Children in Need

A Fantastic Fundraising Event!

Once again the whole of the junior school have done us proud this week with their participation in fundraising activities for Children in Need.

Events started yesterday with the year 4 adult raffle where some incredible prizes could be won. Following this, a year 5 and 6 Movie Night was held in the school hall. This had an amazing turn out and proved to be quite popular. All the children had a great time watching Monster Family and eating popcorn.

Today, the fundraising continued with our Pudsey Sale in the school hall. All children were able to come and buy cakes from the year 5 bake sale, have a go on the year four raffle, vote for their favourite year 5 show stopper cake, guess how many sweets/lego/chocolates were in the jar, vote for the year 3 teachers to have their faces painted and buy their own Pudsey merchandise. There was a great atmosphere in the hall throughout the morning and it was fantastic to see all the children getting involved. 

Back in their classrooms, all the children spent the day completing Children in Need themed activities including, dotty artwork, raps, talented shows and year 5 even completed a sponsored silence!

At the end of the day, the whole school gathered in the school hall for the Big Reveal Assembly, where the total that each class and year group had raised was revealed. I am extremely pleased to say that thanks to all your donations the junior site managed to raise a massive total of £2435.40 for the cause. There is also a healthy donation coming in from the infant site who have also been fundraising for Children in Need today. A big thank you to all of you for supporting this cause and making the day a huge success! 

Spotacular Fundraisers!

Children in Need at Alderwood Juniors 

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who helped the school fundraise for Children in Need. Today was a fantastic, which the children all enjoyed. 

Our fundraising started last night with year 6 holding a Big Pudsey Quiz in the school hall. Thank you to everyone who attended and struggled through some challenging questions! 

During Children in Need day, the year groups took part in lots of different activities from writing raps to making masks to Pudsey art work. As well as this, all children came to the Pudsey sale in the hall, where they could buy their own Pudsey merchandise or spend their money on tasty treats. Finally, to end our day, we had our big reveal assembly where we announced our fundraising total. 

I am very pleased and proud to announce that our total currently stands at a massive £2128.46!

Well done and thank you to all our Spotacular fundraisers and Pudsey helpers! 

Children In Need 2016

Children In Need

Today Year 4 had a fun day raising money for Children In Need, Each class took part in a variety of activities. You can see what we got up to below!

4G

4G set up a funny photo booth as well as running laps of the playground. The class ran over £400 laps of the playground!

4J

4J painted lots of pictures and carried out a sponsored silence! They were all very relieved when the hour was up!

4F

4F filled a Pudsey outline with lots of 1 ans 2p coins!

Thank you to everyone who sponsored us and helped us to raise lots of money!

UNICEF Day For (Climate) Change 2011

We are the world...

Throughout the school today we have been learning how changes to our world's climate is affecting the rights of children around the world and especially in the South American country of Guyana.

In Guyana, the children suffer when annual flooding stops them from attending school, having access to clean water and washes away their homes. Later in the year, the same children suffer through periods of extreme heat when the rivers dry up and water becomes scarce.

In Year Six, the children explored the affects of climate change through mixed-media sculpture. Class 6L made an incredible model of Guyana using only sugar and rice - the main exports of this country. In 6LE, the children created weaving depicting the way in which Guyana's landscape is changed during the flooding and drought seasons.

We have all learnt so much today - we CAN all make a difference. Climate change is everybody's responsibility so:

SWITCH OFF, RE-USE, REDUCE, RECYCLE, WALK

Elvis was in the building......

All the school got dressed up in spots or stripes or as a celebrity today in aid of Children in Need. Very apt as year 5 have been studying the difficult plight of children in Victorian times.

Year 5 pupils came in an assortment of spotted and striped fashions and celebrities unknown to Mr Edmunds. Kesha ? Selina Gomez?

No fashion police were involved in today's fun fund raising.

Christmas cooperation with Connaught.

On Wednesday morning the year six classrooms were empty, no hardworking pupils or staff were to be seen. Could it be that those strict Victorian teachers, Mrs Lloyd and Mr Edmunds had given out a dreadful punishment to the upper school?

Well, no the reason was not sinister at all.... With the Christmas fair rapidly approaching, Year 6 had been invited by our link secondary school, Connaught, to join them for a morning of packed full of design & technology /ICT.

The schools have been collaborating to make pencil pots to sell at Newport school fair. Year six were split into three groups which rotated around the different tasks. Using the D&T workshops, pupils were given "hands on" experience of the pillar drill and electonic lathes. Miss Land, Head of D&T, briefed the children on the safe use and operation of the machinery. Soon the wooden pencil pots, customised to hold six pens/pencils, began to take shape.

The task of publicising the Christmas pencil pots was done in the spacious ICT suite where pupils, ably assisted by Mrs Williams and some of her year 7 pupils, designed some eye catching posters to attract potential pencil pot customers .

This hard work in the workshop was followed by an energetic work out in the gym however it was not only the body that was exercised in this session. Children were given some tough challenges, using various items of PE equipment. The value and importance of listening and team work were highlighted as can be seen in the photographs. A fun time was had by all under the guidance of Mr Munnings from School Sport Partnership.

All to quickly the morning came to an end, the mission to manufacture the pencil pots had been accomplished. It was a great experience to visit and work at Connaught, with many former Newport pupils keen to greet their former teachers and schoolmates . Many thanks to all the Connaught staff who made us feel so welcome and to Mrs lock for organising the visit.

Just a reminder that these wonderful pencil pots will be on sale at the Christmas Fair on Thursday 2nd December at 6:15pm.