St Mungo’s Natty Hat and Silly Wig Day
The whole school showed their support of St Mungo’s charity for the homeless by turning out in an amazingly colourful and inventive array of head gear. Amongst the highlights had to be the organiser of the day’s events Miss Kuit who sported a very avant garde Mohican style wig! Thank you to everyone who helped raise over £220 for St Mungo’s. (The longship in the background of the Form 1T picture was made by Archie Turner over the weekend!)
A Pre-Prep Special Delivery
A fantastic post-Christmas treat arrived for the children of Reception and Nursery! A huge thank-you goes to the Friends of Cundall for funding some new play equipment for the EYFS outdoor area. The children have braved the cold temperatures this week to enjoy playing on the new bikes, exploring the new farm and fire station sets and even had a duck race on the water channelling equipment, even if the staff did have to melt the ice first!! The children can also look forward to the introduction of other new items as the term progresses such as den making equipment and large scale construction sets. In addition, the Friends’ donation has funded some small world and role play resources. PP2 are already using the Space resources as a prompt for learning about Space and as inspiration for story telling and writing.
PP2 visit Yorkshire Museum and Observatory
On Tuesday 21stJanuary PP2 went to York to learn more about Space. The trip began in the Cosmodome where the pupils travelled through the solar system investigating the planets and stars. It felt as if they were amongst the stars, but all of the spinning made them quite dizzy! The children learnt lots about the planets, including the fact that the rings of Saturn are made of ice and the rings of Neptune are made from space dust! They found out that Venus is the brightest planet and Jupiter is the biggest planet with the most moons. Next they went into the Observatory to look at a Victorian telescope, which has cross hairs made from spider web! The pupils discovered how it works and that a new star was found using this telescope. A fantastic day…. Out of this World!