The Chronicle

Create your own obstacle course!

Keep yourself active this half term by creating your own obstacle course in your home or garden.

Plan, design and complete your obstacle course and send your ideas into your teacher by Friday 23 February ready for a display.

You could photograph or video yourself completing this course – what is your record time? Can your friends/siblings/parents complete it as well? What about as a team?

Here is your task outline:

1. Choose your location – ask parents where a good place would be to build your obstacle course.

2. Plan your layout – you need a start and finish line and a stopwatch to see how fast you can complete the course. Make sure you include obstacles for climbing on, balancing on, crawling over/under/through. Make sure you draw out your plan of the course.

3. Collect the materials – think about the obstacles you are going to need, cardboard boxes, benches, skipping ropes. If you have a climbing frame or trampoline are these included as part of your obstacle course?

4. Set up the course – place your obstacles and walk through each activity to check that it is safe.

5. Create a story – use your imagination to bring the obstacle course to life, are those really pillows or are they the backs of turtles to get across the shark infested water? Is that skipping rope on the grass really a tightrope across a ravine?

Send in your plan, and some photos or videos of you completing your obstacle course to your teacher.

We would like to inform you that we have experienced some connectivity issues with our mobile network provider for Aftercare and Holiday Club services outside of normal hours. To remedy this, we have taken the necessary steps to switch to a new network provider.

Please take note of our new phone number for Aftercare and Holiday Club services outside of normal hours: 07543 164 779

We appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the School Office.

The school provides a designated car parking area for our Accessible badge holders only,  which we also allow Pregnant mothers the freedom to use.

We kindly request everyone to cooperate and follow our accessible parking regulations to create a safe and welcoming environment. By showing consideration and respect towards one another, we can positively impact and inspire others to do the same.

If you require an additional accessible parking area, please do not hesitate to contact the office.

We have been made aware of planned works by HS2 which will result in the road closure of Dalehouse Lane between Common Lane and Stoneleigh Road from 12 February to 1 March 2024.

A full road closure will be in place during these dates. Please use the signed diversion route during the closure.

Please click here for more information or visit https://www.hs2.org.uk/work-items/road-closure-on-dalehouse-lane-kenilworth/

This term, our theme is ‘SUSTAINABLE PORTRAITS’ 

Ms Holmes challenges you to create a portrait of yourself, or someone else, maybe someone you admire using recycled and sustainable resources. (The image shown is to give you an idea only of how you could achieve this). House points will be given for entering, for innovative ideas and for overall creativity.

Entering - 5 house points

3rd prize - 10 house points

2nd prize - 20 house points

1st prize - 25 house points

Work should be your own and no larger than A3.

You should demonstrate clever use of recycling and reusing resources. Work should be brought into school to Ms Holmes by Thursday 21 March.

Sustainability is key.

Professor Penguin is conscientious – a trait we should all be working towards. Creating sustainable artwork is a fabulous way to show how YOU can contribute to the planet’s future.

Please click here for further information.

Good luck everyone, can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Get CREATING!