4+ had a brilliant visit from the Explorer Dome. The children were all dressed up in fabulous space costumes and loved clambering into the dome and seeing huge projected images of the moon, astronauts, planets and stars. They were told some wonderful stories about the stars they could see in the night sky and they learnt how to join the stars together like a dot-to-dot to make pictures. They particularly liked the story about Orion and Sirus. The children had a go at using their own imaginations to look up into the dome to create pictures from the stars.

Over the past year our school has been involved in a collaborative project with schools across the region entitled Routes to Resilience. This is a program that develops staff and pupil awareness about the character ‘muscles’ which we all develop as part of our learning. The project led by Mrs Edwards has impacted on many aspects of our school and we are delighted to have been recognised as a Routes to Resilience accredited school.

At the beginning of this half term the pupils had the opportunity to take part in a Religion and Belief Roadshow giving the pupils the opportunity to sample multiple faiths in one arena.  The faiths we were lucky enough to welcome were Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Humanist, Jain, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh.  The pupils were able to experience sights, sounds and fragrances of the various cultures.  Each faith had a stall of artefacts that the students could handle and a practitioner who answered their questions.

The pupils at Church Langton took part in a Remembrance service as a culmination to their work learning all about the sacrifices of those who lost their lives in the First World War. Pupils had a series of lessons and assemblies in the week building up to our Remembrance service. During this the names of those from the local villages who lost their lives were read out. Our brass teacher then played the last post and the oldest children read prayers. All of the pupils made poppies and other artwork captured the memorable images of Remembrance.

The children in Year 4 have been learning about Remembrance day and writing poems about poppies. The children had some lovely ideas and created some wonderful pieces of work.

Year 6 made us all very proud last night when they performed at The Royal Albert Hall. The children worked very hard at learning a sequence of music as part of a massed ensemble and were also able to enjoy many other musicians from around the country.