Avenue Primary Academy

It was a bugs life over in Panda Class! 🐛🐞🦟🪲🐜🪳🕷️ The children enjoyed some messy, sensory play with chia seed slime and dyed spaghetti whilst also learning to identify bugs with their communication board. Swipe to untidy!

Panda class at Explorer base created amazing instructions on how to plant a seed based on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk 🫘🌱

Miss Dyson from @sutton_music has been working with Year 6 using an IT programme called sound trap. They are creating a jingle which they will then use to make their own adverts. They watched an advert in this lesson and discussed how the music made them feel and how companies use sound to advertise their products. 🎶 🎼 🎶

This week in nursery their book of the week is: The Gruffalo 📚 To link to this they had the excitement of making Gruffalo crumble. They got stuck in using their hands to mix the ingredients, cooked it and then taste their hard work.

☀️ With the lovely weather finally starting to show, at the Explorer base we have been taking their learning outside. ☀️ With a range of activities to explore, including fine motor maths, Pandas have thoroughly enjoyed learning in the sunshine.

📚 Book swap 📚 On world book day our wonderful PTA team set up and organised a book swap for the children. On the run up to world book day children brought in books that they no longer needed to help create a book swap for each other. The PTA got in the spirit of the day and also dressed up and created an amazing display of books ready for the Children. Thank you for creating this event, all the children loved being able to choose a new book to take home.

📚 What an amazing world book day we had on Thursday! 📚 From the students to the staff the costumes around the school were incredible and there was so much effort and creativity put into them. The atmosphere around the school was magical and all the children loved seeing everyone’s costume’s.

Koala and Panda children over at our explorer base enjoyed their pancakes this week. They even got to order and buy from our pretend pancake shop, which they all thoroughly enjoyed 🥞 🥞

🌙 Ramadan Mubarak! - May this holy month bring peace and prosperity to all. 🤲 In after school club to celebrate and learn more about Ramadan they spent time making coconut and date balls. ☪️

In March our language of the month is Teluga

Rhino Class took place in a sitting volleyball tournament with 8 other local schools. They won some games and those they lost were only by a narrow margin. The children had worked hard over the half term to learn the rules and skills they would need to take part and represented the school brilliantly showing resilience, team work, perseverance and great sportsmanship.  They should be very proud of themselves! 🏐 🏅

On Monday we celebrated World Thinking & Founders day 🌍 It was wonderful to see so many of our students wearing their uniforms proudly.

To end the term and celebrate their topic of Lost in Space. Year 5 took part in the ‘Spectacular Space Show’. 🚀 They worked incredibly hard and performed a wonderful show for parents and carers. The teachers were very impressed with how they performed and perseverance they demonstrated. 🌍🪐☄️🧑‍🚀 Amazing work Year 5!

Year 1 had an exciting time learning about castles and the people who live in them. In history they found out interesting facts about our Kings & Queens. 👑 In their last DT lessons before half term they adored designing, making and evaluating their own castles out of cardboard. They thought carefully about the materials used to build them, ensuring they followed the criteria needed to represent what a castle is. The end results were amazing and they were so proud of what they had created. 🎨 🏰

Elephant class were very excited as they had the opportunity to take part in a curling competition against other schools in our trust. 🥌 The children had practised linked skills in the weeks leading up to the event, so were eager to put them into practise. Everyone involved focused really well on targeting the stone and as a result, we came third! Well done Elephants class. 🏅

To end the term our year 2 classes were busy in their DT lesson building moving vehicles. 🚗 They spent the morning building their models, being creative with their designs. Then the afternoon finished off by painting and decorating. 🎨 we are so impressed by all the different vechiles they made.

Year 5 have continued their science topic this week by building space rovers 🚀