We wanted to share just a few Christmas photos with you.

We wanted to share just a little snippet from our 4 and 5 year old's Christmas nativity. This is actually a clip from the dress rehersal. The performance is called Prickly Hay A Nativity Hoedown and is by Mary Cliff and Kelly Fort www.outoftheark.com 

We have all enjoyed the children practising their play and parents have said that they are already familiar with all of the songs! 

The children in Class 3 have enjoyed making calendars and Christmas mobiles. Here is a little gallery of their work.

We couldn't do PE today, as the hall was full of trees and stage blocks! So we decided to share some of the nuresry rhymes we now know. The rough and ready nature of the presentation is entirely my fault. We hope you just enjoy the honest enthusiasm we bring to the piece. Personally I love 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'. Before the cock crows three times I hope to have a video of Away in the Manger'. 

Mr E

What delightful children we are privileged to work with. They are full to bursting with seasonal excitement! We will post some more videos over thenext couple of days.

This is some of the children in Class One thinking about Santa.

The delightful chaps in class three have been thinking about 'children's rights' and 'responsibilities'. The whole area of representing your own point of view and listening to the views of others interests us. We have started to develop a format called 'Soapbox'. A theme is chosen for discussion, e.g. "are school uniforms a good thing?"

There are three members of the panel, in 'the studio' and people come up to the 'phone chair' to share their viewpoint. We will be looking at some of these clips and we will discuss how to improve them (you can see these at http://hawesps3.posterous.com/developing-soapbox ). If we can't come up with at least ten ideas then perhaps we need to head back to pen and paper. Later in the year we would like to take part in a debate, with a topical theme, with some local schools. 

This item has been posted because everyone enjoyed the way that the two main performers worked with each other and we laughed a lot. Alfie really couldn't get his mind around wearing a 'posh' tie and Nicole ended up being the lady of the manor! Well done both of you.

Mr E