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Dancing in Barnaby Class

Lots of children in Key Stage two have been learning about dance in PE sessions this term. They are having a great time finding out about different techniques and the children are using their creative skills to create short routines.

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Stars, Friends and Gardeners of the Week

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Well done to all our wonderful Stars of the Week this week! It was fantastic to hear that so many of you have been putting in 100% effort during learning time. Our Friends of the Week were also celebrated for the extra kindness that they have shown during playtimes. All the children were also excited to learn about who had been chosen to sit at the Top Table on Friday! Well done to the people who were chosen. You have been demonstrating excellent behaviour in the dinner hall by remembering your manners and eating up all your food. This week the lining up award goes to Pickwick Class! Well done Pickwick Class for showing the rest of the class how fantastic you are at lining up and walking sensibly around the school. Finally our gardeners have won an award! They were given rosettes for the hard work and effort they have put into taking care of the garden. They have helped to grow many different types of fruits, vegetables and flowers. The garden is looking great. Well done!

International Evening – How lucky we are!

Thank you to everyone who came to the international evening and an extra special thank you to the mums, dads, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, friends of the school who made and shared a dish and the staff who made the evening happen.

The food was planned to be the focus and in many ways it was, with dishes from all around the world, lovingly made and absolutely delicious, each one of them and the food just kept arriving. It isn’t often that you can eat Moroccan chicken alongside Russian dumplings, Maldivian samosas and Japanese sushi!

The rain stayed away and we listened to Steel Pans from Trinidad and Tobago, an African Storyteller, Mr Huxley’s ‘Global Disco’,a marmite.v. vegemite challenge,a folk group ( thank you Henry’s dad) and a string quartet. Had we have spotted the Morris Dancers on Lant Street a little bit earlier, they would have been invited in too!

As families shared food and tables and the sound of conversation and happy children ( delighted to be ‘staying up late’) filled the main playground, we realised that the real star of the evening was our rather special and wonderful school community (children, families and staff). What a fabulous group of people you are!

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Stars of the week

Well done to our stars and friends of the week!

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Harvest and Bake Sale

We had a very successful ‘Harvest and Bake Sale’ last Friday after school. Thanks to some persuasive sales people we managed to sell out of all the goodies from the garden. Thank you also to all those that brought in yummy cakes to sell! We managed to raise £76.50 to go towards buying bulbs and tools for the garden.

Stars of the Week!

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Congratulations to this weeks stars and friends of the week!

Charles’ Creepy Crawlies

Charles Dickens has some new residents – Painted Lady caterpillars! The caterpillars are currently feeding off a special nutrient rich mixture which will make them grow large enough to then turn into a chrysalis. Once these have hatched into beautiful butterflies they will be briefly kept in a special netting cage before being released to enjoy the flowers in the eco-garden. Mrs Buchanan kindly organised this treat for Reception while off having a new crawly of her own. 

We Have A New Blog – www.charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk/blog

This is the last post from the office dickens blog – we are moving to www.charlesdickens.southwark.sch.uk/blog by 6pm this evening!

Our new blog looks and feels more like our website and you can access it via the school website as before. You will be able to subscribe to the new blog, just as you did for this one.

Our new blog contains most of our old posts – back to March 2012 and there is a link back to this ‘officedickens’ wordpress site so you can access the archive of photos etc from this academic year. This link is at the bottom of the list of school blogs.

Thank you for your continued support and interest in school life at Charles Dickens Primary School  – we hope you will continue to support us in our new virtual home.

The Inter-house Geography Competition – Try the KS2 Quiz!

This term Ms Adams, our Head of Geography, organised an Interhouse Geography Competition to encourage all pupils to learn more key geography facts. Everyone did brilliantly and lots of pupils won prizes for their new found general knowledge! A big thank you to Ms Adams for inspiring us!

Why not have a go at the KS2 quiz questions, including the year 5 and 6 ‘India Round’ to support their topic on India  – you will need a world map which you can download below. Use an atlas and google to check your answers! If you can’t find out an answer then post your questions in the comment box and we will try to help.

Let us know how you got on!

map of the world to label

World round

1)   Label the 7 continents on the world map.

2)  Label the 6 oceans on the world map.

3)  Label, UK, China, India, Australia, France, Russia, Brazil, Canada, USA.

4)  Can you name the capital cities of France, Spain, Ireland, Italy?

Picture round

1)   What do these anagrams say?     OREUPE      DINAI       LNONOD

2)  Can you name the country these national flags (see images below)  belong to?

3)  Which countries are these famous landmarks (see images below)  in?

India round

1)   What is the capital city of India?

2)  Name two other cities in India.

3)  What is the famous River in India called?

4)  Name 3 neighbouring countries.

5)  What is the name of the bay surrounding India?

6)  What is the ocean surrounding India?

7)  What city is the Taj Mahal in?

Complete these sentences:

India is the _____________ biggest county in the world

India is _____________ most populous county in the world

UK round

Download this UK map  – uk map to label

1)  What are  the four countries that make up the UK

2)  Label London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dublin, Cardiff on your UK map

3)  Label the two seas that surround the UK

4)  What continent is the UK in?

5)    Name 4 famous London landmarks.

6)  What is the name of the River than runs through London?