Sunday March 11th 2012

Welcome to another blog for Copthorne.
It's been another busy but enjoyable week at school. I always find it amazing that so many different things can fit into 5 days but it does make life at our school so interesting and inspiring.
Visitors from Peterborough
On Friday we had the pleasure of the company of 7 members of staff from Gladstone Primary School in Peterorough. They came to spend the day with us to find out about what makes our school so special and successful. The visitors spent a lot of time visiting lessons and talkng to our lovely pupils: asking them about their learning, the activities they are involved in, the opportunities for them to lead and support each other and the rewards they can achieve. Each of our visitors commented on the welcome they received and how keen our pupils were to talk to and help them. Our visitors are taking lots of good ideas back to their own school. Well done everyone!
Amazing Archers
Last Wednesday afternoon a team of archers from Key Stage 2 took part in a LAP competition. As usual our team gave an outstanding performance to become the LAP Archery Trophy winners for the second year running! This means that the only name on the trophy so far is Copthorne Primary School. In addition to achieving first place overall one of our archers achieved the 2nd highest individual score in the whole competition and another the 3rd highest. It was a fabulous team and individual effort on the part of all our archers. We are very proud of you.
Rotten Romans
Friday also saw the result of weeks of hard work by Year 3 in the form of two wonderful assemblies about the Romans and Britons. The assemblies taught us all so much about that period of history and showed how much Year 3 have learnt. The assemblies included a puppet show,  some great acting and very effective use of music! Lots of parents came to watch and everyone, including our visitors from Peterborough, were hugely impressed.
Cinema visit
This week 4 Beech will be visiting Cineworld to watch an animated film from Fance. The film has been dubbed into English and tells the story of a boy who finds a book in which, when opened,all the fairy tale characters come to life. This visit will help 4 Beech with their work in Literacy and be a well derserved treat for them.
Natural sculpture
This week, as part of their creative curriculum theme 'Growing', each of our Year 1 classes will be spending the day at St Ive's Forest Schools to make sculptures from the natural materials they find. Their inspiration is the work of the sculptor Anthony Gormley who is probably best known for his huge sculpture 'The Angel of the North' in Gateshead.
I am sure they will have a great time and we all look forward to seeing the photographs of their finished work.
Learning about the Library
Friday was indeed a very busy day as it also saw 4 Poplar visiting the Central Library. During their visit they were taught about how the library works and about all the different services on offer to them through the library. Everyone is now really looking forward to visiting the library to take out books and use the computers.

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Mrs Shepherd