Current Events and News
Read this page to see what we have been up to recently at Abbey.
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We have been up to lots of exciting activities and events - read on to find out what we have been up to.
Football Team
Congratulations to our brilliant Y5 football team who got through to the final of the Y5 Cup on Wednesday 28th April 2010. They played at home against The Avenue Primary. The match was really exciting and our players showed great skill throughout. After going into an early lead and being the best team they eventually lost by 7-5. The boys showed a close team spirit and parents and staff who watched were incredibly proud of them.
Science Week
Children had a great time during Science Week, taking part in a variety of scientific activities which made science fun! The Early Years experimented with magnets, iinvestigating which objects the magnet would pick up. Year 1 predicted which objects would float or sink and then tried it out. Year 2 investigated what happens to water when it freezes and mixed vinegar and washing powder and were amazed at the result - an awful smelling foamy mixture! Year 3 made rockets by using a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and vinegar as well as learning about air resistance and streamlining. Year 4 enjoyed mixing water, food colouring and cornflour. They had fun letting the mixture flow through their fingers and squeezed it to make a solid. Year 5 investigated reactions by making slime, using colouring. The children had great fun watching the slime turn from a solid to a liquid and back again. Year 6 made lava lamps using oil and coloured water. They also used clay to make to make a volcano and put bicarbonate of soda in to watch it explode with vinegar. The children also investigated densities by making mixture of honey, water and oil and dropping in grape, penny and cork.
Year 2 Trip to Worthing
Year 2 had a fantastic day out in Worthing. The weather was perfect and the children had great fun collecting pebbles and shells on the beach. The children loved having lunch by the sea playing with their friends. The children looked for different features of the seaside and took a lovely stroll to the pier and watched fishermen in action.
Year 5 Trip
Year 5 had a wonderful time at the National Maritime Museum on 2nd October. They took part in an interactive workshop about the earth, sun and moon. They also visited the Astronomy Galleries where the children used telescopes and watched video clips of space and beyond. The highlight of the day was the visit to the planetarium where the children watched a show about the sky and were transported into space.
Year 4 Trip
Year 4 travelled by train to spend a fascinating day visiting Hampton Court palace. The children explored the Tudor kitchens, lost themselves in the maze, and visited the Tudor rooms and the Young Henry exhibition. The highlight of the day was actually meeting Henry VIII himself.
Year 3 Pizza Express
Year 3 were lucky enough to have an amazing experience at 'Pizza Express'. We all learnt how to make a pizza and how the restaurant was run. Our pizzas were delicious!!!
Year 3 Dance Workshop
At the beginning of December Year 3 went to Carshalton Boys with other schools in Sutton to learn two different dances. We had great fun learning Michael Jackson's Thriller Dance and are now all experts at the 'cha cha'.
Christmas Concerts
The nursery had their own Christmas sing-a-long this year. It was a special event where the parents could enjoy seeing their children perform their very first concert in the nursery environment.
The Reception and Year 1 concert, 'Ralph the Reindeer' was wonderful. The children looked fantastic in their costumes and sang, danced, acted, and narrated beautifully. The Year 2 and Year 3 concert was an amazing spectacle which had the audience mesmerised from the start to finish. The children showed how much they enjoyed performing and demonstrated such great confidence. Year 4 and 5 performed 'Baboushka' with fantastic singing, dancing and acting. It was a pleasure to watch the children really enjoying performing to the audience.
Singing Club
Our Singing club performed at the St Nicholas Centre on Thursday 17 December 2009. The children sang a medley of Christmas songs and entertained the shoppers. The performance was an absolute pleasure to watch and listen to. The children received lots of positive comments from parents and passers by. Thank you to Mrs Morris for all her hard work in leading the singing and organising the event.
Reception Book Time
We invited the parents to a book time session. Sure Start very kindly gave every reception child a bag which included the book 'Mr Big' and a poem book. We encouraged the parents to come in and read the books with their children. It was a very successful afternoon and the children loved their new books.
Year 6 at Glenthorne
Last Monday the Year 6 children enjoyed a musical morning out at Glenthorne high School. They went to see a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat performed by students from Year 12 all the way down to Year 7. The show was excellent; singing, dancing, costumes, lighting, and music, and loved by all.
Bedspread Afternoon
To end our topic 'Stories', we asked the children to come to school with a duvet, pyjamas and their favourite stories. After lunch, the reception teachers set up the classroom into a cosy environment and the children changed into their pyjamas. We read the children's favourite stories and made popcorn to eat whilst we switched on our listening ears and relaxed, listening to stories. We had so much fun!
