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Year 4 Hampton Court Palace

Sun 29 Sep 2013

Year 4 had a fantastic day at Hampton Court Palace. They had a workshop to learn all about famous Tudor explorers and took part in some drama activities. This was followed by a tour around the Palace, where they even met Henry VIII himself!

Roald Dahl Dress-up Day

Fri 27 Sep 2013

A flashbunkingly gloriumptious dress-up day for the Roald Dahl Children's Charity. Here Big Chief Oompah Lumpah meets one of his mini Ooompah Lumpahs.

The winning class for co-ordinated and exceptional dress-up flair was 6W - who win a trip to the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden next week.

Well done to everyone!

For more great photos please visit the online gallery

Autumn Time!

Wed 25 Sep 2013

With our Annual Firework Extravaganza just around the corner Jelly Beans have been busy with their Autumnal display board. Adorned with leaf rubbings and prickly hedgehogs it sets the scene for a crisp Autumn night around the bonfire.

Just remember to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and other wildlife before you light it!

Lisa Rutland
Jelly Beans play worker

Bee Bunting Art Competition

Thu 19 Sep 2013

There has been an amazing response so far to our latest art competition, but more entries are desperately needed. The competition itself has been organised by High Wycombe Bee Keepers Association who visited Year 3 back in May. As an Association their key role as a charity is to promote beekeeping through annual beekeeping courses and educational visits to schools. We have joined many other local schools in designing the bee bunting for their Autumn Gathering in October. The winning entry will get a selection of bee goodies as well as a class visit from the education’s team who will bring along lots of bee related resources as well as an observation hive containing live bees.

If your child has not yet entered and would like to, there are more templates available just find me at break time. The last day to enter is Friday 4^th October 2013.

Mrs Rutland

CHRISTMAS STAMP COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Fri 13 Sep 2013

Back in July some of you may remember entering the Royal Mail’s Christmas Stamp Competition. As a school we entered over 80 beautiful designs ranging from reindeers to angels. The competition had a staggering 240,000 entries in total from across the UK. Sadly, we were unsuccessful in winning the competition but a gallery of the entries is now available on the website.www.royalmailstampcompetition.com/regional-finalists.

All the children who entered will receive a certificate for their efforts, it was great to take part in such an important competition and I look forward to seeing the winning stamps on our letters over Christmas!

Mrs Rutland

Rachel Demuth Workshop

Mon 02 Sep 2013

Members of the SNAG team enjoyed a really inspirational workshop with vegetarian chef Rachel Demuth in partnership with the Meat Free Monday organisation. Rachel owns a vegetarian restaurant and cookery school in Bath. She worked with the children making spaghetti vegetable salad with salsa verde, Vietnamese paper rolls and mango and kiwi salsa. Delicious! Rachel then held a session with our catering team to give them some ideas for our Meat Free Monday menus.

For more great photos please visit the online gallery.