Our trip to the cafe.

When the idea to visit a cafe for lunch on our last day first arose we carefully considered the location of the lunch as we wanted it to be close enough that the girls could hold a sense of ownership over planning to get there and also far enough away that it would be an exciting journey.

We also wanted to provoke a sense of occasion within the girls, as well as responsibility and fun, and so we separated the girls into two teams.

One team was responsible for researching what food was available, developing a menu and tallying up what each child wanted to eat on the day. The girls also worked out the cost of the food and were each responsible for earning the money they needed to buy the food by doing chores at home. We heard many stories about the wonderful things the girls were coming up with to help out around the house.

The second team was responsible for determining how we would get to the cafe. This involved locating the cafe through use of the internet, reading maps, establishing the fastest route to get to the cafe and which means of transport we would use. In addition the girls also researched bus timetables, bus stop locations and the costs involved when using public transport. The girls also worked busily to design and create individual bus tickets for everyone in the class, teachers included.

The journey of planning the cafe trip seemed to really foster the notion of team work and collaboration, and also provoked rich engagement in literacy and mathematical experiences.
The girls seemed to really value the level of responsibility that they were given in planning for this trip, and the work that they put into the different elements of the planning process is evidence of this. There was a real sense of anticipation present in the classroom the week leading up to the trip to the cafe and the girls seemed to really delight in the experience on the day, which saw many of our families come together to enjoy a lovely meal and celebrate what we have done this term.

The upside down tree.

"Why do you think that tree is upside down?" - Priya

Trolls Show

The Troll Show

Yesterday we attended the 'Trolls', a show put on by the year 6 girls. Our girls were spellbound and sat for an hour without moving.

The performance was exceptional and the girls had many questions on returning to the classroom; how sharp was the knife in the girls head? Is it a metal knife? is it a real knife that makes you bleed or is it a pretend knife? How did you cut off your arm or did they hurt their hand and it accidentally fell off? How did you make the star? Did you buy it from the shops or make it with real things?                   How sharp are the arrows?

This morning we made the show girls a beautiful thank you card.

There are stories in the windows.

Yesterday morning we visited our beautiful Chapel, where Reverend Moss shared with us some of the stories which are depicted in the stained glass windows. Here are some images of the girls absolutely captivated by Reverend Moss and the windows. Following on from this we returned to our classroom and the girls were invited to draw different aspects of the stories which were told.

There's no such thing as bad weather...

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

Assembly.

On Friday we had the privilege of leading the Junior School assembly, which was very exciting indeed! Particularly, because this meant speaking into a real microphone.

The girls worked very hard to each memorize their own greeting in a different language (these ranged from French to Japanese) which they shared with the school, as well as a line for the prayer of thanks which the girls wrote together and shared at the close of the assembly. We also shared a wonderful power point entitled 'a week in the life of...' which showed loads of photographs of the different things that we get up to in the Foundation Class.

We are so incredibly proud of the girls and how well they did and have received really positive feedback from people in all areas of the school.

We hope you enjoy these images and mums and dads if you captured any great photographs please email them through to us, we'd love to see them!

The puppet theatre.

Last week, Ella busily worked to create a mini puppet theatre.

Following on from this she was inspired to create some puppets to use with her theatre and this captured the imaginations of many of the girls in the class. Here are some images of the girls at work: