Our whole school theme for this half term has been 'Art Attack'! 

We have all really enjoyed learning about different artists and perfecting our artistic skills. 

Here are some examples of the work that we have been doing at school as part of this topic.

If your child comes to school on a bicycle or scooter they must wear a safety helmet

and once on school premises walk into school to avoid collisions with other children

or adults. Please talk to your child about road safety as we have been informed in

school that some children have crossed busy roads without looking and have nearly

been involved in an accident.

We do want our children to be safe.

Amazing Art Adventure

On Thursday 19th January, Year 3 & Year 5 visited the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston as part of the ART ATTACK topic.

During the day the children enjoyed a workshop entitled
‘Every picture tells a story’. 
During this workshop children were able to investigate relationships within paintings and bring them to life through drama and visual art.

Whilst exploring the galleries, they were able to complete many activities and investigations linked to ceramics, glass
and patterns in costumes.

We hope you enjoy reading some of the
children's comments about the trip.

I liked it when we went to the Glass Gallery because we saw pretty perfume bottles with designs on the glass.

Today marked the start of our ART ATTACK topic here at Coppull Parish!

Over the next few weeks, we will be looking at  many different artists and their work, as well as creating our very own masterpieces!

As part of our new topic, Mrs Hunt, from the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, came into school today to lead our assembly.

During the assembly, she showed us many wonderful pieces
of art work from photographs to paintings,
and even some beautiful decorative perfume bottles,
all of which can be found at the Harris Museum.

It was great to be able to look at and discuss the art work, in addition to finding out some interesting information about each one.

One of our favourite pieces was a collection of scent bottles which were donated to the Harris by a lady called Mrs French.

Did you know that the largest scent bottle collection in Britain, and one of the most important in the world, can be found at the Harris?

We all really enjoyed this assembly and it was a great way to start our
ART ATTACK topic for this half term.

Y3 and Y5 will be going to visit the Harris soon as part of
the ART ATTACK topic.

http://www.harrismuseum.org.uk/

Chocolate!  Chocolate... and more chocolate!

A big thank you  to everyone who came to school
for our Chocolate Bingo!

This evening, along with  the non-uniform managed to raise an astonishing £600.00 for school funds.

Many thanks to PAST for organising this event,
and thank you also to the parents of Reception and Year 1 who made cakes and biscuits for us to sell.

Today we were visited by the band 'The Lazy Mondays' from Lancashire Music Service,
who performed a 40 minute set of pop songs for the whole school. 

The four-piece band was made up of Debbie (vocals and keyboard),
Tony (drums), Brent (bass guitar) and Nick (guitar). 

The band played and sang a variety of songs from different decades and
got the children and staff singing in their seats. 
Some of our very own singers were invited onto the stage to perform with The Lazy Mondays. 
As you can see from their faces, they enjoyed every minute of their singing and dancing. 

Thank you to The Lazy Mondays for visiting us and giving an amazing performance!
 

This afternoon some children from Y5 and Y6 were invited to a special 
event at Coppull Primary School, where they were able to meet
the London 2012 Olympic mascot, Wenlock.

Unfortunately, Mandeville, who is the official Paralympics mascot, was unable to attend as he was busy meeting children at another school.

As well as having the chance to meet Wenlock,
we were also able to ask him a few questions whilst we were there.
We found out that he likes to throw the discus, his favourite athlete is Usain Bolt and that he is really looking forward to London hosting the Olympics next year.

It was great to meet Wenlock - we had a fantastic time!
 

Did you know?

The mascots are named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville Hospital,
a facility in Buckinghamshire that initially organised the Stoke Mandeville Games,
the precursor of the Paralympic Games.

https://www.olympic.org/photos/wenlock-and-mandeville

Today Coppull Parish went completely spotty to raise money for Children in Need. 
We were all asked to wear something spotty, from socks and tshirts, to jumpers and shoes!
There were spots everywhere!

Our favourite teddy bears were also invited to come into school with us today, which we really liked.
Some of us even had our very own Pudsey bear!

As you can see from the photographs below,
we all had a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

Overall, we managed to raise an amazing £196 for Children in Need,
so thank you to everyone who brought a donation to school. 
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/childreninneed