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As part of ouir topic: Enchanted Woodland, we have been studying fowers and plants. In art we have been focussing on artist Vincent van Gogh. We learnt about him and the particular style he paints with. We were amzed to find out that he doesent paint in long strokes like us but has very short…

This week Year 1 have been learning about the importance of the bible to Christians. We were very excited to have Reverend David Brooks come to visit us to talk about the bible and answer our questions.

The children came up with some very interesting questions such as 'Who wrote the bible?'…

What a fabulous World Book Day! The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  They entered school today at platform 9 and 3/4'S and were met by Harry potter (cardboard cut out I'm afraid).  Each child was placed into a house and they had to earn house points all day.  The winning house will be…

The children in Year 3 Octopus were given a challenge!  They had to program the Beebots to move from one object to another.  They could use a left and right turn, forward or backward.  They had a great fun and had to use their knowledge of algorithms as well as estimation.  The children had to…

In English, Year 4 are reading Shakespeare's The Tempest. The play is all about a powerful wizard called Prospero who controls the magical inhabitants of a dessert island using his ancient spell book, staff and mystical spirit servants. We have been using the text as inspiration for creative…

What a memorable day! Year 6 set off on Monday morning (dressed as evacuees from WW2) with their rationed lunches tucked away in their hand-made gas mask boxes. They really did look the part! On arrival at the museum, the children were immediately engaged in a historical role-play day where the…

This week we have started our new topic 'The Scented Garden'. As part of this topic we are learning about the traditional tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. 

We started our story telling by bringing the story to life using freeze frames and role play. We worked in small groups to retell parts of…

In Year 2 this half term our topic is the Scented Garden. This week we have been learning about plants and we visited the school sensory garden to look at the Spring flowers. We will be learning about plants and how they grow through our science lessons. We we able to label the parts of a plant…

Here are some more photographs from our visit. 

Year 3 Seahorses have been learning all about fairy tales this week in English. We have been reading the fairy tales of The Three Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel and the Princess and the Pea. We identified the key features of fairy tales, what the similarities and differences were and had a try…

Year 3 Seahorses had some very special visitors today! The beautiful birds of prey came to visit us from Wise Owl Bird Sanctuary. They brought with them a variety of birds including the barn owl, little owl, eagle owl, harris hawk and American Kestral. The birds started off our topic in a very…

In maths this week Foundation have been learning all about numbers and how to count. We have also been learning how to find one more and one less.  We were counting out sweets in a bag and matching them to the correct numeral and we also worked out one more and one less. 

The cheeky…