Private School News

WHITE HOUSE SCHOOL NEWS – JANUARY 2008

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Year 6 had a wonderful demonstration of Tae Kwondo recently and the girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

The skipping workshop was a great success. An early morning skipping activity will start after half term.
“Year 2 in action”

Learning in Action visited White House
Louise Woodall managed to enthral Year 5 with tales of life in the Rainforest. She explained what it was like to live in the Amazon. “We listened to music and she told us legends of the different tribes.” A Martin

Year 2 children were captivated when she pretended to be a person whose house was destroyed in the Fire of London. “We asked her lots of questions and she made us feel she had really been there.”
D Bellamy

Year 5 visited the Living Rainforest
“It was interesting to see all the different plants and animals in the Rainforest and we enjoyed drawing the animals” I Phillips

Year 1 visited the National Gallery
”It was excellent,” A Murphy. “I loved the picture of the flowers by Van Gogh”
“I liked the picture of “The Bathers”. I thought the dog on the beach was cute.” E-M Eighteen.

Year 6 visited the National Portrait Gallery
“We were able to choose a painting to draw using pastels.” R Biscoe
“The talk was good and it was interesting to discover how the portraits were painted. I enjoyed looking at the portrait of J K Rowling.” B Pope

Year 3 visited the Look Out Centre in Bracknell
“We listened to a talk on testing materials and investigations.” M Duckworth
“We learnt what the word classify means.” M Hammond.
“It was a really enjoyable morning.” C Gittins