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Sabden Spotlight Contact us: readallaboutit@sabden.lancs.sch.uk SMALL SCHOOL BIG STORIES Autumn 1 2021 Outstanding Outdoor Opportunities! Exciting changes happened at Sabden Primary School over the summer – it now has a new spectacular outdoor area for nursery children! We went to investigate. The nursery children have a new outdoor classroom, along with a new area to play in. There is a marvellous mud kitchen, a super sandpit and lots of areas to paint and draw. We asked Mrs Scott, the creator, all about it! The new outdoor area used to have some old playing equipment on but it was time for a change! Mrs Scott created the outdoor area over the summer, and it took her a full week! She really enjoyed making the area. Her favourite parts are the toadstool and the fairy house – we saw the nursery children playing with the fairy house and having a fairy tea party. Mrs Scott reports that the eight nursery children love exploring all the different areas. There are lots of role play toys like the car wash, the vehicles and the washing line for hanging up the washing! The area has a fantastic reading den as well as plenty of areas to shelter in if it rains! The children really like being outside all the time. Sabden Primary School is so lucky to have such an amazing outdoor area. By Hannah Wilkinson Dinner shortages in Lancashire Schools As you may of heard there has been a shortage of school meals in Lancashire because there are less lorry drivers due Covid 19 and Brexit. This means our normal school meals have been changed so every single day the option is sandwich, jacket potato or soup. Lancashire County Council has promised to make the meals as healthy as possible. We have interviewed Georgie Smith from Year 5. Did you enjoy the school dinners before the shortage? I didn’t really like them I only liked the jacket potato and the sausage rolls. Do you enjoy the new school dinners? I enjoy the sandwiches but it is boring and non-nutritional. Do you enjoy the old or new school dinners more? I preferred the old school dinners more because they gave you more of a healthy option. If you knew this would happen again would you cross over to packed lunch? No I would not. By Sam

HOUSEPOINT SYSTEM We have yet another new addition for Sabden Primary. Our wonderful head teacher Mrs “Magical” Maskell has introduced a fun way to motivate our students. The new housepoint system uses four clear boxes with little slots in top. Every time a pupil does something which is ‘above and beyond’ they are awarded a housepoint. This is then put into the box and at the end of each half term the points are counted and the winning house get a special treat. There are four houses with magical names - Griffins, Phoenix, Dragons, Unicorns. Each house is led by an elected house captain. MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING Did you come to the Macmillan coffee morning on Friday the 24th September 2021? We had one right here at Sabden Primary School! Lots of people came to our school hall to drink coffee and eat delicious cakes and biscuits that the children, parents and staff kindly donated for this wonderful cause. This charity provides physical, emotional and financial support to help people with cancer live a life as fully as they can. Sabden Primary School raised a whopping £380! Well Done and thankyou to all those who got involved. FAMILY FRIDAY FUN On Friday 1st October 2021 parents came into Reception class to see their children do activities and to play with them. Children had fun with their family and friends. They played with toys and showed parents around their class. There were 8 parents there at the Family Friday fun! Everyone had such fun playing with their family members! Kids played with their parents and had fun talking and showing what they do inside school. They showed their family their amazing work and did some dances! They read books, showed what reading rockets they were on. Every term we do a family Friday fun for you parents/family! By Thomas and Erin

Schools successful toy sale! As part of Enterprise Week the children in Key Stage 2 held a toy sale on Friday 1st of October in the school hall. It was £1 to rent a table per pupil to set up their unwanted, unused toys, books, films, costumes and many more items. Once the stalls were set up children from different classes were invited into the school hall to buy exciting new clean toys! Everybody got some savings to put in their piggy bank from the toy sale. Everybody tried their best to sell their toys to make some savings. Hannah from Hawthorn class says “it was a very exciting event and it was really busy”. By Olive Sunter Sabden Primary’s New Playground On Tuesday 12th October 2021, the children at Sabden were finally allowed to use their amazing school playground. It has been filled up with lots of exciting equipment to play on including a trim trail and lots more interesting places to enjoy break time. The pupils love the new yard! The monkey bars are really popular and there are lots of challenging places to balance, crawl and climb. The cosy,wooden hut is a lovely place to relax and read a brilliant book from the school library. Fancy a game of football? No problem, there’s still space for that too! “It’s a great way to keep active and entertained and all the children are very grateful for it.” said Samuel from Yr6. by Ava

