dog and even taught us how t o pick up dog poo!  We found this very funny!  We have lots of ideas for our writing on Friday now.

We had a busy week exploring this year's theme 'Healthy: Inside and Out.' Mrs Gent kicked off the week with an assembly to the whole school, making us think about what makes us healthy and telling us that being healthy isn't just about looking after our bodies but it's about looking after our minds too. Back in our class, we had a great time sharing our Show and Tell with our friends. Thank you so much for helping us at home by completing the Show and Tell information sheets and for all of the generous donations too. Lastly, we all took part in a poster competition. We had to design a poster about something we had learned during Children's Mental Health Week. On Thursday, we will find out who was the winner and runner-up in our class so watch this space...