We held our Spring Grounds Day on Thursday. It was a beautiful day to get out in the Spring sunshine. We are so grateful to our amazing team of parents and other volunteers, including Rev. Clive and representatives of Billingshurst Lions who came out in force to work hard on our environmental area. THANK YOU
Our thanks go to Dee Tickner from Henry Adams who came into school again this week to judge the incredible entries into their World Book Day Competion - to make a well-know book character using a recycled cardboard tube/s together with other reclaimed materials and other items you may have at home.
Thankyou to eveyone who entered and well done to our competition winners. One of the amazing creations will now be entered into the Chichester Festival Theatre competition to win Theatre Tickets.
This week Andrew, Nicola, Hope, Wilfy and Jeannie visited us. They are on a journey of a lifetime cycling around the world. They started from their home near Hobart, Tasmania over 1 year ago, travelling through New Zealand and then South America. They are now spending time in the UK before travelling on through Europe.
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We welcomed members of the Billingshurst Lions into school this week with lots of beautiful books. Every child had the opportunity to go into the school hall and select a new book to take home and keep. Thank you to the Billingshurst for this opportunity.
Thankyou to Mr Ellis who came to visit us today with his very big and shiny green John Deere Tractor. Many of the children got to sit in the cab and some even sounded the extremely noisy horn!
On Wednesday a group of Year 5 and Year 6 children visited the Weald School to take part in PE event with children from other schools in our locality.
As part of our Mental Health Awareness day on Thursday 10th October, our children in Years 1-6 took a brain break as they watched a brilliant theatre production of The Secret Garden presented by M&M Productions. The children really enjoyed the brilliant performance and the fantastic singing.
This week at Forest School, Squirrel Class had lots of fun making Hapa-Zome flags. Hapa-Zome is a Japanese term meaning 'leaf-dye. '
Snowy days are very rare in Plaistow so when there was snow at school on Wednesday, the enjoyed wrapping up warm, getting outside and having fun!
It has been a lovely final week of term at Plaistow and Kirdford . We finished the term with our PAKSA Awards Assembly, together with songs from KS 2, KS 1 and a short entertainment from the staff team! We then had a very special visit from Father Christmas who gave all the children a gift. Merry Christmas from us all at Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School and our very best wishes for 2023.
The winning entry into the competition really impressed the judges. It was an excellent creation made with recycled material and depicted a night time scene of Father Christmas in his sleigh pulled by his reindeer, flying through the night sky. The sky was even lit up with little fairy lights.
This term we have welcomed Kim Venter to our school to take our After School Art Club . The children have worked really hard and produced some really amazing work. We are so proud of the talent we have in our school.
Today we held our first proper Sports Day for 3 years and it was brilliant. After all the races, we held our Jubilee Celebrations with The National Anthem, Country Dancing and Staff Horse Race! Thank you to all our amazing children and families for making it such a special day.
On Monday we held a fundraising Mufti-Day for Ukraine. The optional theme was blue and yellow. The School Hall was a lovely bright scene of colour (mainly blue and yellow)! Thank you to all our families for their donations. All money will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine.
The School Hall was full of song on Friday evening when many of our children returned to school for the first movie night for over 2 years and what a movie it was - Sing-a-long-Encanto
…We Don’t Talk About Bruno, no, no, no …..!
Today, our children were able the enjoy their Christmas Lunch with their class in the School Hall. We had 4 sittings to ensure we were Covid secure. All the children were able to pull a cracker with their friends - our thanks to PAKSA for providing the Christmas Crackers - there were lots of very silly jokes inside!
We were also raising money for Save the Children with our Christmas Jumper Day - thank you to all our families for their very kind donations.
If you are making pancakes during half term, the most important things to remember is these:
Be safe! You should not be using a cooker without the help of a grown up in your home!
Be safe online!
Don't forget that you should always be careful clicking on links next to videos. If you aren't sure ask your mum or dad.
We hope you all have fun making pancakes next week!
This morning, a very special visitor took a little time out of his busy schedule to visit our younger children. Father Christmas came along and socially distance visited Robin Class, Squirrel Class and Hedgehog Class in the school playground. He brought small gifts for each of the children which the class teachers then handed out. Thank you Father Christmas for visiting us this morning.