New School Council at Sabden Did you know that Sabden Primary School has a fantastic new school council? The people in it represent the school by doing things such as; organising fun events, collecting ideas from other people about school related issues, and they have meetings on Wednesdays every couple of weeks. They have already helped to organise some of the Christmas events! Grace from Hawthorn class who is a member of the school council says “Being in the school council is really good fun. I enjoy it a lot.” The school council members are Tilly, Annabelle, Imogen, Georgie, Ibrahim, Grace, Leah and Hajra. Don’t worry if you don’t know who they are, they can be identified by their school council badge that is displayed on their school jumper. If you have any ideas that you would like to share please get in touch with a school council member. by Hannah War Paws Welly Walk On Friday 15th October Sabden Primary School had a welly walk around the Sabden countryside. Everyone was invirted inclusing parents and dogs. Visitors had to donate £2.00 to come on the walk and that money went to the dogs and cats in dangerous countries and places where there are wars. Everyone enjoyed the walk including the dogs. Over 40 parents and family came on the walk and all of the dogs behaved themselves really well, apart from my dog Lucy who kept pulling on the lead! We raised £100 for War Paws so a great big thank you to everyone who came. If you want to know more about War Paws please google https://warpaws.org/ by Grace Amazing After School Clubs This half term we have had loads of amazing after school clubs including Vigor boarding, Dance, Drama, football and art. We had some very nice teachers come in to do this including Mrs Pickup and Lewis. Anabelle, year six, loved vigor boarding and loved the challenges. Imogen, year five, said art club was amazing and she would defiantly go again. There are lots of more exciting clubs coming up next term for everyone’s taste so if you missed any this term try some next term. By Ava

Amazing Art Gallery The children at Sabden Primary School have been very busy creating their very own art gallery. Their amazing work is on display in the school hall. This includes clay models, self portraits, felt sunflowers rainbow squares, abstract art and many more amazing art pieces. “I really enjoyed making a patch work quilt.” said Hannah from Hawthorn class. Hannah rated the art gallery a 5 out of 5. The children were inspired by artists such as Alma Thomas, Faith Ringgold, Hannah Hoch, Barbra Hepworth ,Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Herold, Yayoi Kusama and Kenojuak Ashevak. by Olive

We went to interview Mrs Maskell in her office. We wanted to know about her life outside of school and when she isn’t being a Headteacher. If you weren’t a teacher what would you be? Singer. I would sing very loudly just like Florence and the Machine. I would sing in stadiums and everyone would sing along. What’s your favourite holiday destination? I have been very lucky to have travelled to lots of places around the world. A couple of my favourites are France and Sweden. My least favourite holiday was in Marrakech in Morocco. I found it all a bit dusty and scary. Where were you born? I was born in Manchester. When I was 3 years old my family moved to Scotland and when I was 10 I came back to England. Did you have a packed lunch or school dinner? When I went to school the dinners were horrible so I had packed lunches. My mum used to make me ham sandwiches and sometimes egg sandwiches. I used to hate the egg sandwiches though as she just used to slice an egg and put it on the bread, she didn’t make egg mayonnaise for me! At Sabden Primary the school dinners are really nice so sometimes I have one of them now. Children are much luckier than I was. What entertains you? Something funny. I like to watch things on TV like Gone Fishing, When I was younger I used to really laugh at a TV programme called Vic Reeve’s Big Night Out – that used to make me howl. I used to like Strictly Come Dancing but I fast forward all the boring bits now so it’s not as good. What do you do at home? I’m very good at relaxing. I like to sleep and potter around the house. I do a lot of cooking and some baking and at weekends I like to go out for lunch. I like going to places nearby like the Lakes and the Yorkshire Dales with Mr Maskell and Molly the dog. When I’m at home I am a mum and a wife, I’m not a Headteacher. Olive and Hannah’s Halloween Howlers What was your favourite subject at school? When I was at school I liked English and History. Now I like teaching those subjects but I also like Art and Design too. What were your favourite books when you were young? I loved the Laura Ingells Wilder Books “The Little House on the Prairie”, I also enjoyed the Mrs Pepperpot stories too. What is your favourite animal? Of course it’s a Black Cocker Spaniel called Molly. She is my most favourite animal ever. By Thomas and Erin What’s a vampires favourite food? Spookghetti ! What is in a ghost’s nose? Boo-gers. What does a panda ghost eat? Bam-BOO!

Halloween Traditions by Ava Halloween is very exciting! Trick or Treating is a great Halloween tradition where people dress up as spooky characters and knock on doors for sweet treats. Many people bake delicious Halloween recipes to share with their neighbours. The custom of trick-or-treating on Halloween may come from the belief that supernatural beings, or the souls of the dead, roamed the earth at this time and needed to be appeased. It may otherwise have originated in a Celtic festival, held on 31 October–1 November, to mark the beginning of winter. RecipE for Halloween cookies! Do you fancy a Halloween cookie? Well if you do read on for a spooky yummy treat! Ingredients • 250g/9oz unsalted butter, softened • 250g/9oz golden caster sugar • 2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten • ½ tsp vanilla extract • 500g/1lb 2oz plain flour • red and black food colouring (optional) • 1 tsp baking powder • Halloween-themed cookie cutters • red, white and black writing icing • 200g/7oz ready-to-roll fondant icing • 1 tbsp apricot jam, warmed with 1tsp water Method 1. Beat together the butter and sugar in a large bowl, preferably using an electric mixer, until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla extract. (If the mixture looks a little curdled, add a spoonful of the flour.) If you’re using food colouring, add a few drops to the mixture. 2. Sift together the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Stir the flour into the butter mixture and work into a dough using floured hands. Turn onto a floured work surface and knead into a ball (the dough will be quite wet). Divide the dough into two portions, wrap in cling film and leave to chill in the fridge for at least one hour. 3. Roll the dough out to a 0.5cm/¼in thickness on lightly floured work surface. (It’s best to roll out one portion of the dough at a time, leaving the remainder in the fridge.) Cut shapes out with the Halloween cutters. Take a few limbs and heads off the gingerbread man for added gore. 4. Place the cookies onto the baking tray, leaving a gap between them in case they spread a little. 5. Bake for 12-15 minutes, leave on the tray for 10 minutes and then move to a wire rack to finish cooling. 6. Once cool, let your imagination run wild. Use the red writing icing along the edges of the 7. missing limbs and heads as blood. For the skeletons and mummies, roll the fondant icing out to a 0.5cm/¼in thickness on a work surface dusted with icing sugar and cut out shapes using the same cutters as the cookies. Brush the cookies with the warmed apricot jam and stick the icing onto the cookies. Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3. Line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.

The Book Review by Hannah An elephant in the garden by Michael Morpurgo This amazing story is set in the middle of world war two. A lady called Elizabeth tells her story of when she was little and she had to tirelessly run away from their British enemies that bombed her house and her treasures. Struggling through snow and facing enemies will they survive the raging war? The Borrowers by Mary Norton This is a mysterious story all about some strange tiny people that call themselves the Borrowers. Now the Borrowers like to keep themselves to themselves and they hadn’t been seen in years. But when Arriety makes friends with “The boy upstairs” what will happen? The Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Proyson Mrs Pepperpot is a lady who wakes up to find herself the size of a pepperpot. When she is the size of a pepperpot she can talk to animals and in most of the stories she helps them. Her husband doesn’t like her shrinking and often loses her. Once she tried to buy a gift for her husband but she accidentally found herself on top of a bonfire sitting on a firework! YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK Come to Yorkshire sculpture park and see the amazing Barbara Hepworth’s work. You can also go to the brilliant café and see the gift shop. You can check out Henry Moor a famous sculpture artist. Walk across the amazing bridge and under if you go over the bridge you can see the fast flowing river. See the ducks and the amazing ducklings on the enormous lake. Wander through the dark forest and have a picnic on the beautiful field with the picnic benches. Have a look at the funky rabbit. You can also admire the sculpture of an ice cream made out of fruit. Try to find the high heels made out of pans and pan lids. by Noah Harvest Season On Friday 15 October Sabden Primary School had a special Harvest assembly where we talked about how we can help other people who are having difficulties in being able to get and buy food. We brought in non perishable food and household items that we could donate to the Ribble Valley Food bank in Clitheroe. We were really surprised about the amount of food brought in and we want to say thank you to all the mum and dads who bought food to help others. by Hannah and Olive

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