On Friday 7th of March, Alderman Jacobs held their annual 'Careers Day' to learn about a range of aspirational careers throughout our community and in the wider world.

Helping Our Ukrainian Friends charity, who we supported last term with the gift boxes. Thank you Kayla for organising this and to everyone for your help/ donations.

We've had a fun-filled start to the half term with lots of engaging activities! Our theme this half term is Night and Day and we started by focusing on fire safety, bonfires, and fireworks. The children enjoyed watching a firework display recording and describing the shapes and colors they saw. We also listened to Handel's Fireworks Music and explored the different instruments in the orchestra.

In addition to our themed activities, we learned about how chocolate melts when heated and made our own chocolate sparklers with breadsticks and sprinkles- delicious and fun! To top it all off, the children had a wonderful time toasting marshmallows over a fire pit outdoors. What a fantastic start to our half term!

CHRISTMAS BOX DONATIONS 

Thank you to everyone who donated items this week. Yesterday, Mr Bennett from the 'Helping Our Ukrainian Friends' charity, Miss Neacy and a team of Class Ambassadors sorted all the gifts into boxes, wrapped in Christmas paper and wrote cards with a Christmas message from all at AJS to the children who will receive the gifts. Members of the charity are driving from Peterborough to Kiev next week and have promised to send some photos from their trip!

The Early Years children had a planetarium visit to support our new topic 'Night and Day'. They had fun learning about the Earth, sun and moon, nocturnal animals and looking at the stars in the sky at night time. Thank you to FOAJS for funding this amazing experience for us!