FranchePrimary

Who says small people can't make a big difference? Lily in Year 2 has written a fabulous letter to @TeamTigerTurf who have kindly agreed to donate some brilliantly vibrant astro turf to our school!🤩 Which colour do you think should we choose?#bethechange #powerofwriting

Our wonderful choir have been working on songs that encourage improvisation, harmonies and part singing this week. 🥰#Wehavejustgottosing #WeAreMusic

A huge thank you Franche Community Church for welcoming our staff to a special celebration tea party this afternoon. We were all overwhelmed by their wonderful hospitality and kindness. #familyoffranche #teaparty #communityspirit

This week Reception have been learning all about Africa where our class story 'Handa’s Surprise’ is set. There has been some fantastic sentence writing and discussions. Well done, Reception! #WeAreTheWorldTogetherWeCan #primarygeography

Year 2 have been researching famous explorer and adventurer Marco Polo. After discovering that he travelled through deserts of Mongolia on camels to reach China, they watercolour painted their mind maps in desert colours and added their researched facts. #tellinghistory

Reception have had a fantastic #AccessAllArts week exploring the artist Jackson Pollack, famous for making splashy, drippy and messy paintings! Inspired by his work, children rolled marbles or dragged string across their chosen animal silhouettes to create their own unique art.

The Steel Pan Ensemble had a fabulous experience performing alongside a string group and woodwind group at St Catherine’s Primary School yesterday evening. The session was organised and led by Gareth Hughes from @SevernArts and was thoroughly enjoyed by all! #WeAreMusic

Our Reading Champions are very grateful to our PTA for providing us with book tokens to spend in Wyre Forest Books in Bewdley. The Champions had a wonderful time selecting new books for our school library and trying to manage their budget. #readingeveryday #readingforpleasure

Year 5 have been learning about Samba and how rhythm patterns are layered up and arranged into a structure with grooves, breaks, and call and response rhythms. Everyone then had a go at improvising their own rhythms. #WeAreMusic #outdoorclassroom

As part of their Stone Age topic, Year 3 have been learning about rocks and their different properties. Today, they have been scientists and have investigated which rock would have been the best one to use as a spear during the Stone Age. #STEMlearning #makinghistory

Our Gardening Club went pond dipping. The children worked in teams and found frogs, pond snails, baby newts and our resident fish. They also maintained their mini gardens and were excited to see that their grass seed had already germinated. #ponddipping #gardeningclub #exploring

‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ the rap! Big shout out to @MichaelRosenYes @HelenOxenbury & the @BIGPictureBooks @WalkerBooksUK crew for creating and sharing this classic. Remember: you can’t rap a book if you can’t read a book. Over to you and your crew now. #BearHunt #MCGrammmar

It was 4EH's turn to end a wonderful week of Geographical field trips to Haye Farm today.😍 #fieldtofork #fieldwork #futurefarmers

Reception had a fun start to the new half term by receiving a book and some exotic fruits to ignite their new topic 'Handa's Surprise'. The children were brilliantly adventurous in exploring the new fruits, talking about them and some tasting them. #totallytropicaltastes

Year 3 have brought their topic to life by taking part in a Stone Age Day, where they made clay pots or talismans, created cave paintings and even had a go at 'hunting' using spears (javelins), bows and arrows. #digdiscoverdate #creativecurriculum #bringinghistoryalive

Our Year 3 and 4 have been working with Artist in Residence @RachelShilston this week. They are working together to turn their fabulous drawings about our Franche values into mosiac magic! This will be bedazzling our entrance hall after half term. 🤩

Year 4 have been busy in the kitchen this week exploring healthy foods and sustainability. They decided on honey and raisin flapjacks as a sweet treat, working together and sharing the roles to bake. Well done, Year 4! #wearechefs #foodforlife

Our fantastic school council have been super busy #beingthechange to improve our school community. Here's an update on their progress. #FamilyofFranche #schoolcouncil youtu.be/S6nSSNItt_0

Our #bakeoff finalists wowed the judges today! Their task was to create a dish fit for the King using seasonal ingredients. The standard was fantastic this year and our judges had tricky but tasty decisions! #coronationcelebration youtu.be/Yxlru4xIe8E

Year 4 pupils became engineers in a @STEMworksUK workshop today. They were tasked with creating a robot, some shelving units and a mechanism for the robot to get items from the shelf. Fingers crossed our top designs get chosen! #STEMgineers