WIN Autumn 2010

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Wolsey Infant and Nursery School’s Magazine
Learning Together
and Having Fun
See pages 8 & 9
Autumn Term
2010
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Carol Singing Choir
Brings Christmas Cheer
to Croydon Commuters
See page 18
What did we get
up to this year?
See pages 22 & 23
Make a Wooden
Spoon Angel
See page 25
Meet this
year’s
School
Councillors
on page 4
Talented Wolsey Team Represents Our
School at Tennis & Squash Trials in Croydon
See page 5
Remembrance
&
The Poppy Apeal 2010
See page 7
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Orange Classroom
Orange Classroom
Purple Classroom
Purple Classroom
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Over the Summer Holidays, Our new Year 1 classrooms
have been completed and Learning Tree now has their
new larger space to work in. This has allowed them to
take more children and some of a much younger age.
Reception has moved to where Year 1 used to be and
they have been given part of what used to be the front
playground as their outdoor learning environment with
a lovely colourful fence all of the way around to keep
them safe. The remaining front playground space is
now being used only as a waiting area for before and
after school. A ramp has been completed to allow
everyone to get safely down and back from the rear
playground.
Orange Classroom
Purple Classroom
Green Classroom
Green Classroom
Green Class Cloakroom
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To ensure the safety of the children
and adults that work and visit our
school we have implemented the
following changes to our school
security this year:
 All playtimes now take place on the
back playground
 Additional staff have been first aid
trained
 New vehicle and pedestrian front
gates with buzzer access have been
installed and is now the only way
onto our school grounds during the
day
 Dedicated CCTV cameras
 All staff have enhanced Criminal
Record Bureau (CRB) checks,
including any building or grounds
maintenance staff
 All visitors to the school are given a
re d vi sit or s‟ la n ya r d a nd a
safeguarding statement to read
 All staff now wear a blue staff
lanyard with their name and picture
displayed. Staff photos are also
displayed in the school foyer
 Main school doors have key coded
locks
 The entrance & exit doors are
alarmed
 All children undertake and annual
program of Internet Safety to ensure
the make safe choices and decisions
when working online
 When working with the Internet, only
safe search engines are used, such
as www.askkids.com
 All school computers have been set
up with an on screen button that
children can push if they encounter
anything online that makes them
worried or anxious
 Fronter, our school Managed
Learning Environment (MLE) is
secured in such a way that individual
user names and passwords are
required for access both at school
and at home
Our new vehicle and
pedestrian security gates
STAFF
PHOTOGRAPHS
ON
DISPLAY
IN
THE
FOYER
INTERNET SAFETY IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
WHY NOT VISIT THE
‘THINK YOU KNOW’ WEBSITE :
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/
You may have noticed that
recently throughout our school the
staff are wearing blue name badges and visitors red. The children
know clearly that blue means a
person they can totally trust and
red means a visitor they should be
polite to. They also know that
they may not speak to anyone
who does not have blue or red on
and they must find
someone
with blue on to tell them. It is
highly unlikely that this situation
would arise, but just as the children know how to
approach
people whilst out shopping with
their parents or carers, they know
how to
approach people in
their day at school with us.
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Saturday 2nd October 2010
FIREWORK
SAFETY
Year 2 have made posters
about firework safety
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Keeping Safe With Fireworks Tips For Children
1. Keep babies and pets indoors.
2. Stay away from fires.
3. Stay with a grown up.
4. Never pick a firework up from the
ground.
5. Adults only light fireworks.
6. Stand in a safe place.
You should never touch a firework
 Stand back from
fires when they
light up.
 Don‟t leave your
door open or
babies might get
out.
Myisha
Some of our pupils attended a tennis and
squash trials, organised by Esporta Health
Clubs, which was held at the Surrey Health
& Racquets Club in Hannibal Way,
Croydon.
The children had a great time playing on
the courts and it was noted that a few of
our children showed great potential.
 Never pick a
firework up from
the ground when
it is lit up.
Chloe
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Harvest in Reception
Wolsey Infant & Nursery School
held their Harvest Festival
assembly on Wednesday 20th
October 2010.
