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Burton Hathow Preparatory School
Odder Farm
Saxilby Road
Burton
Lincoln LN1 2BB
We cannot believe we are halfway through the summer term already!. Our topic is ‘Back to the Future’ and the children have thoroughly enjoyed travelling right back to the Stone Age! They were immersed from day one, when the reading area turned into a cave and the children were cooking fish to eat for their supper on the campfire and wearing animal skins to keep warm. They created stone shelters and decorated large pebbles with numbers to use in the maths area. They looked at the first drawings and created their own woolly mammoth pictures which we have displayed on our class ceiling. They made paintbrushes from sticks, grasses and plants being foraging for materials to create paints. These were then experimented with out in the garden area, some with more success than others. The children loved finding out about Stonehenge and lots of research has gone into this.
Moving on the timeline we have discovered lots of information on her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, with budding fashion designers creating her an outfit and of course the matching hat! Taking us back to our own childhoods the children made mud cakes and puddings and added some beautiful floral decorations to symbolise the Platinum Jubilee Pudding competition, and what wonderful creations they made. The children have read instructions on how to wash a woolly mammoth and then used these skills to make their own set of instructions to make jam sandwiches. All celebrated with a wonderful tea party. Decorating biscuits fit for royalty was a firm favourite with icing and ‘glamour gold and silver cake decorations’ being the perfect resource.
After coppicing some willow whips from the bottom of the sports field the children learnt how to remove the leaves in one go before weaving the whips to form a crown. The children had lots of ideas which decorations were going onto these, and they were all very individual. Now who could have thought the humble cardboard box would cause so much excitement in the classroom, well this selection did! Just look at what they created, Buckingham Palace, complete with flags, which stands well beside the peg Beefeaters, guarding the front.
We hope you have a lovely Spring Bank holiday and look forward to seeing what you all did to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee.
Miss South and Mrs Bowden
Fun and festivities with a generous helping of good old fashioned learning 10 December, 2024
Wow, what a week of festivities, and we are only just beginning! There have been piano keys twinkling and sugar plum fairies twirling as lower […]
First day of term—Nursery and Main School
School Council Meeting 1.15pm (Y1-6 School Council Members)
Year 2 Maths Trip 9am-11am
UK Chess Challenge Begins
U9 Netball v St Hugh’s (A) - pm
Open Morning 10am-12noon
U9 Football v Handel House (H) 2.15pm; Lunar/Chinese New Year Celebrations in Nursery (all week)
Lunar/Chinese New Year Assembly; International Lego Day (whole school); Hot Chocolate available at 11am (R-Y6) £1 in aid of Wildline Wildlife Sanctuary
U9 Football v St Hugh’s (A) – 2pm; U11 Mixed Netball v Handel House (H) 2.15pm; Visit from Wildline Wildlife Sanctuary (School Council)
Mental Health Week; U9 Football v Ranby House School (H) 2.15pm; Year 1 and 2 Parents’ Evening 4-6.30pm
Nursery WOW Event 9am-10.30am followed by Stay and Play 10.30am-11.30am; Hot Chocolate available at 11am (R-Y6) £1 in aid of Wildline Wildlife Sanctuary; Sri Lankan Independence Day – Nursery
U11 Football v Highfields (H) – 2.15pm; U9 Mixed Netball v St Hugh’s(A) 2.15pm
Y3-6 Parents’ Evening (1 of 2) 2.45-4.45pm
NSPCC Number Day - Nursery
Y3-6 Parents’ Evening (2 of 2) 5-7pm
International Science Day—Nursery
Big Schools’ Birdwatch (R-Y6); U11 Football v St Hugh’s (A) 2.15pm
February House Singing Competition (R-Y6) - 2.15pm
February Informal Concert 2.15pm (R-Y6); Main School closes at 3pm. No after school clubs; Half term begins.
Second half of term begins; U9 Football v Handel House (A) 2.15pm
Enrichment Day (R-Y6)
U11 Hockey v Ranby (A) at Worksop College 2.30pm
U9 Netball v Ranby (A)
U11 Mixed Netball v St Hugh’s (A) 2.15pm
World Book Day—whole school
U11 Netball v Ranby (A) 2.30pm
U9 Football v St Hugh’s (A) 2.15pm
Open Morning 10am-12noon
U9 Football v Highfields (H); Chess Challenge Prize Giving Week
U11 Netball v Wellow (H) - pm; U11 Football v Wellow (A) - pm; Nursery WOW event (Wild in Our Woods) 2-3pm—parents welcome; Nursery Stay and Play 3-4pm
Easter Celebration Service—at Burton Hathow (9am)
Easter Egg Hunt; End of term; Main School closes at 3:00pm. No after school clubs; Nursery closes at 5pm.