Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 2 Magic Faraway Tree DT

  Tue 12 Mar 2019
  Year 2 have been busy designing their own Magic Faraway Tree.   The children have begun to create their own treehouse by selecting natural resources to decorate their tree.  They were very excited to be able to use sandpaper to prepare their own treehouse platform and use real hammers and nails to secure the platforms to their tree.  We have started to create accessories for our treehouse such as ladders, bridges and zip wires and we are really looking forward to creating our treehouses over the next couple of weeks!  Fantastic work Year 2! 

  

• YEAR 3 visit the Natural History Museum

  Fri 08 Mar 2019

  The children travelled to the Earth Zone and spent time finding out about volcanoes and earthquakes. We all felt shaking when we experienced an earthquake for ourselves.

  The children also had the opportunity to be palaeontologists, digging up dinosaur bones and using observable features and measurements to identify the dinosaur.

  As we left, the children also spotted David Walliams’ yellow post box.

  What an exciting Day!

  

• World Book Day

  Thu 07 Mar 2019

  St Lawrence CE Primary School had so much fun on World Book Day, we took part in many activities to continue to develop our love of reading.  These included an extreme reading challenge, making book characters from potatoes, Jackanories and story sharing throughout the day and a book exchange. We learnt so much about our favourite books and found some new ones to treasure too!

  

• Rotary Club Writing Competition

  Thu 07 Mar 2019
  Three children from St Lawrence won prizes at the Rotary Club Writing Competition last week. All received a certificate and a book voucher for the quality of their writing based on the subject of 'Inspiration' Well done to all!

  

• World Book Day Year 4

  Thu 07 Mar 2019
  On World Book Day Maple class enjoyed sharing their favourite books during 'Book Speed Dating'. The children now have lots of new books they want to read next! We also created comic strips about the character Roz from The Wild Robot, shared our reading books with Oak class and listened to Mrs Turner read with milk and biscuits.

  

• World Book Day Year 3

  Thu 07 Mar 2019

  Year Three enjoyed World Book Day. They made potato book characters. The children said that is was somewhat fiddly and patience was needed but the results were amazing.

  Year 3 also shared their books with years 2 and R. One child commented, ‘It was so nice to share our books. The children had lots of questions and are very good at listening.’

  

• Year 3 Hindu Temple visit

  Wed 06 Mar 2019 Mrs Smith

  On Wednesday 6^th March Year Three visited a Hindu Temple in Southampton. The trip had been postponed due to weather conditions earlier in the year. The children were very excited but were not quite sure what to expect. When we arrived the children seemed disappointed. A Hindu temple is not an extravagant looking building from the outside. The children entered the temple and removed their shoes, placing them on specially designed shelves and entered the area of worship. We were privileged to watch a morning worship before exploring the temple further.  The children were fascinated with the ornate areas for some of the Gods. ‘It is so beautiful’ commented one of the boys. ‘I didn’t think it would be this beautiful’ commented one of the girls.

  

• Fairtrade Fortnight Year 3

  Wed 27 Feb 2019

  This year as part of their work on Fair Trade, Year Three were invited to visit the CO-OP in Alton High Street. The children conducted an investigation into the range of Fair Trade products available.

  The children were most surprised that Fair Trade flowers are available. However, they seemed most interested in the range of Fair Trade Easter products available.

  

• Year 2 Troll Day

  Fri 15 Feb 2019
  Larch Class really enjoyed celebrating their topic 'Hug Time' by having a Troll Day! They really enjoyed sharing their singing, dancing and classwork with their families.  

  

• Sharing Love

  Fri 15 Feb 2019

   

  Our Church School Council Reps visited Bob Weighton (Alton resident & England's oldest man at 110) at his home with Mrs Micklefield to show him how he is loved by the community of St Lawrence CE Primary School. He was delighted to receive it and also gave them a present of a Tangram which he had made himself. It kept them very busy!

   

  He also talked to them about his life and his faith journey. Having spent just a short time with Bob, our two Church School Council reps came away transformed in some way, with so much they had heard and experienced by listening to such a great man of faith.