Do you like to hear a story before your school day ends or before you go to bed? Well you are in luck because our very own Miss Couves will be reading one of her favourite books each day and we will be showing it on the website @4pm. It all starts Tuesday! What book will she choose?

Today we have had a lovely day settling back after the sunny weekend.  The children started the day doing PE with Joe Wicks and showed the adults up including Joe Wicks who kept falling over!  They then  enjoyed doing their learning and there have been some impressive scores on the arithmetic tests - Mr Clifford will be pleased!

Due to the weather changing as of tomorrow the children made the most of being outside and played a variety of sports such as football, tennis, ping-pong and basketball.

We would like to introduce all families across the UK to The #DailyMileAtHome.  It’s an easy and fun way to keep fit and maintain good health and wellbeing for you and your children.

Instructions from the UK government are very clear – they are allowing us to take exercise outdoors, once a day, as long as we can keep a safe distance from others. Further government guidance on this can be found below.
We all need to try to be physically active and The Daily Mile at Home can help almost everyone to do this. We believe that it will be useful for children, parents and carers in helping them to look after their physical and mental health.
We already have Daily Mile guidance for schools, and now we’ve adapted it so you can use it at home and enjoy the same benefits. These come from 15 minutes or more of walking, running or jogging in the fresh air – doing it at whatever pace suits you best and wearing what you’ll feel most comfortable in.
We’d love to see you doing The Daily Mile, so be sure to post on social media using #DailyMileAtHome.

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​The final country of our round the world trip this week was Italy in Europe.  

The children started the day with their Joe Wicks workout and then went outside to water the plants in the beds, in the polytunnel and in the library.

It was time for Maths after this and then Computing where the children did some research about Italy, before using the information they had found to produce a poster about the country in English.

During lunch Jake wowed everyone with his extensive knowledge of many different sports including cricket and rugby - this was followed by another game of cricket.

The afternoon started with some mindfulness colouring before the children had a go at making ciabatta pizzas which everyone enjoyed!

We finished our week  by watching Mr Clifford's Brainiac awards video clip.

It has been a great week virtually visiting the different countries.

Mr Hawkes brings you his Sportiac for this week.

We thought that we would bring the Celebration Assembly to you this week ... so Mr Clifford has filmed himself reading out this week's winners! Mr Hawkes also filmed himself doing the Sportiac which will follow.

We have had over 1,000 clicks on the website this week and we thank you for your continued support and all of the wonderful learning you are doing at home.

So, today's country in North America was ... Jamaica.

After starting the day with some quiet reading and then the more vigorous Joe Wicks workout, the children all worked together to ensure all the plants in the polytunnel and in the library were all sufficiently watered.

It was then time for some maths and then break where the children took their kites out to fly again and had a great time doing this.

After break the children located Jamaica on our giant map of the world before using laptops to do some research about the country and then writing a paragraph about what they had found out.

During lunch time the children played cricket again and then it was time for some Art.  They found out about a Jamaican artist called Bernard Hoyes - one of the most famous artists from Jamaica - and looked particularly at one of his most famous paintings, the vibrant Dancing Ladies.  The children practised techniques for using oil pastels before having a go at drawing their own dancing lady and colouring it using the techniques they had learnt with oil pastels.  They produced some great pictures.

Our final continent tomorrow is going to be Europe.

Here are some amazing examples of Home Learning from across the year groups:

Sienna-Rose in Year 3, Callum in Year 3, Evie in Year 4 and Pavleen in Year 6

What have you been doing at home that you could share with your class teacher?

Congratulations to the Eco Council and everyone at IVJS for achieving Green Flag status again!  IVJS has now been a Green Flag Eco School since 2014: successfully renewing their application three times! 
 
This magnificent achievement has been down to the commitment of everyone at IVJS to make our school a cleaner, greener environment.  Thank you to the teachers for including environmental issues in the curriculum; every pupil who has volunteered to become a classroom monitor, recycled responsibly, picked up litter, switched off a tap or light, and our special thanks to the Eco Council for their determination to promote eco initiatives such as Switch Off Fortnight, Waste Week, Recycle Month, Walk to School Week, Clean Air Day and Road Safety at every opportunity!  We are immensely proud of everyone who has helped our school to look after our environment and our planet.  Keep up the good work and we will make a difference!

​Huge thank you to the wonderful Mrs Orr for her dedication to the cause every year!