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On Monday 7th October, the children and staff came together to celebrate Harvest Festival. The Head Boy, Head Girl, and their deputies, led a whole school assembly. They taught everyone about why we celebrate Harvest each year and why it is important to do so. As part of our celebration, we asked the children and their families to make a donation for the Dover Food Bank. Thank you to everyone who brought something in. You can see a video of the generous donations on our school Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/100076119606942/videos/500792882827393  

This morning our wonderful Eco Warriors led a whole school assembly about their new project - Bug Houses. The Eco Warriors asked the children to bring in things from home to help build bug houses in readiness for winter. Some of the items they asked for were: pine cones cardboard toilet rolls newspaper small sticks dry leaves string bark  

On a sunny (and very hot) Sunday in August White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School tried something new. The school entered a float into Dover Carnival. Children from Year 4 and 5 were invited to take part. Children were invited into school during the school holidays to create their own costumes. The theme of this years float was 'Books and reading'.  A huge thank you to the children from White Cliffs Primary and Nursery school who took part. You were amazing and represented the school beautifully. We are delighted to say White Cliffs came FIRST in their category! We need to say a big thank you to lots of people who helped make this possible: Amber Rescue in Folkestone for providing the float Deal Scaffolding for making the frame The amazing staff who planned, organised and made all this happen!

Year 3 have been looking at skeletons and bones in science and this week investigated whether a longer femur length (thigh bone) meant that you could jump further. They had to think about making our test fair, jumping in the same way, starting behind the line and measuring from the same place on everyone's feet. They found that the length of the femur didn't affect the length of the jump, and some of the children with the shortest leg measurements actually had the longest jumps.

Fledglings have been making turtle and jellyfish themed sun catchers. Have a look at pick up, they are fantastic!

This week at Be a Bee Hero Club, the children drilled holes in wood to make a house area for the bees and bugs. They all used an electric drill and were very sensible. Mr Mills is going to put them high up on the walls in the playground.  

Thank you to everyone who came to the Sports Days. The children performed wonderfully, despite the high temperatures.

The sun was shining, and fun was had by all of Year 4 on Tuesday when Ash from Roman Britain Schools visited to bring their learning to life. The children learnt about the Roman army and why they were so successful, looking at their armour and even trying it on! Next, the children were shown different aspects of Roman life and Ash cooked a 2000-year-old lentil stew on an open fire. Afterwards, the children looked at different Roman artefacts, trying to discover the red herring, before finally becoming a centurion and trying to survive in battle.   "My favourite part was trying on the armour and using the wax tablets because it was fun trying out the items the Romans used. Also, seeing and feeling what it would like to be a Roman for the day." – Jasmine