Last week, on Thursday 10th May, we had a visit from the Mayor of Walsall! She came to our school to judge our planter competition. All of the classes in school were tasked by Mrs Steen to design and make their own planter, linked to a topic that they are studying in school at the moment. Madam Mayor was really excited to see our planters (on her first official visit as Mayor) and had a very tough time picking a winner!
Last Friday, we had coaches in from Tipton Sports Academy delivering free tennis sessions to our Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children. They were improving their reactions and reflexes, their hand eye coordination skills as well as their ability to hold the bat and hit the ball. The children thoroughly enjoyed the lessons and at the end they all received a voucher for free tennis sessions at the sports academy! Some children were even singled out as having high potential and were given a 3 week scholarship with the academy too… wow!
We thank Tipton Sports Academy for delivering this for us and hope some of our children take up their fantastic offer.
For World Book Day yesterday, the children and staff of Salisbury had a wonderful time dressing up as their favourite book characters! The children completed some really exciting tasks throughout the day: decorating a potato as their favourite character (thank you to parents for joining us for this!); a ‘Where’s Wally?’ competition, where we had to find him as many times as possible around the school; paired reading with children in different year groups; and story time with our class teacher in our library. It was a fun-packed day which everybody really enjoyed, and we can’t wait to do it all again next year – thank you to Mrs Bayley (AKA Gangsta Granny) for her super organisational skills, and to everybody for taking part!
Last night saw some of our Year 3 & 4 children take part in the Agility Challenge Competition at Willenhall E-Act Academy as part of the School Games Programme. Mr Sumner and Mrs Baker accompanied the children as they completed a series of activities, such as sprinting, speed bounce, balance tests, throwing and many more activities! Well done to the children who competed, you all did extremely well and most importantly, enjoyed the competition.
Year 5 and 6 spent today at Walsall Art Gallery, taking part in many different activities. We looked at lots of art using many different media, and created art work of our own: portrait sketches, still life drawings, plasticine models based on existing artwork and our own work inspired by the artist Nilupa Yasmin – you can see pictures of some of these below. Thank you Walsall Art Gallery for the great day out!
In RE, children in Year 5 & 6 have been learning about spirituality in different religions and about how we express our own spirituality. Today, the children listened to some examples of Christian music and how important music often is to Christians. They then used a range of musical instruments to express their own spirituality.
In school, we are providing a free 12 week English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course for parents/carers in conjunction with Walsall Council’s ESOL Project. This course allows learners to build their skills and confidence in the English Language, which will in turn help them to support their child’s learning and communicating in school. Thank you to the parents who have come to join us so far – we hope you are finding it useful!
The School Games, which is funded by Sport England National Lottery funding and delivered by the Youth Sport Trust, is a government led programme designed to deliver competitive school sport to all young people It comprises of both Intra and Inter-school competitions leading to County Finals.
Children have been involved in a number of competitions:
