The children of Woodlands Academy have attended lots of sporting events this term; from dodgeball, to cross country, to football⌠weâve attended it all.
Our Dodgeball team were an absolute credit to the academy at their tournament, and we were extremely proud to have been awarded the title of Most Sporting Team in the tournament. Our children played fairly and with integrity, and were delighted for the winning opposition.
In Cross Country, our children ran tirelessly through the wind and mud, never giving up. We even managed to bring home two medals for 2nd place in the Year 6 boysâ race, and 3rd in the Year 4 girlsâ race. Well done Ashton and Belle!
We also took a team of footballers to Bradley to take part in a local competition. Our team came top of the league, and are now going on to the next round of the competition in Rochdale later this month, with the support of GTSET. Two of our children were also scouted by Grimsby Town Football Club at this competition; what an achievement!
We are so proud of Y6s this term. Their continued effort with their learning has been incredible and this was seen in their most recent mock SATs tests. The progress they have made since the last data point has been incredible. All the hard work of interventions, boosters and the additional home learning is starting to pay off. The children celebrated their success with a lovely breakfast on golden Friday and an afternoon of sport with GTSET.
We have enjoyed a wonderful run up to Christmas this year, with our Winter Wonderland being a huge success. Children from across our school and the wider community came to meet Santa and enjoy all of the festive activities available, such as toasting marshmallows and the festive photo booth. We even had a visit from the Mighty Mariner!
The whole school has also enjoyed a pantomime this year, with Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 watching a production in school, and Key Stage 2 visiting the auditorium. We had a blast!
Our choir also entertained members of our community at Center4. They sparked and shone and weâre really proud of them.
Merry Christmas everyone!
As part of our celebrations for the Queenâs Platinum Jubilee, the children at Woodlands Academy enjoyed creating and baking our own tasty treats. We followed recipes, weighing and measuring ingredients carefully. We are delighted with the outcome and enjoyed sampling our products during a family picnic on the field.
The children at Woodlands Academy were excited to have the National Play-Off trophy in school. Grimsby Town were kind enough to lend it to the school for a day, and we enjoyed celebrating with our local football team.
To further develop our praise culture and promote the ethos of âSuccess and Happiness for every childâ, we have introduced our Tree of Success. This is to enable the children to share their achievements made outside of school.
All children in the school have had their handprint added to the tree as they are all a part of the success. Children are then invited to bring in anything from home that they want to share and celebrate their success in. For example, swimming badges, football medals, learning to ride their bike etc.
Woodlands Academy:
Year 4 and 5 have been looking at the process of mummification in our history lessons. As part of this process, Ancient Egyptians would dry out the body with natron. In our science lesson we investigated how we could do this using our own ânatronâ which was salt and baking powder. The children (fully equipped with aprons) took out the organs (seeds and juice) from the dead body (tomato) and then covered it with ânatronâ. Next the children predicted what would happen to the tomato. Some children thought it would change colour, others thought it would shrivel up. We also have a control tomato with no natron to compare our results. We now just have to wait 2-3 weeks to see the results.
