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This term, Year 5/6 are working on their painting skills through a number of creative activities. The last couple of sessions have been to explore how to use a mixing palette and mix appropriate colours for a sunset or sunrise picture. The children are only using primary colours plus black and…

Year 1 and 2 have been sorting, ordering, counting and understanding numbers this week.

Take a look at these photographs to see their activities ...

Our Reception children are busy doing lots of different activities getting ready to write ...

We were so happy to see Glenys return to visit us on Friday in her brand new library van.  The children and I had the opportunity to see the lovely books and decide which ones we would like to borrow. 

Glenys and the library van will visit us every three weeks on a Friday and we will be able to…

The children and I discussed ways that we should behave in order to make sure everyone stays safe, happy and ready to learn in our class. We came up with a handful of rules that are easy to remember and can be counted on one hand! 

Our class rules are that ...

1. We listen.

2. We are…

Wow what a busy and fun first week we have had back in Lower School! 

We have welcomed our nine new Reception children; Henry, James, Jon-Jnr, Reagan, Wilf, Connor, Kaitlyn, Leah and Charlotte. They have all been superstars this week and settled into school life brilliantly, well done…

The children were so excited to welcome back the Library Van to school today! They were all able to have a look and choose a book to take with them. We discussed what made us choose our books as well as what our favourite books are and why we enjoy them. I am glad to have a class that loves…

Middle school's geography this week began with revising our geographical knowledge. Children have used an atlas to locate different countries, continents, oceans, mountain ranges and cities. They have had to get used to using the atlas and finding the correct map for the correct information.
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In PE this week, Middle school have been exploring balancing points and moving in different ways.

Children have found that moving using different balancing points can be easier and harder depending on how you position your body. We have certainly had some interesting balances and movements!

This half term’s PE lessons will focus on the topic of invasion games. Today we learnt how to attack and defend in some really fun activities where we had to get past the ‘gatekeeper’ and another game where teams tried to get past each other. We learnt about being quick on our feet, using our team…

Year 5/6 had their first Science lesson of the term this afternoon and we got straight into some practical investigating. This term’s topic is Properties and Changes of Materials so we started off by explaining what it means by ‘properties’ and identifying which materials had particular…

As a continuation of the Year 6 Leavers’ Activities Week, the children were shown how to use flint and steel to light fires and then how to make a proper campfire. They then had fun roasting marshmallows and making S’Mores. There was even some campfire singing too!
Thanks to Miss Hennelly and Mrs…