Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner today at Jesson's

 Some interesting hats...

 ...and delicious food (not too many children went for the salad option today!)

 Lots of lovely vegetables and roast potatoes

 Below, the full turkey dinner.
(There were other options available - halal, vegetarian, fish - and fruit, doughnuts or sponge if you didn't want the Christmas pudding and custard)

Miss Scaysbrook, our head cook, serves Mrs Fellows

 More strange hats!

 And more!

 The children enjoy their meal

Here are Year 3 and 4 staff eating in style with sparkling apple juice (Blog lady taking picture in the mirror) 

 Other staff ate in the staffroom

 ... where Mr Seager displayed a sample from his festive hat collection

Outside, in the garden, the vegetation bows low in the stormforce wind

We're thankful we're not in Scotland today!

A real sporting superstar - and a Jesson's boy

Here's a picture of Reece Brown, a former pupil at Jesson's.

The picture is not very good (it was a scan of a blurred photo) but you can clearly see the Three Lions on his shirt. Yes, he represented England at Football in a recent match.

Mr Shackleton, who watched it on Sky Sport, says:

"He looked very good. He is at the Blues at the moment  - he even gets educated there.

He was far and away the best footballer, cricketer and basketball player in his year group. In fact, an all round athlete. When he captained the cricket team, I found him to be an excellent leader and also a team player.

It's the proudest moment for our school, ever."

And I wouldn't disagree with that. Well done Reece - we are soooooooo proud of you.

Narnia - and Russells Hall Hospital

Today Year 5 children went to the Narnia exhibition/presentation at Revival Fires.
It was enchanting

The four kings and queens with Aslan at Cair Paravel

While Queen Jadis ruled Narnia, it was always winter, never Christmas

The rest of Years 5 and 6 will also be visiting this.

On Friday, Jubilate sang in the Main Entrance at Russells Hall Hospital



They were helping the Friends of the Hospital raise money

As usual, they received much praise, and passers by put lots of money into the collecting pots - we even saw someone put in a ten pound note!!!

Thanks to Callum in Y6 for taking the pictures

The Christmas Fayre

Friday was our Christmas Fayre day, and the school was buzzing with excitement and fun

 The Decorations Stall did well

 Here's the Bottle Stall

The Book Stall attracted a lot of attention 

The Toy Stall

 Teddy Game stall

Our very popular Raffle: the tickets were being sold right till the last minute

 The queue for facepainting

 You could have a white beard if you wanted!

Here's one we did earlier!

 Waiting by Santa's grotto

The nativity scene in the entrance hall reminds us of the point of all of this

Can you kick a football....

 ... into this toilet??? (Ahem!)

The Hook a Duck stall was easier if your Mum could help a little!

A fantastic event.

Well done to the Friends of Jesson's for organising it!

Science workshop for Year 2 Parents

Some pictures from Year 2 Working Together - with a science focus

Sound - making telephones

 Reading the worksheet

 Making the models

Electricity and circuits 

 Floating and sinking

Creative Maths visit

Year 5 Maths group visit number 2.

Below, the children had recorded sounds whilst at West Park. They looked at how these sounds created an 8 beat rhythm, then responded to this in groups - counting the beats and responding physically to the sound.

 Experimenting with shapes...

 ...and symmetry

Thankyou to West Midlands Arts for organising this - the children really started to think about maths in a new way!

Dance and Drama!

Above and below, pictures from a Dance Workshop on Open Day (Fridays is our normal dance day, so we put this on specially)

Vocalize performing on Open Day - there are two conductors at the moment. This is Miss Hebron....

 ...and this is Mr Kimberley

Mr Kimberley's class had the opportunity to go and see a production of the Little SHop of Horrors

 And, success out of school! Here's Shoni taking part in a cheerleading competition in Bolton on 30th October 2011.

The team came away with 10 first place trophies and 3 grand championship trophies.