Martham Remembrance Day Service

The pupils and staff from school will meet 'behind the poppies' at 10.45am on Tues 11th where they will sing. During this, class B3/4 and representatives from each class will take a traditional wreath and some of our bottle poppies to the war memorial. They will join members of the British Legion for a short service led by Duncan Laxton.

The 2 minutes silence will be observed by the whole school, followed by the last post and prayers.

If the weather is bad we will meet at 10.45 in the church.

If anybody from the community would like to join us in Remembrance they are more than welcome to do so.

Poppy Project Update                         23/10/14

Dear Parents, Carers, Friends and Community,

Our ‘Poppy Art Installation’ inspired by the Tower of London tribute has fired the imagination of many. Following the news coverage of The Queen’s visit to the Tower some of our children decided to write to The Queen and invite her to Martham!

Holton St Peter School in Suffolk (brought pupils to Martham for a poppy making demonstration) recently had Radio Suffolk visit them to talk about the project. They have passed on information about our venture internally within the BBC- Radio Norfolk, Look East and The One Show!

A Poppy making Reading Café is to be held after half term for classes L3, B3/4, and SK4. This will swell our ‘poppy river’ a bit more. However, instructions, written by our pupils, are available on the school blog (accessed through the school website) so please use half term to have a go at creating poppies. If you do not have access to all of the materials, cut bottles ready for us to paint would be much appreciated. We need as much support as possible.

 Please ‘visit’ us on the Facebook page - Suffolk and Norfolk Field of Poppies or the Martham Primary School Facebook pages or on Twitter.

Mrs Elliott

Join us in making poppies for Remembrance Day.

Poppy appeal

 

There is only a month to go before Remembrance Day and here at Martham Primary we are trying to create our own version of the Tower of London Poppy display. Join in with us by following the step by step guide below to creating a plastic bottle poppy, as written by Amelia and donate your poppy to our good cause.

You will need:

·         A plastic bottle (any size)

·         A drill or a pair of scissors

·         Red, black and green acrylic paint or permanent markers

·         A paintbrush

·         Hairdryer

·         Wire (florists wire)

·         Black button or bead

·         Stick (for stem)

1.       Cut off the bottom of a bottle (4 -7 centimetres).

2.       Use a drill or a pair of scissors to make a hole in the bottom of the bottle.

3.       Snip off bits of the bottle to make petals (rounded will be best).

4.       Paint the inside of the poppy with red acrylic paint or colour with a marker. Leave to dry.

5 .      Cut a 7 cm circle from the remains of the bottle and make a hole in the centre.

6.       Paint the circle black or colour it with a marker. Leave to dry

7.       Repeatedly cut from the outside of the circle inwards to fringe it (don’t cut to the hole).

8.       Cut a piece of wire to about 20cms long.

9.       Next thread a black bead or button onto the wire and put both ends through the black circle.

10.   Heat the outer edge of the black circle with a hairdryer until it curls (this may take a while).

11.   Pass the wire through the red poppy base and pull.

12.   To make a green calix, cut a large circle out of the remaining bottle pieces and make a hole in the middle.

13.   Shape it into a starfish shape and paint it with green acrylic.

14.   Thread this onto your poppy.

15.   Use the wire to attach the poppy to a stick.

16.   Finally use a hairdryer to curl the edges (it will take a while to curl the petals).

 

 

Have fun creating your poppy and come along and "plant" it along our school driveway.

 

Remembrance Reading Café

 

On Tuesday 23^rd September, Year 5 and 6 pupils enjoyed the first ‘Reading Café’ of the year.  Many parents came along to support their children and enjoy the activities whilst having time for tea and a chat. The café started with a sharing of the Michael Foreman book, ‘War and Peas’.  This linked to the theme of Remembrance and the significance of the poppy symbol. Children and parents then created a poppy from recycled bottles. These will form the beginning of our own poppy display- inspired by the Tower of London display to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of the start of WW1.

We would like to invite everybody to contribute to our ‘poppy trail’. Following our ‘Reading Café we will be writing instructions and making posters so look out for them!

Martham Primary Garden Day

 

 

 

         On Friday 23rd May Martham Primary School held a Garden Day. During the day the children rotated through 7 sessions in colour coded groups, made up of children from various year groups all working together.

      The teachers each delivered an activity based upon "The Outdoors" between them covering many areas such as music, art/craft, science, gardening, maths, literacy and even included 2 groups run by members of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.

 

During the afternoon we had the grand unveiling of "Four Seasons" our new school nature area. We send a special thankyou goes to Andy Holland who has worked so hard on this area for us. A great day was had by all children and adults involved and the sun shone for us too!

A big thankyou to everyone who gave up their time to come and see us or join in with our special day.

 

 

Martham Primary Garden Project

You may have noticed that the grassed area to the side of the school, near the school chickens, is being redeveloped.  We are very excited about this project, and we hope to create a wonderful and inspiring outdoor learning environment for all the children to enjoy. 

We are very grateful to Andy Holland who has kindly agreed to give up his time to do the work.  We are currently seeking different funding sources to pay for the materials that need to be purchased. 

 

So far the woodland area has been cleared and we plan to develop a learning area here with an insect hotel and bird boxes.  The chicken pen has been tidied up with shingle so our chickens are no longer bathing in mud!  The original vegetable patch is going to be divided up into individual beds and a wildflower garden will be grown along the back of this area.  All of this will be set amongst seating, information boards and other educational resources.  Ultimately, we plan to fence the area so it is safe for our younger children, but it will also be open for parents when collecting children at the end of the day.

This is an ongoing project, but we hope the main work will be finished around Easter so the children can start using the area in the Summer Term.  If you have any resources which you think might be useful that you are willing to donate then please speak to Mrs Partridge.  We will keep you updated on our progress.

A Tudor Christmas

Children from classes O4/5, SK5, D6 and E6 enjoyed a visit to the Elizabethan House to help with the Christmas preparations. They learnt how to set the dining table for the Christmas Banquet, helped with the Master and Mistress’ wardrobe, practised two Tudor dances and also wrote beggars’ licences using a quill pen and ink.

In a workshop back in school, pupils learnt about the Tudor tradition of serving ‘subtleties’ (sugar and almond paste sculptures) and had a go at making their own creations using salt dough (2 parts plain flour to 1 part salt. Mix with water until pliable (not sticky) and bake in the oven at 140` until hard – 1.5 – 2 hours).