Come and join us for the School Summer fair on Friday 5th July, from 3.30-5.30pm, in the playground.

On Monday 24^th June, Year 1 had a visit from History Off The Page, learning about the Seaside. Our day began with us learning how to bow and curtsey in a Victorian manner. We then imagined we were in a seaside town, and were helping the shop owners to prepare for the day ahead. We had the opportunity to make shell boxes, cone puppets, ducks (to play hook the duck), to design our own train tickets, role play in the café and decorate our own mugs - amongst other activities! 

After lunch, we all thoroughly enjoyed a Punch and Judy show, in particular the audience participation element! We also had fun being stall holders on the pier, and spending time visiting all the stalls and spending our money. 

It was a wonderful day, the children were fully engaged and absorbed by all the activities and our leader from HOTP was very impressed with the children's focus and concentration levels. 

A huge thank you must go to our parent helpers - we really appreciate you giving up your time to come and support us with our day.  

On Thursday 20th June, the Year Two children were joined by their adults for our  2 Can Learn. During this session, the Turtles and Chameleons followed their designs and created a minibeast hand puppet for a young child to play with. The children (and parents) dug deep into their Learning Toolkits to help them create their product. They used sewing and joining techniques to create their puppets and thought carefully about the colours and embellishments to ensure their puppet matched their design. The puppets looked amazing! Well done Turtles and Chameleons!

We were really delighted to have Ed from Mini Monsters visit us in Foundation Stage the other week. He brought lots of interesting mini (and not so mini!) beasts with him, including a huge tarantula, a corn snake, a very wiggly millipede and a giant African Land Snail. He also brought a bearded dragon, which lots of us stroked. The children asked lots of questions, and everyone behaved beautifully around the animals, which made us all very proud. After Ed had gone we couldn't wait to tell our friends what we had seen and draw pictures of the animals we had touched. 

Here at Orton Wistow Primary School, we recognise that success comes in all different shapes and sizes! We celebrate the children's achievements in school in the Achievements section of the newsletter and website.

Many of the children, however, are also achieving things outside of school.  We would like to recognise these successes too.

It might be that your child has passed a music or dance exam, gained a karate belt, starred in a show, volunteered, taken part in a sporting event, or done something that they didn't think was possible!

If you would like to share your child's achievements with us so that we can celebrate their success, please complete the Celebrating Success form which can also be found below.  Contributions will be considered for inclusion in upcoming editions of the newsletter.

We look forward to hearing about your children's extracurricular achievements!

This Week's Successes!

Last year, Migle embarked on her ice skating journey, and in under 10 months she has whizzed through all 10 levels of skate excellence courses. During that time, she won the Skating Star competition, took part in a sold out Christmas show Wizard of Oz, and Easter show Circus on Ice. Recently, she competed in Artistic competition, where she won gold in her category, thus securing a place in the national Artistic competition, which will take place at Milton Keynes ice rink on the 20th July. We wish her the best of luck!

Written by Year 5 Children