To ensure as many parents and
carers could attend, Year 2, Yellow
Class, and Morning Nursery
parents were invited to the
9.15am assembly and Year 1, Red
Class, Blue Class and Afternoon
Nursery
parents joined us at
2.00pm.
We would like to thank everybody
for the food gifts that were
brought in to add to the fresh
produce from our school garden
and from Miss O‟Callaghan‟s
Grandfather‟s allotment.
These gifts have been distributed
locally to people who really do
appreciate being remembered at
this time.
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This year sees the 70th Anniversary of
The Battle of Britain, in which this
local area played a very important
role, with RAF Biggin Hill one of the
key fighter stations that protected the
country in World War II.
Scramble!
Muddy Trenches in Flanders Fields
November is the time in the year that
people wear red poppies to remember
those who have sacrificed their lives for
us during war around the world.
Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day as it
used to be known is always held on the
11th November and a two minute silence
is held at 11.00 am - „The 11th hour of
the 11th day of the 11th month‟.
It was at 11 am on 11th November 1918,
that World War I ended after four long
years of fighting.
Spitfire at RAF Biggin Hill 70 years ago
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - The Spitfire, Lancaster & Hurricane
The poppy was chosen as a symbol of
remembrance because it was the only
flower that was able to grow in the muddy WWI battlefields of Flanders in Belgium. The soldiers saw it as a sign of
warmer weather, new life and hope for
the future.
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As part of Family Learning Week, on
Thursday 7th & Friday 8th October 2010,
Wolsey Infant & Nursery parents and carers
were invited into our school hall to share
literacy and numeracy learning activities
with their children that the staff had kindly
prepared and set up.
It was a great opportunity to show them
how much learning can happen through
different fun based activities at school and
at home.
Each class also had a time slot in the hall to
try out the activities with their classmates.
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CALAT in partnership with our school
is currently running a 15 week „fun
with numbers‟ family maths course.
The aim of the course is to allow
parents to find out about how their
child is learning numeracy at our
school, make resources, get ideas to
help their child at home and to brush
up their own maths skills.
The course runs from 1.00pm until
3.00pm every Monday.
As part of this time, the parents get to
work alongside their children and
support them in age appropriate fun
maths activities.
Also, as part of the course, the
children along with their parents get a
further two hours a week on a Monday
and Friday where they are using ICT
maths websites to support their
learning.
The 17 parents and their 19 children
seem to really been enjoying the
course and are looking forward to
continuing with it after Christmas until
March 2011.
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On Wednesday 22nd September 2010, we ran an evening event for parents to come in and
find out more about how we teach reading and writing at our school and how best parents
and carers can support our work at home.
The evening was very well attended and it was nice to see the parents really enjoying the
practical tasks that were provided.
Our reading scheme’s
book characters
Our children are really enjoying our new reading scheme and look forward to reading about
what Biff, Chip, Floppy and the other characters are going to get up to next!
Parents getting to grips with
our handwriting style
Have you used the BBC website
‘The Magic Key’ yet?
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/index.shtml
This site contains literacy activities that involve
the characters from our reading scheme.
Why not have a look?
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Roke Primary School‟s ICT Suite
Storytelling Workshop
Friday 1st October 2010
Five of our Year 2 children attended
a special literacy event at Roke
Primary School along with Miss Avis
and Mr. James. Our pupils took part
in a really enjoyable storytelling
workshop where the storyteller from
Africa told three fascinating and
captivating stories and the pupils had
to act them out.
While this was going on, Miss Avis
set up our display that showed all
the fun things our school did during
our Pirate Workshop week. Other
schools from the local area also had
their displays up to show us what
creative writing activities they had
been doing over the Summer Term.
Our pupils enjoyed talking to the
visitors about their pirate work. They
also had the opportunity to visit all of
the other displays to get ideas to
bring back to school to share.
Our „Enthusiastic Year 2 Writers
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Oracy Group Displays
Nursery Displays
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… and visitors to our school - Autumn Term 2010
On Monday 11th October, Winston the musician came in to
work with Reception. He sang some songs with them and
then some children were able to play the instruments he
brought along.
The children all had a great time.
Congratulations to Leon
Hickman who was a runner-up
in Croydon’s Christmas Lights
Competition.
The lights were switched on
this year by Basil Brush and
Gemma Bissix on Thursday
18th November.
Wolsey Infant & Nursery School have contributed £87.00
towards this year‟s New Addington
Christmas Lights Appeal.
This was raised through parents purchasing their child‟s
Christmas card designs that they drew earlier this term.
Thank you very much.
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This term, Reception visited the New Addington Library. The librarian read them the story of The Ugly Duckling and
then some of the children helped to tell the story of the Gingerbread Man using puppets and dressing up clothes. She
also showed the children some pictures of New Addington in the past. The Reception children enjoyed having a little
time to select a book, sit down and read with their friends.
2010
Our School
1948
Site of Our School
From January, our school library will be open two days
after school so that you can come with your parent or
carer and borrow a book to take home.
Opening times will be:
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Tuesdays 3.10pm until 3.30pm
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Thursdays 3.10pm until 3.45pm
The first day will be Tuesday 11th January 2011.
We hope you will come and see our wide range of books.
Our School Library
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As part of their topic on materials, Year
2 went on a trip to visit St. Paul‟s
Cathedral in London to look at the
materials that were used in the design
of the building and also to understand
how the building was affected by the
Great Fire of London.
On Monday 15th November, Year 2 took part in
a Florence Nightingale workshop.
The children really enjoyed finding out further
information about who she was, how she helped
make positive changes to health care in Britain
and why she is still remembered today.
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Year 2 have been thinking
about what a „golden lunchtime
play would look like in practice.
Year 2
“I eat fresh apples because they
are healthy to eat.
I have fruit and vegetables
because they are good to eat.
Onions are crunchy and healthy.”
Courtney, Year 2
“We have fruit and vegetables
because they are healthy and
yummy. We have fruit and
vegetables because they
make you fast.
Fruit makes you grow strong.”
Leah, Year 2
“This is all good fruits and vegetables.
They are good for you and they make
you healthy.” Chardenay, Reception
Reception
Yellow Class Make a Healthy Fruit Salad
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Healthy Eating in Reception
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Mrs. Lee, one of our Parent
Governors,
works
at
G amba d o. She kind ly
arranged for our Year 2
children to visit. Whilst they
were there, they took part in
some research about keeping
healthy. Each child was given
a pedometer to measure how
many steps they did inside
the play frame, over 20
minutes of exercise. They
also had a talk about healthy
eating. Have a look at some
of the pictures from the day.
The Food Plate
To
have
a
balanced
diet,
you should eat
more
of
the
green and orange
food types and
not so much of
the red, yellow
and blue food
types.
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33 children & 10 adults
Thursday 9th
December
2010
Our choir were lucky enough to be invited to sing
outside the Croydon Visitors‟ Centre, just to the left
of East Croydon Station. Mrs. Forward and Miss
Taylor taught us the Christmas songs in the few
weeks leading up to the day. We were due to sing
on the Thursday before, but due to the school
heating not working properly, the school had to
shut.
We raised...
£134.33
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28 children & 6 adults
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Saturday 11th
December 2010
We raised...
£47.40
Mrs. Cefai organised for our choir to
sing at Ikea to raise further money
for our school. We were driven there
in two minibuses driven by Mr. James
& Mrs. Lock.
We set ourselves up just inside the
main entrance and sang for about
half an hour. Adrienne, a lady that
worked for Ikea then kindly took us
upstairs to the staff restaurant where
she gave us sweets, biscuits, crisps
and a drink. We really enjoyed that.
Afterwards we sang „We wish you a
merry Christmas‟ to thank her.
As we still had a little time left, it was
decided that we would try and raise
a little more money, so we went
outside the front entrance to sing.
Once we had finished, Mr. James
gave us all a chocolate advent
calendar to thank us for coming and
singing so well.
We raised £47.40, but someone
thought we would appreciate five
Jamaican dollars!
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149 Badges Claimed
144 Badges Claimed
151 Badges Claimed
Unknown
This term, Wolsey Infant & Nursery children have continued to walk to school, claiming their
‘Walk to School’ badges. I wonder how many children have the complete set so far?
Well done to our pupils and their parents / carers for making the effort to walk to school.
The children listed below have achieved
100% Autumn Term attendance!
Congratulations to all the children below and their
parents / carers for managing to attend
every day this term! (up to 10/12/10)
Theo Brown
Joshua Elliott
Katie Lee
Sarah Oyenekan
Diondre Cooper
Paige Henty
Antionette Ngangue
Alicia Saines
Aimee Smith
Samuel Davis
Benjamin Foreman
Chanel Hilton-Kwebiiha
Alisha Johnson
Ceren Keles
Josh Ledger
Leah O’Brien
Carl Tcherbi-Narteh
Chauntay Blunt
Jai Fisher
Evangeline Friend
Ciara Hogben
Lauren Knighton
Jalen Robinson
Isabelle Simpson
Shafia Surenchandrakanth
Tayshaun Anderson
Charlie Finch
Latifah Aysha Lutaya
Saviour Mona-Moke
Mya Anozia
Kaie Bardo
Callum Dalton
Charlie Dejonge
Charlie Hodges
Bella Mason-Taylor
Connor Rawlinson
Lucie Smith
Lee Styles
Neve Yendall
Isabella Antepim
Vanessa Gaisie
James Kennell
Jonathan Manu
Levi McKenzie
Nam Nguyen
Kekely Adonu
Art Ajeti
Jonathan Bright-Anson
Lilly Brockhouse
Kezia Francis
Caleb Griffiths
Elza Hisenaj
Damian Mukorovi
Olivia Ngasseu
James Tchokouani-Moukam
Leah Blagden
Jack Smith
Jake Cork
Sevgi Damdelen
Rebecca Kerashi
Ben Lurkins
Lewis Meehan
Kimi Milton
Dennon Munro
Charlotte Riley
Courtney Webb
Debbie Adetona
Katie Louise Beaney
Nazariah Campbell
Tillie Danahar
Harvey Friend
Kyle Hamilton
Tom Harris
Nathaniel Johnson
Aliyah Medley-Cleghom
Beny Mona-Moke
Altina Ajeti
Victor Ayodele
Chloe Dejonge
Abby Hodges
Jemaine Konor-Gemfi
Grace Salami
Exaucer Zenabo
(83 Children)
Attendance = Attainment + Achievement
Green Class (Year 1) is the best attending class
for the Autumn Term with 97.3%
Congratulations!
Our overall school attendance this term to date is
95.3%. Thank you to all the parents who work so
well at ensuring their children have regular
full
-time attendance.
Just a reminder:
 The
Infant doors open at 8.45 am and close at
8.55 am.
 Infant children finish school at 3.05 pm.
 Morning Nursery starts at 8.45 am and finishes at
11.45 am.
 Afternoon Nursery starts at 12.15 pm and
Also, on behalf of the school I would like to thank finishes at 3.15 pm.
parents for their improved punctuality to school.
Ms. Walsh (Education Welfare Officer)
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Pugh Bear...ly Saw Anything on Russian Cruise
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Pugh Bear had an interesting Summer. He went to Russia.
Pugh flew from Heathrow to Moscow airport tucked up warmly
in luggage. He then went on board a ship called the Kirov,
into a cabin and was allowed out—first into the cabin and later
out for a walk in Moscow.
He didn‟t see all the wonderful sights like the Kremlin and Red
Square and all the beautiful cathedrals, but at least he had
some fresh air and saw some sights.
After three days in Moscow, he travelled up canals and rivers
through 16 locks until he came to the largest lake in Europe.
Unfortunately he was not allowed out, as they have real grizzly
bears in Russia—indeed their emblem is a bear.
Unfortunately, he also missed the sights in St.Petersburg—all
the wonderful old buildings including the Winter Palace and
perhaps the greatest museum in the World—The Hermitage,
but he at least made sure Mrs Marsh did not get drunk on
Russian vodka—the drink they make from potatoes!
Finally, he made it back safe and sound to Heathrow. He has a
few tales to tell his teddy friends, I am sure.
Mrs. Marjorie Marsh, Wolsey School Governor
with Pugh Bear on holiday together
An Interview With Our Caretaker, Mr. Chris Dare
the famous route 66 all the way 2,700
miles from Chicago to Los Angeles ending
at Santa Monica Pier.
I went to the motorbike show at the
N.E.C in Birmingham - have a look at this I like darts and play for the ACA down
nice bike!
The Parade on Wednesday evenings as
part of the Thornton Heath League.
Hi I‟m Chris - some called me Grandad
Chris when I helped out in nursery and
my grandson was in there.
I am the caretaker of Wolsey Infant and
Nurery School. I open up in the morning,
close the school at night and make sure it
is safe and warm for you.
I‟ve two dogs called Poppee and Mistee.
Any way, got to go now and lockup to
I love motorbikes. I have a Triumph
make the school safe. If you see me
America. I sometimes bring it into school Three years ago I was lucky enough to go around, you can‟t miss me - I‟m the tall
when the weather is nice.
to America and ride a Harley Davidson on one with no hair on top.
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Year 2 Winner
Nursery Winner
Alfie R
Ryan D
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To raise additional money, children
could enter the colouring
competition for 20p
Year 1 Winner
Reception Winner
Leonie W
Danny G
The Winners
The Winners & Runners’ Up
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On Friday 19th November 2010 we raised money for Children in Need by paying to come to school in our pyjamas and
dressing gowns. Teachers reported that we were much calmer and concentrated a lot more during that day.
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Friday
19th
November
2010
We raised...
£175.51
Congratulations to NVQ !
Our congratulations go out to four of our
wonderful teaching assistants who, after a lot of
studying and hard work between January 2009
and August 2009, have achieved National
Vocational Qualification (NVQ) Supporting
Teaching & Learning in Schools Level 3.
We are very proud of Mrs. Haydon-Foster,
Mrs. Nunn, Mrs. Stone and Miss Luton for the
effort they put into completing their coursework.
In September, Mrs. Haydon-Foster attended the
SET Awards ceremony in Dartford, where she
received a special certificate. (see picture).
We have a few more teaching assistants who are
currently studying to gain this qualification.
Good luck to them all.
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Ingredients
(Makes 16 robins)
 175g soft unsalted butter
 175g caster sugar
 3 eggs
 400g plain flour
 75g cocoa powder
 1 teaspoon baking powder
 1 teaspoon salt
 16 red boiled sweets
 Writing icing
1. Cream together the butter your adult‟s help, put into an
and sugar in a mixing bowl.
oven preheated to 180oc / gas
mark 4 for 8 minutes.
2. Beat in the eggs.
9. Take out of the oven and
3. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, pop a red sweet in the centre
salt and baking powder into the and return to the oven for anbowl and mix together.
other 2-4 minutes, until the
sweet has melted and the bis4. Wrap the dough in clingfilm cuit is lightly browned.
and pop into the fridge for at
least 1 hour.
10. Allow to cool for a minute
or two on the tray, then move
5. Roll out the dough to about to a rack.
1/2 cm thick.
11. When completely cooled,
6. Cut out 16 robin bodies. If add beady black eyes and a
you do not have a suitable triangular yellow beak using
cutter, draw a template on card writing icing.
and with your adult‟s help, cut
out your robins with a knife.
7. With a small circle cutter, cut
out a circle from each robin‟s
tummy.
8. Place each robin on a lined
or greased baking tray and with
These Gingerbread house biscuits are
absolutely
delicious and great fun
to make and decorate.
1. Sieve the flour, spices and baking
soda into a large mixing bowl.
2. Chop the butter into pieces and
rub into the flour.
They are also really easy to make.
Ingredients
3. Mix in the sugar.
(Makes 10 houses)
4. Add the egg and syrup and mix
into a dough.
