Harvest Hope

Harvest is a time of year that we celebrate. We give thanks to the farmers at this time of year for all their hard work. We always think about the people that haven’t got much food, in the UK and other countries.

For this year’s Harvest Assembly, titled ‘Harvest Hope’, we practised and learnt lots of songs. We decorated boxes with harvest pictures and colours and put our donations of food inside them. We rehearsed the Assembly together as a whole school to prepare us to perform in front of visitors.

Near the beginning of the Assembly some year 5s and 6s performed a traditional dance to music. Miss Brown’s year 2 class sang a brilliant ‘Vegetable Rap’ and looked pretty cool. L3, B3/4 and SK4 all read out their Harvest themed poems they were brilliant and spoke loudly so everyone could hear.

Throughout the assembly Year 5s were acting out a script that tied all of our songs together.

The choir sang beautifully throughout the Assembly and all of the audience thought their voices were spectacular! ‘Can You Hear Me?’ was a particular favourite and was really poignant.

The Assembly was brought to a close by year 6 representatives by reading out a prayer which echoed the words of ‘Can You Hear Me?’

One of the visitors stood at the end of the assembly to say thank you for their invitation and that they thought the assembly was really good. They also thanked the school for all their donations of food to help them through the winter.

We all loved and enjoyed the assembly and can’t wait for another one!

By L3

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.