A festive theme to GYM homework inspires pupils.

The sparkly spirit of Christmas was evident in King’s St Alban’s this week as the children shared their GYM (Grow Your Mind) homework projects chosen from a grid of fun-filled, festive activities.

As ever, the children at King’s St Alban’s enjoyed taking to the kitchen and baking Christmas treats from around the world. The children (and staff!) thoroughly enjoyed tasting the delicious goodies that were brought in, which included Gingerbread Men, Christmas Pudding Cookies and delicious Apple Strudel Cake, to name just a few.

The children demonstrated their super arts and crafts skills with some fabulous Christmas Trees created from different materials and intricate paper snowflakes of all shapes and sizes. Other brilliant projects included thoughtfully hand-crafted Christmas Cards to send to friends and family, beautiful snow globes and pieces of ice art, accurate calculations of the number of gifts in the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, colourful posters of Merry Christmas in numerous languages and a wonderful model of Rudolph created from logs and sticks.

A popular choice from children of all ages was creating a Christmas tree ornament for the annual competition. The entries so far have been beautifully varied and constructed from many different materials. The ornaments are now adorning both the Prep and Pre-Prep Christmas Trees for all to admire. There is still time to enter the competition if you would like to take part. Simply make your own ornament and make sure it’s labelled with your name and class and brought into school by Friday 9th December. The winners will be announced at the end of term, so stay tuned!

Well done to all of the children who took part in GYM homework this weekend; we clearly have some very creative pupils in our midst!