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8th November  2024

Great Wishford Primary School and St. Giles Church Café in Aid of Children in Need

We are thrilled to share the success of our recent event held with St. Giles Church Café, where the children from Fox class truly shone. Our young hosts guided visitors into the hall with grace and enthusiasm, ensuring everyone felt welcome and comfortable. They took great care in serving refreshments, making sure our guests had everything they needed.

Their positive attitudes and willingness to help were evident throughout the event, and we couldn’t be prouder of how they rose to the challenge. It was heart-warming to see the hall filled with so many members of our village community, all coming together for a wonderful cause.

The support from everyone was overwhelming, and we are delighted to announce that we raised an incredible £200 for Children in Need. This achievement is a testament to the generosity and community spirit of Great Wishford.

Thank you to everyone who attended, donated, and supported this event. Your contributions will make a significant difference in the lives of children in need.

We have a selection of clubs on offer in Term 2: 

Lunch time clubs

Monday: Crafty Club 

Tuesday: Recorder Club - come and learn to play a Christmas song on the Recorder

Thursday:Quiet Club - Lego and book club in the library 

Friday: KS2 Drama Club run by Year 6 children

After school clubs 

Monday: 3.30-4.30 - Sports Club. Gymnastics 

Thursday: 3.30-4.15 - VIP Club - Year 6 only. 

Friday: 3.30-4.30 - Fun Football Kick Around - See set dates

As ever, if you have an idea for a club, please contact the office.

This term the children will enter Collective Worship to the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.  This delicate and enchanting piece of music features the celesta, a keyboard instrument that produces a bell-like sound, which gives the piece its magical quality. The arrangement is characterised by its light, staccato notes and a gentle, flowing melody that creates a whimsical atmosphere. Different instruments, including strings, woodwinds and percussion come together to create this piece of music which helps us imagine the fairy-tale world and beautiful ballet of The Nutcracker.

What would you make?

This was the question I posed to the children during Collective Worship as we marked Remembrance. I gave four volunteers from Fox class a pipe cleaner each and asked them to create a representation of a weapon—something they associated with war. We then watched the BBC’s ‘Poppies’. During the video, we reflected on the impact of conflict and how comforting it was to see the poppies growing again after the war was over. We considered whether weapons were the best choice for the pipe cleaners or if we should have created something beautiful and peaceful instead. The children unanimously agreed that making something beautiful was a much better idea, and they transformed their weapons into flowers and hearts.

At lunchtime, the children from across the school chose to make their own flowers and love hearts to add to our wreath. Other children contributed colored-in poppies, and one even made a poppy using Lego. This is the final creation:

Children in Reception Class had lots of questions about the Poppy Mrs Johnson was wearing. After investigating Remembrance and thinking about what it meant, they decided to make their own as a group, with children suggesting the use of red tissue paper and where to display it in the classroom.