Welcome to the Barasingha Page!

Welcome to Barasingha Class with Mr Togher and Mrs Litten and our teaching assistant Mrs Bell.  An exciting new school year awaits!  The children are impressing us with their enthusiasm, thirst for knowledge and impeccable behaviour.  They are a credit to you!

We have an exciting year ahead and we know that the children are going enjoy all the fantastic learning opportunities.  If you would like more information, please see the curriculum section of our website.  We strive for the children in our class to be hardworking, resilient and reflective.  We look forward to watching them grow and develop as learners as the year progresses.

We want children to develop a life-long love of books and we ask you to help us in this endeavour!  Please encourage your child to read daily and discuss their reading with them.  If you require any further advice on how to help your child at home please speak to us at the end of the day.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Our PE day is MONDAY.

Please send your child to school with a water bottle and coat every day.

Spelling homework is set on a FRIDAY and due in the following THURSDAY.

We really value our relationship with parents and we are always available to discuss any questions or concerns.  Please catch us at the end of the day or call the school office and we will return your call within the day. 

Here’s to another great year!

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Togher, Mrs Litten and Mrs Bell

September 2019

LATEST NEWS!

The Barasingha Twitter Page!

Please follow us and find out what we have been doing in the classroom. If you do not wish your child to appear on the Twitter pages please let us know.

Please click on this Twitter link to go to our page.

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Our Mayan Day

We enjoyed a fantastic day of History learning about the Mayans. We looked at lots of Mayan artefacts and learnt the importance of corn to the Mayan people. We had great fun learning about how chocolate was discovered and even got to try out authentic Mayan hot chocolate recipes - some tasted nicer than others!

Later on we learnt how to write our names in Mayan glyphs and partook in our first experience of the Mayan game ‘Pok a Tok’! All in all, it was a fascinating kick-start to our next learning journey!

You can find more photos in the Photo Gallery.

Setting Descriptions

The children were given the task of writing a setting description using an image as inspiration. They needed to zoom in on the detail and ensure they used figurative language with powerful adjectives, verbs and adverbs. You can read some super examples below.

A Celebration Of Our Learning

The children in Impala and Barasingha were very excited to welcome their parents/carers and families to our fabulous learning celebration! Our topic this term is Fairtrade and one of the tasks was to design, promote and sell a healthy breakfast bar. After doing research and taste testing, the children designed their own bars, packaging and posters. They then had great fun filming promotional trailers using iMovie and finally baking their product ready to sell.

It was wonderful to see so many join us in the hall to taste and buy the products and complete the feedback forms. The children really enjoyed sharing their learning and were very proud of what they had achieved.

More photos can be found in the Photo Gallery.

Time

We have been studying poetry and the use of similes and metaphors. Inspired by the poems they read, the children wrote their own. Here is a super example by Dawid; you can hear him read it by clicking on the Play button below.

Christmas Fun!

Although very busy, the end of term was certainly lots of fun! Four children from Barasingha did a super job at the school's Christingle celebration where they explained the meaning of the Christingle. Two of the class then carefully carried a lit candle into the hall in the procession as the choir sang 'Away in a Manger'.  Afterwards, we were so excited when Santa joined us during our party and we were very proud of all of the children when we joined the rest of the school for the Christmas singalong.

RE Week - Diwali and Hinduism

We began the week by welcoming back Sunita from the Indian Experience. In addition to a wonderful assembly where she retold the story of Rama and Sita to an enthralled audience, Sunita worked with the children in Year 3 and Year 4 to learn more about India, Diwali and Hinduism.

The end of the week focused on the Hindu festival of Holi, and the children in KS2 carefully considered how the Holi celebration makes use of colour and fire to celebrate changes in the seasons.  The children also considered how Holi represented the triumph of good over bad.

During the Holi festival, which next year will be celebrated in March, Hindus use coloured powder to throw at each other to signify the beginning of spring and to say goodbye to the darkness of winter.  This wonderful celebration was part of developing the children’s wider understanding of living in unity with ourselves and others and gave them a great insight into other people’s lives.

There are more photos in the Photo Gallery.

Stibbington

What a fab day we had!

We started the day by arriving at Nene Valley Train Station in Stibbington, where we were met by two ladies who introduced themselves as the children’s teachers for the day. They led us on to the steam train and took the register (using our new 1940’s names, which were the names of real evacuees from the war who were evacuated from London to Stibbington!) We then walked through the village with our teacher and stopped at different houses which were used as real evacuation houses during the war.

After that, we were taken to Stibbington Education Centre, where we took part in 1940’s-style school lessons. We created our own ID cards, learnt how to use a gas mask, practised our spellings using authentic pens, ink and blotting paper and enjoyed a break time on the school playground where we played with war-time playground toys!

During our spelling lesson, we were suddenly interrupted by an air raid siren and our teacher swiftly led us out to the school air raid shelter where we waited until the siren stopped. This really helped us to understand what life was like during the air raids in the war! We all thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Stibbington as it helped us to empathise with children who lived during the 1940s and taught us so much historical information! All in all, a fantastic day out for Years 3 and 4!!

You can find more photos in the Photo Gallery.

World War 2 Learning

What a great term it has been for both Barasingha and Impala! The children have worked with such enthusiasm and have wowed us with their ever-growing knowledge of WW2. The topic has been one that has captured their minds and imaginations. The children have been bringing in artefacts and photographs from their own family history, as well as some truly amazing homework projects.

It was wonderful to welcome Jack and Hevenle-Babi’s Great Grandad and Eliyana’s mum into school to talk to the children. The children loved listening to Ken talk about his childhood during the war and how he was evacuated from London. It really brought the topic to life and the children were brimming with yet more questions about the past - fantastic. Eliyana’s mum talked about what life was like for her grandmother growing up in Germany during WW2. A big thank you to our visitors for further enriching our curriculum.

Harvest Festival

Thank you so much to all who joined us for our Harvest Festival celebration - it was wonderful that so many of you were able to come. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! The children in Year 3 and Year 4 worked so hard to learn their lines and songs and what a great performance they did. 

We would also like to thank everyone who made a donation to the Grantham Foodbank which will be gratefully received.

Super Poetry!

We are really enjoying learning why children needed to be evacuated during WW2, and watched a film clip of people arriving at a train station during that time. We used an OSIE grid to explore the film clip and then created our own poems. You can hear a wonderful example below.

Music and Stories!

We have a wonderful time on Friday afternoons learning to play the violin followed by story time in the Wild Life Area!

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