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This half term we have started our new topic, Urban Pioneers and exploring about light and dark.  The children have been finding out about a range of light sources and how the moon is not a light source.  They also explored how shadows are made.  Thankfully we managed to get a sunny day which was…

The children in year 3 Octopus have been working with shapes all week during their Maths Lessons.  We started looking at all the 3D shapes, and named their properties and their actual names.  By the end of the week the children were given cubes to make cuboids and they had to use different methods…

Year 3 performed their class assembly to the school and parents.  They told the story of St George, explaining who he was and what he had done.  The children acted out the Myth of St George of how he slayed a dragon to save the princess.  They all had a speaking part during the assembly and did…

In Maths this week, Year 4 have been investigating FACTORS!

We began by using equipment such as cubes to group numbers in different ways as arrays. 

This helped us to find and list every factor of the numbers we were investigating before organising them into factor pairs. 

We created…

As part of our enrichment activity this half term, Year 3 Seahorses will be taking part in Djembe drumming sessions! This week was our first session where we started to learn how to pick up and hold the drum. We experimented with the different sounds which the drum can make and started to learn…

Year 3 Seahorses have been looking at a variety of maps this week. We found out more about what a key is and why it is so important to have a key on a map. We looked at a variety of maps and interpreted the information from the key. We found out so many key facts!

We created our own maps…

Year 3 have started to look at graffiti and watched a video where an artist modelled how to graffiti your name. We decided to copy this and did so to our names! We had so much fun copying the technique! Our finished work has gone up in our classroom on our new topic display. We thought parents…

At the beginning of summer term we started off our new topic of Urban Pioneers with our memorable experience. We went on a walk of our local area specifically looking for examples of urban artwork. We saw that there were some examples of artwork created by artists which help to make the local area…

Year 4 have made an excellent start to their new topic, Traders and Raiders! We began the topic by building Saxon ships long enough and strong enough to carry the whole team across the North Sea! We planned out our boats and decided on different ways to strengthen the structure using sellotape and…

Foundation Stage have really enjoyed learning about St Geroge's Day today. 

We started the day by learning about who Saint George was and the famous story about him slaying the evil dragon. We then learned some interesting facts about why we celebrate St George's Day and enjoyed making lots…

Summer term - Beachcombers

This term we will be learning all about the beach. We started our topic by watching a real life video of a typical day at the beach. We have been researching all the things we might see on teh beach.

 In literacy we have been reading the story 'The Snail and the…

Last week we had a very special delivery. 7 eggs arrived in foundation stage. We watched and watched then finally on Wednesday morning we saw a little crack and at 9:05 we had our first chick which was quickly named 'Flash'. Later that afternoon we had our second little crack and saw the birth of…