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• Ethos Day at Westcliff

  Fri 25 May 2018

  On Friday 18th May we held an Ethos Day at Westcliff Primary Academy. Our focus was Pentecost. Reverend Alan and Reverend Dallas taught us that Pentecost is a Christian festival celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus' disciples.

  We also learnt how the disciples knew the Holy Spirit had come as it was not something that could be seen. There were signs of fire, wind and being able to speak other languages.

  We took part in different activities to represent these signs. we made fire collages using paint, tissue paper and glitter.

  We made our own kites and took them outside to fly them. This showed us there was wind around even though we couldn't see it.

  After lunch, we played some parachute games linked to the fruits of the spirit which are love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

  We then went to St Gregory's Church, we had a look at Reverend Alan's clothes that we will wear on Pentecost Sunday, we made prayer cubes using the fruits of the spirit and we sang a new song.

  We then came back to school to join in with assembly and tell everyone what we had been learning about

  

• Central HUB Reading Day

  Tue 24 Apr 2018

  Central Hub reading day – Tuesday 24^th April 2018

  • Aimed at year 6 children across all 5 Central Hub schools who were currently ‘working at’ the expected standard but were borderline in terms of achieving greater depth.
  • 31 children across the schools attended the day held at Chudleigh Knighton.
  • The day was a huge success and children were intrigued by the text used.
  • Activities were based around ‘Smith’ by Leon Garfield – a high level text which focused on a great deal of interpretation and inference.
  • The children were tasked to solve the mystery of finding out who or what the character of ‘Smith’ was by being given carefully selected snippets and extracts which included a range of information, descriptive devices and archaic language.
  • Children were observed debating their viewpoints using evidence from the text :

  Child 1 “I think that Mr Jones is the hangman and he doesn’t actually speak to Smith.”

  Child 2 “Yes he does look read it again it says here.”

  

• School Direct Teacher Training Event

  Thu 22 Mar 2018
  

• Snow Day Homework - 19th March 2018

  Tue 20 Mar 2018
  

• Schools Direct

  Fri 16 Mar 2018
  

• Events & Activities coming up ...

  Tue 20 Feb 2018
  

• World Book Day - Special Menu and Prizes

  Fri 09 Feb 2018
  

• School Direct Teacher Training Event

  Wed 07 Feb 2018
  

• Building Progress - January 2018

  Wed 10 Jan 2018
  

• New Starters 2018

  Tue 12 Dec 2017