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This week we read a great story told through letters as a teacher asks her class to write to her and convince her that they are the best person to take the class’s pet rabbit home for the holidays. 
 

Our Reception children drew pictures of rabbits and explained how they would care for a…

The children all enjoyed the bunny drive on Wednesday after school! We loved rolling our dice to draw our Easter bunnies to win one of the fabulous prizes provided by the friends. What a wonderful event to bring everyone together! Big thank you to the friends for organising and running the…

For our art project of ‘3D sculpture’ we have used old cardboard to create some Greek temples. 
children made columns and roves and attached them together. They were bonded with paper mache. 

This week Leah and Ellie were are our certificate winners for super learning, well done girls. 

As we have been learning about Ancient Greece in our history topic, we have been investigating what life was like in different city states. 
In this lesson, we compared Athens and Sparta.

Children split into four groups, each affiliated with either Athens or Sparta. They researched reasons…

As our science topic on food chains and digestion comes to a close, the children took part in the most disgusting model of the digestive system! 
We started off with some food (bread) and chopped and crushed it using our incisors and molars (scissors and a potato masher). 
We added saliva…

This Thursday, the children had the fantastic treat of having Charlie and Lola author Lauren Child visit the school for the second time! We were so excited for her visit! 
Lauren talked to the children and signed their very own, special books!

We have been doing lots of maths whilst decorating for Easter this week. The children have sorted eggs into different groups by colour, size, speckles, not speckles and other ways! They have improved their fine motor skills by picking up and placing the buttons on the pathways from the eggs making…

Our Reception children have made some beautiful Easter cards. After learning about why we celebrate Easter they made a scene celebrating new life. 
 

Here are a few photos of the children starting the finger painting …

Well done to our certificate winners this week!

Year 2 are learning about multiplication and division in maths at the moment. This week they were exploring arrays. 
 

Our Reception children have been very busy learning this week. They have been doing all sorts of different activities here is a photo of them after they had created a whole world which they used to tell some fantastic stories.

Well done Reception superstars!