Christmas craft week!

On Monday we found out that we would be making special Christmas crafts all week. We made a reindeer bag by sticking a face onto a brown bag, colouring it in and drawing around our hands to make 3D antlers. We then put all of our work into this bag throughout the week.

The first set of activities we completed were Christmas song anagrams, which is where you sort the jumbled letters to create a word making the name of a song; some were really tricky and took us ages! Next we did snowflake number sentences and decorated our own stocking pictures with lots of nice patterns. We then made Christmas bookmarks that said 'Merry Christmas' on them.

Next we made dancing Santa's. We had to colour in all of the parts and then when we cut them out we had to put holes in each part so we could fix them together with split pins to make the joints move. We also made special cards in the shape of crackers and they had pictures of our faces in. We decorated the cards with glitter, sequins and felt tips. 

We made cone Santa decorations to hang on the tree. These were really hard and exhausting to make because it was really tricky to stick the cone shape together. Once you had made the cone body you then had to stick on his arms, legs, beard and belt. 

The final things we made were gingerbread shapes. We had to make the dough by weighing out flour, golden syrup, eggs, ginger, sugar and butter. Then we had to stir it which made us very tired! Next we rolled out the dough and cut into lots of different shapes. When we had finished we baked the biscuits for 10 minutes and after they cooled we could decorate them!

We hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and a happy new year!

By Adi and Owen

Christmas Christingles!

On Monday the ladies from Tesco came to help us make a Christingle each. They began by telling us the reason why we make Christingles, before demonstrating how to make it.

Sue told us that the orange represents the Earth and the red ribbon shows us all being bought together. We then put four sticks on the corners, these represented the four seasons. We put sweets and raisins on the sticks, although if we are vegetarian we only used raisins. We put a candle in the middle to make the world light up!


"I liked the activity because we get to use the candle safely with a grown-up and we get to eat the sweets!" - Tyler.
"I enjoyed doing this because it is something I have never done before" - Rayyan.



By Rayyan and Tyler

Merry Christmas!

In the month of December in Class 9 we decided to decorate our classroom into a Christmas classroom. To do this we put up a tree and decorated it with baubles, tinsel and things that we have made. We also put up a festive wreath and some lights to make our room look Christmassy and wonderful. 

We have a special job to do every day. If you try your best you get chosen to open one of our special Christmas boxes, inside you will find a fun surprise! Also you might get chosen to put the sticker of the day onto our Christmas sticker chart. 

This week we got to eat our school Christmas dinner - it was scrumptious! We got to eat brussel sprouts, carrots, roast potatoes, chicken and we even got Christmas tree choc ices for pudding.

We are also practicing lots for our Christmas play called 'Christmas with the Aliens!', and we are practicing saying our lines loudly and clearly like actors and singing all our songs beautifully. My favourite song is 'Well I Never!' - Tanai. My favourite song is 'We Three Kings' - Luca.

 By Tanai and Luca

St. Peter's Church

Last Thursday we spent the morning at St. Peter's Church. After phonics we walked up a big hill from school to the Church, it took us half an hour! 

When we got to the church we met a man called Ian who took us through the grounds. He showed us a special little door that was used by the Vicar in the past because it meant they had to bow to show respect as they entered the Church. Outside we also saw that the building had been made bigger as more people visit it and the colour of the stone changed. 

When we walked inside, the Church was gigantic! The ceilings were so high. First Ian told us about the things that were in the Church. Then it was our turn to do some work and we were given a booklet with things to find like the Font, stained glass windows and the Pulpit. 

Then we had to draw our favourite part of the Church. 'My favourite part ws the glass windows because they were really pretty.' - Imogen. 'My favourite part was the Pulpit because I like that everyone can hear you talk when you stand there!' -Manjot. We also had to write down the special celebrations that happen in a Church like weddings, services and Baptisms. 

Finally we ended our trip by having a drink and  biscuit, which were super yummy and gave us energy for the long walk back to school!

By Manjot and Imogen

STEM Day - all about chairs!

On STEM day we were set the interesting challenge of designing our own chair. This was so that we could get some ideas for Ridgeway's very own story chair! To begin with we all had to think carefully about the design for the back, the arms and the legs. 

Some children chose to do draw crowns, pencils and some of us even chose to put 'Once upon a Ridgeway time' on the back! "I chose to write a story on my chair because I thought children could read it before they sat down" - Humayd. "I chose to put some legs, hands and feet onto my design - I was trying to be  creative!" - Fiza.

On Friday we took some of Class 9's best work with us to school council, where we all sat and looked at the different designs. Miss Doyle and Miss Coburn listened ccarefully to everyone's opinions before gathering all of the best ideas onto one design. 

<----- The final design is AMAZING! Everybody loved it when it was revealed in assembly. "I really likes the different books at the bottom, especially the Three Little Pigs because there is something special and secretive about it" - Fiza. "I think the R for Ridgeway is excellent!" - Humayd. 
Miss Coburn is now going to send the final design to a wood-carver so he can begin making our story chair. We can't wait to use it! 

By Fiza and Humayd.