This makes quite a strong flavoured
gingerbread.
For younger children you may want
to reduce the amount of ginger to
1/2 a teaspoon.
 350g plain flour
 175g light soft brown sugar
 100g unsalted butter
 1 egg beaten
 1 teaspoon baking soda
 1 teaspoon ground ginger
 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
(optional)
 1/2 teaspoon mix ed spic e
(optional)
 4 tablespoons golden syrup
 Mixing bowl
 House shaped cutter or...
 Sharp knife and card template
 Writing icing
 Small sweets, chocolate chips,
glace cherries - whatever you have
in the cupboard
5. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and
place in fridge for an hour.
Remember to get an
adult to help you when
using knives and ovens
6. Remove from fridge and roll out 13. Decorate the biscuits with icing
onto a floured surface until about and other bits and pieces, using the
5mm thick.
icing.
7. Cut out your biscuits using a house 14. Thread through some ribbon or
shaped cutter or by placing a card string and tie a knot.
template on trhe gingerbread and
with adult help cut around the edges. 15. Hang on the branches of your
Christmas tree to brighten it up over
8. Pop them onto a greased baking the festive period.
tray.
9. If you intend to hang them on
your Christmas tree, make a hole at
the top with a plastic drinking straw.
10. Bake in an oven preheated to
1800c or Gas Mark 5 for 10-15
minutes, or until they have turned
golden brown.
11. They should still feel slightly soft.
12. Cool on the tray for 10 minutes
before removing to cooling rack.
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This woven snowflake makes a pretty 4. Take behind and then around the
Christmas tree decoration and is fun for front of that and the next point, behind
children of all ages to make.
that point and then over that one and
the one next to that. Keep the wool
You will need:
tight.
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5. Repeat until almost all of each stick is
covered.
 3 lolly sticks
 Wool
 Glue
Instructions:
1. Glue the lolly sticks together in the
middle so they form a star shape and
leave to dry.
2. Tie one end of the wool around one
point of the lolly stick star.
6. To finish glue the wool to a stick. Use
3. Take the wool over the next point.
another piece to make a loop and tie.
Here‟s and unusual idea for a Christmas gift - a quick Rudolph
the Red Nosed Reindeer using a wooden spoon.
You will need:
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A wooden spoon
Brown paint
1. Paint the spoon and leave to dry.
Brown foam
2. Cut two antler shapes from the
foam.
Glitter (optional)
Red pompoms
3. Glue to the bowl of the spoon. You
could add a little glitter to the antlers.
Wiggle eyes
Tinsel for the handle (optional)
Black pen
Glue
You will need:
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Instructions
A wooden spoon
Your choice of face coloured paint
White felt for dress
Felt for hands
Yellow wool
Wiggle eyes
Gold card
Gold pipe cleaner
Glue
Pink pen
Sticky tape
Glitter (optional)
4. Glue on the pompom and eyes and
draw on a mouth.
5. Now you have a dashing Rudolph to
use or just display.
Instructions
1. Paint the spoon with your choice of skin
colour and leave to dry.
2. Make the dress by cutting a quarter
circle of white felt. Roll into a cone around
the spoon. Glue around the neck and up
the back of the cone to secure.
3. Cut two arms from white felt and two
hands from the hand felt and glue hands
to the arms. Attach arms to dress.
4. Glue on some wool as hair.
5. Make a halo by twisting a pipe cleaner
into shape and taping it behind the head.
6. Cut wings from gold card and glue them
to the angel‟s back.
7. Stick on the wiggly eyes.
8. Draw on the nose and mouth.
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candle
candy
cards
chestnuts
children
Christmas
cookies
December
family
food
friends
fruitcake
gift
gingerbread
gloves
Jesus
joy
lights
merry
mittens
mouse
nativity
presents
reindeer
Santa
sled
snow
snowball
snowflakes
snowman
Can you spot
7 Differences?
Start
stable
star
stocking
tree
winter
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Directions:- In the grid below there are six pairs of
images that match exactly. Look carefully because there are
slight differences in some of the images. Can you find them all?
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