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Last week, our school celebrated British Science Week under the theme, ‘Connection’. Throughout the week, children were exposed to a variety of activities that had them linking Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to their curriculum. They were engaged in Spelling Bee, Science Quizzes, Debating and Poster competitions. We ended the week with class exhibitions where parents were invited to see all the beautiful work the children had done in school. The week was a success as the children got a chance to develop their scientific skills and most of all their self- confidence.

World Book Day is one of the highlights of our school calendar at Hewens Primary School! During World Book Day, we celebrated authors, illustrators, books and the joy of reading. The children also got to dress up in their favourite book character costumes! Let’s take a look at some of the characters we had this year!

To help make World Book Day special – and to encourage reading for the rest of the year too – please download the free World Book Day Family pack which includes tips and tools to help your child develop a reading for pleasure habit, and find the joy in reading!

You can download more fun World Book Day resources here: https://www.worldbookday.com/resources/ 

To kick off the start of Schools’ Football Week, Hewens hosted its first, Football Bingo! The activity involved children selecting their chosen number from 1 to 100 before a spinning wheel generated the winning number! As the saying goes, ‘ You have to be in it, to win it!’ Well done to the lucky children, who received a Premier League 2023 Official Sticker Album along with two sticker packets! Also, don’t forget to check out next week’s school newsletter for the results from the Key Stage Football Tournaments.

On Tuesday 17th January, our school choir journeyed to The O2 arena, to be a part of the Young Voices Concert. Our children sang and danced in unison with over 8000 other choristers to the delight of the audience. Hit songs from various genres ranging from the swinging sixties to present-day melodies were bellowed in sweet symphony.

This term, Little Acorns have been busy learning new sounds and practising to write them. Children have been encouraged to develop their phonics skills by taking part in daily reading activities in school and at home, supported by parents, guardians and carers. They have also improved their numeric skills by focusing on identifying quantities and being able to sort amounts into greater and less than categories. Children were encouraged to use cubes to match the pictures and use one to one correspondence to identify which amount of cubes is more or less.