WILSON WAY Issue 1 2016/2017 October 2016

Year 5 visit River & Rowing Museum

On 22nd September all the children in

Year 5 went off to Henley River and Row-

ing Museum.

The children

did some ex-

periments that looked at how building

on land affects the rate of flooding.

They also looked at erosion, transporta-

tion and deposition and how water

soaked through some rocks but not

through others.

They walked down the river to see dif-

ferent tributaries, the lock and the weir.

When they returned to the Museum, they had a look at Sir Steve

Redgrave’s boat and all the Olympic equipment.

Year 6 learn about

Evolution

On Monday 10th Octo-

ber Rob came in to

teach the Year 6 chil-

dren about the evolution of man.

They learnt that man had evolved

over 7 million years ago - they

looked at replicas of ancient skulls

and tried to see the similarities

and differences between then and

School Council Elections

On Friday 7th October School Council

Elections were held. The children had

presented their manifestos to the school

during the assemblies on Monday and

Wednesday and all the children from

Years 1 - 6 voted. The elected School

Councillors are all from Year 6 and are:

Tiago, Michelle, Holly, Claudia, Nicole, Julia, Alfie, Luke, Gracie

Year 6 - Bikeability

On 5th and 6th October

22 Year 6 children took

part in Bikeability to help

them understand the roads and how to

ride and look after their bike.

Second Hand

Uniform

If you need to buy school uniform items and are struggling with the cost, we may be able to help. We have a small stock of donated and unclaimed lost property items (all freshly washed and with plenty of wear left in them) which can be passed on to those who need them.

Please email wilsonschooluniform@yahoo.com saying what is required, and the size of the child, and we will help wherever possible. Please note that this is not run by the school office, and you may not get an immediate reply to emails. Equally, if you have any outgrown uniform to donate, we would be very grateful. It can be left at the school office and will be passed on or sold at one of our second hand

The local PCSOs are con-

tinuing to visit and this

term have taught the chil-

dren about Internet Safety

and how to deal with

A lot of letters, forms and newslet-

ters will now be sent to you via

email. Please let the office know if

you are not receiving the emails and

they can check the address with you.

We start the year by

profiling our new Year 4 J K

Rowling teacher, Mr Silk

Name Lee Silk

Place of Birth Portsmouth

Family 1 son

If you didn’t work at Wilson,

where would you like to

work/second career choice?

Football Player

Where was your last

holiday?

Berlin

What are your hobbies? Playing Sport

What is your ideal night

out?

Dinner/Drinks/Cinema

with Friends

Who would your 4 dream

dinner date guests be?

Michael Owen, Denzel

Washington, David

Beckham, Will Smith

Favourites:

Film

TV Programme

Song

Meal

Chocolate Bar

Sport/Sports Player

Book

Goal

Scrubs

Hometown and Right

Above It

Fajitas

Cadbury’s Caramel

Football /Michael Owen

Steven Gerrard

Autobiography

Where would you like to

time travel to?

Year 3000

Life Education Bus

At the end of September the Life Education Bus

visited us. All the classes went to visit and

were taught age appropriate lessons including

topics such as Friends, It’s Great to Be, My

Wonderful Body, Meet the Brain, Feelings, De-

cisions, Taking Care and All About Me!

Other events this term include:

Year 5 visit to Thames Water Sewage Works

Year 6 visit to Natural History Museum in Ox-ford

Year 5AH drawing by the River Thames

Reception Classes to Ella’s Kitchen

Robotics Club for Year 6

10 budding engineers started at the Robotics Club, held on a Tuesday in the Art Studio. They learnt how robots work, how they can “see” and how they are programmed. They designed differ-ent grids for the robot to follow and then, in groups, designed and tested a big maze for the robot to solve. Best of all, it all worked! Each en-gineer received a folder containing all their work and received a certificate from the Deputy Head, Mrs. Daniel. Everyone had a good time!

For more information: http://robotics.wilsonblog.net/

Year 6 Football Tournament

On Tuesday 27th September, Wilson

hosted a year 6 Football Tournament.

Other schools taking part were Oxford

Road, Coley and Palmer Academy. All the teams played

one another and Wilson did very well - they were runners

up.

Ancient Egyptians for Year 3

Year 3 had an Egyptian day on

Wednesday 5th October. They all

dressed up as Ancient Egyptians or Egyptologists and were greet-

ed by Steve and Sally from Portals to the Past. They car-ried out various workshops including measuring people's

heights using Royal Cubits and a quiz where the children had to collect the information from information

boards. In the afternoon, a big show was held which

included killing a Pharoah, mummifying and having a fu-neral procession. It was an excellent day: everyone had

fun and learnt a lot.