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• Sporting Winners

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  Cherry Hinton was shortlisted for a School Games Award and has just been awarded a Bronze School Games Mark. This award is a government led initiative to recognise schools with a commitment to develop competition across school and into the community. Our daily ACT ACTIVE and related challenges have earnt us recognition. 

  

• Jubilee Celebrations

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  School celebrated on May 20th with a Best Crown competition, a tea of cucumber sandwiches, cake and squash and a whole school ACT ACTIVE session of the Lindy Hop, a dance popular at the time of the Queen's Coronation. The Eco-warriors also planted a new cherry tree, helped by Liam Wayne a former pupil at the school. He planted a cherry tree when he was at the school but it was blown down by the strong winds earlier this year. It was good to welcome him back. 

  We were also lucky to have a photographer from the Cambridge Independent come to school to record our event. We headlined the article in the paper outlining all Jubilee events in the region. And we had fun! Thank you to our Cherry Carers and Mrs Northfield for organising the celebrations. 

  

• Eco-Warrior action

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  The Eco-warriors have decided to try to tackle plastic waste in school. Each class was given a plastic bag to put their plastic waste in for a week, there was even a bag in the staffroom. At the end of the week they collected up all the waste. It seems the staff had the biggest bag. 

  As a result, Eco-warriors are now looking into how we could recycle crisp packets. 

  

• Our MP visits

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  On Friday 15th July, Daniel Zeichner Cambridge's MP visited year 5 as part of their 'Can I persuade you?' topic in which they learn about parliament. They put him through his paces with their questions. His comment at the end was that the quality and level of questions from Year 5 was really impressive. Some of the questions were:

  Are the green benches comfy?

  Have you asked for a law which has changed Cambridge?

  If you could pass one law what would it be?

  Are there any ridiculous laws which should be removed?

  Is being an MP stressful?

  What was your first day as an MP like?

  

• Head for the Day 2022

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  Ms Haiselden was out of a job on the last Tuesday of term when Jessica and her team took over.

  Here is their election manifesto too. 

  

• Goodbye to staff

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  We said good bye to Miss Valerie and Mrs Ashraff and to Sue Hall, who has worked as a TA in school for over 25 years; what service!

  

• Silly hats in the hot weather

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  On Tuesday 19th temperatures were over 38C so to keep cool Year 2 made handkerchief hats. Here are Ms Haiselden and Miss Louise modelling their hats-thanks Year 2!

  

• Creative Arts Week July 2022

  Thu 28 Jul 2022

  The theme of our annual creative arts week was 'Drawing Us All Together'. Children experienced drawing in many forms using materials and surfaces they had not used before. They used their hands, eyes and heart to express themselves. Here is some of their creations.