What has been happening in school? Have a read 😊

• Free audiobooks for children

  Wed 29 Apr 2020 Kate Long
  Do you love being read to? Do you like to hear a story while you're busy doing other things? There are lots of free children's books to listen to here. Have a browse!

• Keep going with JOE!

  Mon 27 Apr 2020 M.Jones
  A punishing challenge from Joe Wicks this morning!  Did you do it?  Can you create your own exercise wheel?  We would love to see some examples.  What would be your favourite exercises?

  

• Shout out to all our children for another week of MEGA home learning. CELEBRATION

  Fri 24 Apr 2020 M.Jones

  Have a look and see if your work is featured on this weeks super star working.   There has been some amazing engagement and dedication across all year groups. It is brilliant to see all the independent learning go on.  Our children are learning so many new skills and we can’t wait until we are all back together again.  

   

  Well done everyone for keeping going.   Have a look at the class pages for more ideas if you are struggling with seesaw, we add lots to our website and video resource library all the time, there is always something you can find to do.

   

  If you are struggling to access our online learning please get in touch, email head@criftins.shropshire.sch.uk

   

  Take care and stay safe!

  

• Perserverance

  Wed 22 Apr 2020 M.Jones

  This term our school value is PERSERVERANCE, this is very important for the situation we all find ourselves in at the moment. Have a look at our values page to find out more about this terms value and what you could do to dig a little deeper into its meaning. 

   

  https://www.criftins.shropshire.sch.uk/school-values-1/

   

  I have also been having a little creative time and wondered if you would like to have a go at drawing a page to go with our value, maybe also your favourite value or the one you find most difficult to keep. 

   

  I know you all love getting creative that is why it is one of our school values. Send all your pictures in to head@criftins.shropshire.sch.uk

  

• Message from Maths Whizz

  Wed 22 Apr 2020 Julie Smith

  Turn learning loss into learning gains with Maths-Whizz - an invitation for parents

   

  Dear parent,

  As parents and educators, we know how anxious many of you are feeling about your child’s education. We’re all faced with a lot of uncertainty right now, but one thing you can be sure about is that your child’s maths learning is in safe hands.

  Your school has partnered with Whizz Education to implement our virtual tutoring program, Maths-Whizz, which is proven to accelerate students’ learning with just an hour a week. Maths-Whizz can make a profound difference to your child’s development in maths over the coming months.

  Time and again, our data shows that Maths-Whizz is most effective when students, parents and teachers work closely together. That’s why we are running a webinar, ‘How to get the most out of Maths-Whizz’, where our education experts will give you simple, practical advice on how to embed the Maths-Whizz virtual tutor into your weekly home routines. The webinar will run Monday 27 April 3pm BST [Register]

  We appreciate you’ll have lots of questions - please share them with us at webinars@whizzeducation.com and we’ll do our best to make sure they are covered in the session.

  This is a pivotal moment in your child’s maths education and we look forward to meeting you next week.

• Well done CLASS 3, Maths Whizz Champions

  Wed 15 Apr 2020 M.Jones
  

• Spring time in full swing even though we are in lockdown

  Tue 14 Apr 2020 M.Jones

  Lovely welcome back to school this morning for our children of key workers.  A message of BEE safe!  Spring is definitely here and the sun is shining.  We had a paper aeroplane competition today, it was a bigger challenge than the children thought at first. If you think you want to have a go, click the link which takes you to our video resource library for some instructions.

   

  https://criftins-ce-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/how-to-make-a-paper-aeroplane

   

  Have a look on our lock down ideas for things to do at home.  Stay at home and keep safe. 

  

• Art competition, get creative!

  Mon 13 Apr 2020 M.Jones
  

• Shout to our key worker children - you are our stars of the week

  Thu 09 Apr 2020 M.Jones
  I am so very proud of our children who have continued to come to school even during the holidays to ensure their parents can go to work and continue to support the country during this difficult time. We are so glad the sun has shone and we have had lots of giggles and smiles. Well done 👍  Thank you also to Mrs Phillips for the supply of home made treats, it makes every morning a little brighter. Have a wonderful Easter weekend and remember as every day passes we are a little closer to being together again. 

  

• Big Supermoon of 2020

  Thu 09 Apr 2020 Julie Smith

  You may have noticed over the last couple of evenings that the moon is very bright and very large this will be the biggest Supermoon of the year so far, shining big and bright in the night sky. 

   

  On 8th April the full moon will be closest to the Earth — 221,772 miles (356,907 kilometers) away — and the Earth, moon and sun will all align.  This means that when a the moon is closest to the earth it will look larger and brighter than usual. 

   

  This is called a Supermoon and this particular Supermoon is nicknamed the "Super Pink Moon." 

  Now, unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the moon will actually be pink. This Supermoon got its name because the April full moon often corresponds with the blooming of pink flowers in eastern North America.

   

  Some fun facts about the moon!

   

  • The Moon is the Earth’s only natural satellite. A natural satellite is a space body that orbits a planet, a planet like object or an asteroid.

  • It is the fifth largest moon in the Solar System.

  • The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles).

  • The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.3 days.

  • Mons Huygens is the tallest mountain on the Moon, it is 4,700 metres tall, just over half the height of Mount Everest (8,848m).

  • The Moon rotates on its axis in around the same length of time it takes to orbit the Earth. This means that from Earth we only ever see around 60% of its surface (50% at any one time).

  • The side that we can see from Earth is called the near side while the other side is called the far side (it is sometimes called the dark side despite the fact that it illuminated by the Sun just as much as the near side).

  • The effect of gravity is only about one fifth (17%) as strong on the surface of the Moon compared to the strength of gravity on the surface of the Earth.

  • The Soviet Union’s Luna program featured the first successful landing of an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of the Moon in 1966.

  • The USA’s NASA Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was the first manned Moon landing.

  • The first person to set foot on the Moon was Neil Armstrong.

  • The far side of the Moon looks quite different due to its lack of maria (ancient pools of solidified lava).

  • The surface of the Moon features a huge number of impact craters from comets and asteroids that have collided with the surface over time. Because the Moon lacks an atmosphere or weather these craters remain well preserved.

  • Although research is continuing, most scientists agree that the Moon features small amounts of water.

  • The Moon is very hot during the day but very cold at night. The average surface temperature of the Moon is 107 degrees Celsius during the day and -153 degrees Celsius at night.

  • The Earth’s tides are largely caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon.

  • The phases of the Moon are: New Moon, Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Crescent, New Moon….

  • A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon.

   

  Mrs. Smith took a photograph through her big camera last night and this is what she saw....it looks like an eyeball!