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We were so excited to have a visitor to our RE lesson this week. Mrs Hurley’s friend Sarah came into school with her brand new baby, Florence, to talk to Year 3 and 4 about how her life (and the life of the people around her) has changed since her baby was born. 
The children were brilliant at…

Our Reception superstars started their six week course learning how to ride balance bikes, strengthening their muscles and improving their balance skills. Take a look at these photos from their first session today. 
 

In our gymnastics lessons the children are learning how to travel in different ways using their hands and feet for support. They have been practicing caterpillar walk, frog jumps into a walk and bunny hops.  They have all been learning how to do a tuck jump as well. 
 

Take a look at this…

This week, Middle School have returned to number lines in order to get to grips with them a little more confidently and comfortably.

We started with a Tiny Turtle challenge, which needed everyone to discuss whether numberlines ALWAYS go up in 1’s, 10’s and 100’s…

Everyone agreed that there…

Middle School were treated to a fabulous Stone Age day this week! They learnt so much and it really helped to develop their historical detective skills.

We started the day getting to grips with chronology by exploring how INCREDIBLY LONG the Palaeolithic time lasted in comparison to 5000 years…

Well done to all of Autumn 1 sharers! We have enjoyed learning about your interests and skills! It has been wonderful to see the confidence and communication skills of those who have shared…as well as seeing the enthusiasm from their listeners and the question-askers.

Well done, Middle…

Upper School started reading and studying a new book this week called Otto, Autobiography of a Teddy Bear. They made lots of predictions and inferences about the characters and setting and today we produced freeze frames of a scene in the story. Once they showed this to the class, I ‘woke the…

In our Science lesson this week, the children learnt that light travels in straight lines. They explored this fact by using torches and mirrors. They then learnt about how we see. Using yellow string, the children made their own models of how the light travels in a straight line to an object,…

Our Reception children have been learning lots of different things in maths recently, measuring, comparing and making patterns. Here are some photographs of the children creating repeating patterns with natural resources outside. 
 

In our Geography lessons we have been learning the names of the seven continents and five oceans of the world. We have been investigating cold places in our quest to decide whether we would prefer to live in a hot or cold place. 
 

Today we learnt where the Equator is and what it means, then…

So much great learning is happening everyday in Lower School, we are so busy I often don’t get chance to take photos! Here are a few of our clever Reception children writing numbers 1 to 5. 
 

We were very lucky this week when Sam, Luca and Rafa’s Daddy came into school to tell us all about his job being a vet. It was a great way to round off our science learning about animals this half term.

We learnt more about how to look after our pets at home, the dangers that face them and how…