This week, girls from Year 4 visited the Ashmolean Museum and Pitt Rivers Collection in Oxford to see ancient Egyptian artefacts up close.  Mummified cats, birds of prey and crocodiles seemed to catch everyone’s attention, as did the bandaged contents of cedar coffins which had been painted thousands of years ago - just as we’ve seen in books in class.  Our girls were especially adept at recognising real life cartouches, depicting the gods and symbols studied at school.  They were also rather taken with the dozens of funerary objects on display (e.g. models of boats and farming scenes), which showed them how the tombs of the nobility can also reveal much about ancient Egyptian daily life beyond palace walls.  Well done for conducting yourselves so beautifully and asking such probing questions in both museums, girls!

      Last week, girls from Years 3 to 5 took home their 30-day cardio challenge sheets; this project supports the work which they are doing in PE lessons.  Everyone should have started the challenge on Monday 7th October, with support and encouragement from families - who can even join them in their endeavour!

      The main objective of this initiative is to increase awareness of daily exercise, with the challenge running for two weeks before Half Term and the two weeks of Half Term itself, after which the girls should return their sheets to school and the best ones will be displayed on the PE noticeboard.

      I hope you are all enjoying the fitness challenge after the first week, and that you will demonstrate RESILIENCE by keeping it going for the next three!  💪🏻

Year 5 have been working collaboratively to develop their use of adventurous vocabulary, and in doing so they have created their own versions of nursery rhymes that our readers might recognise.

Click on the gallery to see examples!  👉

      Thank you to everyone who has given wellies to help re-stock our supply.  We're still on the lookout for adult sizes 3 to 7, and we won't refuse any watertight donations - thank you!  🙏