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Our bid to be an even healthier school!

31/3/2015

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As part of our program to improve the culture of exercise and healthy eating at East Tilbury Primary School & Nursery, we have taken part in various activities throughout the year so far. Below are some of those undertaken so far.

Earlier in the year, Year 4 children successfully completely a six week program based upon the following themes:

What is a healthy lifestyle?

What we eat, looking at food groups

Fun fitness sessions

Looking at different activities

What children want and what they need

How feelings affect behaviour


Early Years and Key Stage 1 children benefited from workshops on how to clean your teeth properly, from Grace the Dental Nurse, following on from the news coverage of growing cases of tooth decay in children of this age.


Later, the whole school took part in a sponsored skip in a bid to raise money for The British Heart Foundation.  This is a charity which raises money to support research into heart disease and which some of you know is a charity close to our heart.  Throughout the day children wore red and were encouraged to complete fitness tasks as Mrs Quasalbash ran a series of workshops with the children across the school.

Due to the amazing support from parents we were able to raise the total sum of £2189.69.

As a reward for raising so much money we were able to host the Juice Bicycle in school where children were given the opportunity to power a blender to make a refreshing healthy fruit drink for their breakfast.

To continue to raise awareness of the importance of eating healthily, we have also introduced stickers and bookmarks which children collect daily for choosing healthier options for their lunches.  These stickers are added up each week and a display in the Key Stage 2 hall shows which team eats the healthiest each week, linking into our current houses point system.  So far Cambridge and Bath are joint leaders but this could all change by the end of the year!

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Rave reviews for the Year 4 and 5 Spring Production!

31/3/2015

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What a wonderful way to mark our first Year 4 and 5 Spring Production in our new primary school. Our staging of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was tremendous, bringing together work done with the Royal Opera House through the Trailblazer project, featuring fabulous dancing, scripts written by our pupils, exhilarating singing and wonderful costumes and setting. Well done everybody!


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2HM - egg hunting on safari!

31/3/2015

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As we came to the end of our unit enquiring into the Central Idea that, 'Through the arts, people use different forms of expression to convey their uniqueness as human beings', we made some Easter eggs, inspired by some of the African prints and animals that we have been exploring.
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Delicious ice-cream...or not!

31/3/2015

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Children in Year 5 made ice-cream manually using just flavoured milk, sugar, ice and salt.

We made predictions about what we thought would happen, explaining our reasoning. We then observed and described how the milk changed state from liquid to solid in the process of making ice-cream.

5AA said that their ice-cream was delicious and everyone wanted to try the experiment again at home. Some people in 5KF said that theirs was salty - perhaps they accidentally put the salt in with the milk instead of in with the ice in a separate bag! Why don't you give it a try: Put half a cup of flavoured milk in a zipper bag with four tablespoons of caster sugar. Place this bag in another small food bag and tie it to give it extra protection from the ice and salt mixture. Put some ice and half a cup of salt into a large zipper bag, then place your small bag of milk mixture inside this larger bag. Seal the large bag securely and shake vigorously for five minutes. Carefully open your small bag, being careful not to allow any salty water to get into it as you serve and enjoy your ice-cream!
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5DC ready with great expectation

31/3/2015

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On Friday 20th March 2015, Year 5 joined the whole School as we prepared to witness the solar eclipse. We made pinhole cameras out of card to help us view the eclipse outside safely. Many people use pinholes to project an image of the Sun onto the ground and we had expected that the projected image would show the crescent of the Sun as the Moon gobbled up its disc. Unfortunately, the cloudy skies made it tricky to see the eclipse, however, we watched the eclipse live through the BBC Stargazing news. 

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Messy builders in 3HS!

31/3/2015

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We have been working in teams to build the strongest and tallest structures to support a chocolate egg. Sounds easy huh, but our building materials were marshmallows and spaghetti - exactly! This was our Science Week investigation and we had to think about the different forces, such as mass and gravity, as well as the strength and texture of the materials that we were using. Some people have asked whether we got to eat any of the materials afterwards...well what do you think? We are responsible scientists in 3HS!
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Our very own ice balloons in Year 1.

31/3/2015

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It has been an exciting week in 1CC.  It was wonderful to use our new interactive whiteboard to find out more about the Solar Eclipse.  We had a good look outside, although we noticed it was getting cold and dark, unfortunately the weather wasn’t quite playing fair.  

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Through the rest of the week we did some science experiments using ice balloons.

We noticed how warm water caused the ice to melt quickly, cold water or washing up liquid didn't seem to do very much. It was fascinating to use food colouring to help see the ice melt, finally we watched as we shone light through our ice balloons. 

All the children were very careful to avoid getting the food colouring on their clothes, Mr Powell will be more careful next time! We had so much fun and learnt how to make observations during experiments.


We have also been learning how to categorise things, how to tell the time and about finding fractions of shapes and quantities.
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Blow them away 6JD!

31/3/2015

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We experimented with making wind turbines and learnt about renewable energy as part of our Science Week investigations in March.
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Solar Eclipse...we were ready, but...

31/3/2015

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In 6JD, we joined with the rest of the school, ready to witness this momentous event on Friday 20th March, but it wasn't to be as there was too much cloud cover for us to witness the eclipse at first hand. Well, at least we got to watch live with the rest of the nation as the BBC broadcast spectacular pictures.
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A moment of wonder in Year 1 on Friday 20th March...

21/3/2015

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Year 1 joined the whole school as we prepared to witness the momentous occasion of Friday's solar eclipse - unfortunately the cloudy skies made it tricky to appreciate, but this didn't dampen our enthusiasm.
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Wow! This morning we were all very excited. Some of us could explain why we were so excited. We knew that today we were going to see an eclipse. We knew that we could not look at the eclipse as it could damage our eyes. We went outside and it was so cloudy that we couldn’t see much. We noticed that the temperature dropped as we all felt a bit cold. Some places in the country went very dark.

We also made our own eclipses out of circle shapes to show we understood how it worked.

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