Category: Pre-Prep News

All the Queen’s House children enjoyed a fabulous Christmas party complete with musical statues, pass the parcel and a dance competition that would have impressed the Strictly Come Dancing judges!  The children paired up with a friend and pirouetted, waltzed and twirled their way around the hall to festive music and all dressed in their best party outfits.  This was followed by a sumptuous tea party; tables groaning with sandwiches, cakes, flapjacks, sausages, crisps and crudités. It wasn’t long before bells could be heard and Santa appeared bearing gifts for each child.  The children were so polite and grateful and even offered Santa some carrot sticks for his reindeer! Merry Christmas.

The Reception children performed the dress rehearsal of “Whoops-A-Daisy Angel” this afternoon. This is a delightful story of an angel who is different from all the rest! They were supported by an audience made up of children from the local nurseries and the Abbey school. They will perform to their parents on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

Mr Brett presented certificates today to the children in Queen’s House. Effort certificates were awarded to Charlie, Edie, Audrey, Emilia and Martha. Table Manners certificates were awarded to Alex, Ernest, Hermione, Alex and Maea. Congratulations to Rowan who came 2nd place at the Woodbridge Junior Chess Open and who now qualifies for the finals of the London Junior Chess Championship. Well done!

The Reception children have had tremendous fun in the spaceship role play areas this term. They have learnt how to be astronauts and spaceship mechanics and have flown to distant planets to meet friendly aliens. However it is time to come back down to earth now and the spaceships will be taking off into space for the last time at the end of the week. Hopefully we will see them return to earth next year.

Mr Brett presented certificates today to the children in Queen’s House.  Effort certificates were awarded to Rosie, Lucas, Connie, Tom and Hermione.  Table Manners certificates were awarded to Rowan, Sukie, Xan, Ernest, Annabelle and Sam.  The Karate certificate was awarded to Scarlett.  Well done to you all!

This week the children at Queen’s House have taken part in a maths investigation morning. Children in Reception read the story ‘The Doorbell Rang’ and then worked together to find out how to share biscuits out fairly. In Year 1 the children worked in groups to help Pirate Pete organise his four piles of gold bars so that each pile was the same height – but in only two moves! In Year 2 one group read ‘One hundred hungry ants’ and used the story as a stimulus to find the quickest way for 100 ants to reach food by dividing them into lines of equal length. The other Year 2 group used trundle wheels to work out how far we walk to lunch every day. They found out that it was 240m, and worked out that from starting in Reception to leaving at the end of Year 2 the children will have walked 246km. That is the same distance as walking from Queen’s House to Buckingham Palace and back again! The children showed great determination and fun was had by all.

WORM

I’m a little wiggler
I’m a little worm.
Watch me as I wriggle.
See me as I squirm.
Find me in the garden
Sliding through the earth.
Go and ask the gardeners.
They know what I’m worth.

Tony Mitton

Anything

Anything that’s broken

I will mend.

Anything that needs to go

I will send.

Any time you call me

I will attend.

You can ask me anything.

I am your friend.

Bernard Young

Happy Poem

Happy as a rainbow
happy as a bee
happy as a dolphin
splashing in the sea

Happy as bare feet
running on the beach
happy as a sunflower
happy as a peach

Happy as a poppy
happy as a spoon
dripping with honey
happy as June

Happy as a banjo
plucking on a tune
happy as a Sunday
lazy afternoon

Happy as a memory
shared by two
happy as me…
when I’m with you

James Carter