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This week we had a fantastic afternoon hosting the small schools football tournament for its second year. Our middle school team did incredibly well and had lots of fun on such a sunny afternoon. The rest of the class came out to support them with claps, cheers and some fab banners.

Well done,…

In our geography learning we are looking at the weather and how it changes in the UK. We have started by revisiting learning about continents and where in the world the UK is. 
 

The children started by looking through atlases and talking about what they saw, they practised using an index to…

We have been reading the story ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett over the past week or so and doing lots of different writing activities linked to the story. 

The children wrote letters to Duck the main character a few days ago and put them into our magic portal in the hope that magic would carry…

After a big discussion about our topics for learning this term their children chose their role play area. It doesn’t actually link to any of our learning topics (ha, ha) but it is what the children decided they wanted and that is the most important thing! Their first request was a shoe shop which…

This afternoon the class looked at and discussed a range of Easter themed art. They talked as a group about what they could see in each picture and then went deeper by discussing how each picture was telling us something about Jesus’s victory when he rose from the dead. Maddi and Liv talked…

Today, Upper School used blindfolds for their outdoor challenges. We split into two groups again with one group working with Emilia and one with Mrs Hurley. Mrs Hurley’s group had to work with a partner who wore a blindfold and led them around a tricky trail just using verbal instructions.…

One of the phonics games our children play is called ‘Nice to meet you’. Each child has a word which is their name for the game. They greet each other with a handshake and “nice to meet you ….” Reading the word their friend is holding. It’s a great game which you can easily play at home!

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This half term in our PE lessons we are fovusing on both~

• Outdoor Adventurous Activities- teamwork and problem solving
• Fielding and Batting - Rounders

We have made the best of the lovely weather and managed some rounders this week, with the children learning to put some of their…

As part of our science topic ‘habitats’ the children found a variety of minibeasts whilst looking in micro habitats in our outdoor area and around the meadow area of our field. 
 

Our Year one and two children used their recent maths learning where we have been looking at data collection in…

After a recap about gestation periods of mammals and the growth of a human baby inside a mother, the Upper School class were introduced to the stages of human development after birth. We watched some animations of these developments, asked questions and had discussions about their own experiences.…

As part of our maths learning the children have been investigating the best way to collect data. Today they went outside to record how many birds they could spot in and around our school grounds. They decided that keeping a tally was the most effective way to record the amount. 
 

In today’s lesson the team challenges were Millipede and Cross The Swamp. 

Both activities involved the children working together to come up with a plan for how to overcome the challenges of moving across an area with limited resources and strict rules. 

In the game of Millipede, the…