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Well done to our Upper School Councillors, Kial and Thomas who helped to organise and run today’s Children In Need charity event. The children ran, scooted or cycled around the school field to raise lots of money at play time today. We will let you know how much was raised next week. Thanks! 
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The children have been developing their art skills. Firstly the Year 1 and 2 children they a timed exercise where they practised looking closely at an object and doing some continuous lined drawings. 

Then we all looked closely at fireworks (whilst listening to Handel’s Music for the Royal…

Our week began excitedly recounting their experiences of Bonfire Night and lots of them enjoyed fireworks, bonfires and family fun.

We have been using our senses all week as we remembered the experiences of Bonfire Night, listened to beautiful music composed by George Frideric Handel and…

This half term we have split Upper School into two groups for PE. While one group goes outside and learns hockey skills with Corey or Pete, the other group does gymnastics in the hall with Mrs Hurley. Today the group learnt different gymnastic rolls and put a short sequence together using the…

As an extra activity to develop their skills of using their senses to explore the world around them and create great vocabulary the children played with my birthday roses that had started to die!

It was so lovely to see them enjoy an open ended task that began with them pulling the petals off…

The children worked hard to write their poems after lots of discussion and collecting of vocabulary to use. Well done everyone

To support out DT work with designing our own chocolate bar, we have been considering flavours we could use. In order to be able to market our bars effectively, we tasted the different kinds of chocolate as well as some fillings. We commented on the flavour and texture of each ingredient and…

Middle school have started a new topic in science - living things. 
We have begun by looking at different living things and considering how we could classify them. We learned that there are lots of ways we could classify living thigs. Here are a few the children came up with:
Legs or no legs.
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A fantastic well done to the three candidates who put themselves forward to be councillors and represent Middle school. 
Emily, Florence and Evie all prepared speeches outlining what their aims were as councillors and why they would be a good fit for the role. 
The three girls were all overjoyed…

Upper School had visitors from BSYM today who took the place of Helen to teach the children about Jesus the Messiah. Unfortunately, Helen wasn’t able to be with us today however Sue and Julie did a great job of standing in for her and we learnt lots of new vocabulary about the prophecy of Jesus’…

As part of PSHE, we have been learning about money, specifically how people are paid and the kinds of deductions that are made to salaries. Using the example payslip, Year 5 and 6  have explored the terms used such as 'gross' and 'net'. They been learning about income tax, council tax and National…

We had more fun than ever in our music lesson this week as we have lots of new musical instruments to use. Huge thanks to our brilliant Friends committee who have bought lots of new instruments for all the children in school with their fundraising.

Have a look at these photos to see us…