Nursery Film Premiere
We have been learning lots of different Nursery Rhymes throughout the term. The children in nursery acted out the rhymes and then performed them brilliantly. The children were filmed and we invited the parents to come to our special 'Film Premier' to raise money for the Farm to visit in the Summer term. The parents contributed to their ticket entrance, brought refreshments and viewed the film of their children. On this day the children dressed up as their favourite nursery rhyme or story character too!!!!The DVD's then went on sale to continue raising money for the farm visitors. It proved to be a very successful day and the parents really enjoyed watching the children perform.
World Feast Day
On Friday the 12th February Key Stage 2 participated in a World Feast game. This saw year 4 and 6 teamed up and Year 5 and Year 3 teamed up to make food for a world feast. Teams were divided up into 5 continents and 2 countries. They had to work together to communicate and produce food by buying and selling, and bartering and trading resources with the other teams. It has as enjoyable way of learning about where the world's food comes from and how much food the county or continent has to feed their own people at the end of the day. Great fun was had by all as well as great life skills.
E - Safety Meeting
We feel it is vitally important to raise the profile of E-Safety as it is becoming one of the main ways of children being put at risk whether through mobile phones or over the internet. The children have been learning to be 'SMART':
S-SAFE
M-MEETING
A-ACCEPTING
R-RELIABLE
T-TELL
Our KS1 children used the 'thinkyouknow' website and watched a cartoon clip. They then made 'internet protector' badges. KS2 children discussed internet safety in more detail, looking at some internet 'nasties'- internet addiction, strangers online, chain emails, identity theft, not for kids, illegal downloading, attachments and cyber bullying.
Mark Dinsdale from Sutton Education Authority led an excellent parents' meeting about internet safety last week. Parents found it very informative so we will plan a further meeting for the summer term.
Year 6 - Cycling
A group of Year 6 children last week worked with cycle instructors to take their cycle proficiency test so they can safely cycle on the road. They developed observation and manoeuvrability skills, learnt the importance of cycle maintenance and were introduced to the Highway Code for Young Road Users. They spent every morning or afternoon learning these new skills both in the classroom and out on the road, they then had to take both a written test and a test on the road. Well done to you for passing!!!
Science Week
Week 3 was Abbey Primary's Science week, where we have been encouraging fun and creative science. Children have been exposed to a range of concepts, which they were able to learn and explore through investigations and experiments. Science is a subject which children can learn practically and independently! Children from Nursery to year 6 have been learning about Science, and have had lots of fun doing so!
Visit to Carshalton Boys
Year 5 at Abbey were lucky enough to be invited to Carshalton Boys Sports Collage for a basketball skills course and competition. The children learnt many new skills that helped them win the interschool competition v's Muschamp. All children displayed keen learning and excellent sportsmanship skills as they represented the school.
Year 2 Museum of London
This term Year 2's have been learning about the Great Fire of London, and had a wonderful trip into London to visit the Museum of London. On the way we saw many famous London sights as well as St Pauls Cathedral, which was destroyed during the Great Fire. We were able to see London in the medieval and roman eras, as well as seeing the Great Fire of London exhibition. We saw a fantastic display of how the houses were built in 1966, as well as seeing a real fire engine that was 300 years old! We had lots of fun, and the children were super knowledgeable on the Great Fire of London topic!
Trip to Rosehill
On 25th February as part of a geography topic, Year 1 went on a walk to Rosehill roundabout. On the way we were busy spotting human features like bridges and cars, as well as physical features of our local environment, such as fields and plants. We enjoyed hearing many noises on our walk from birds to traffic. We then compared our local environment to a different area when we returned to the classroom.
Year 3 WWII Day
Year 3 had a great day dressing up as evacuees for our World War II day. We had fun using drama to pretend how we would feel if we were in the 'Blitz'. We made our own identity tags and wrote a letter home to our parents.
Sutton Indoor Athletics Championships
We took a team of 10 girls and 10 boys from Y6 and Y5 to the SIAC. We had great fun participating in relays and obstacles courses and trying out indoor field activities such as the vertical jump and sitting throw.
Reception Art Exhibition
On Friday 12th March, Pink and Lilac class held an art exhibition in the school gym. For the previous three weeks, the children had been creating some beautiful art pieces to be sold. We had so much fun making them and both staff and parents admired them on the day. The children also put on a special singing show for parents to celebrate Spring and Mother's Day. Also on the day we held a raffle with gorgeous prizes and a refreshment table. Overall we raised £428 which will be put towards our Reception trip to Bocketts Farm in the Summer term. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all parents for their kind donations and we look forward to our trip.
Nursery Mothers Day Song
All the mummies really enjoyed listening to their children sing a special song to celebrate Mother's day. The children also made something special for their mummy. We hope you all had a lovely Mothering Sunday.