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Today the children in Upper School were introduced to our new topic, Evolution and Adaptation.
We started off by learning what adaptation in nature means for plants and animals.

Next we learned briefly about Charles Darwin’s theory of adaptation after he studied the 16 species of finches on…

Our Year one and two children learnt how to stay safe this afternoon and made a fire plan to how to escape from their bedroom if there is a fire.

This morning was very ‘productive’ as the class did their first read through and decided parts for the end of year production of School Daze. Everyone was so encouraging and supportive of each other which made the process really easy for distributing parts appropriately. After all that hard work,…

Today we went out using the compass to observe what we could see in different directions. 
 

We have been revisiting colour mixing seeing which secondary colours are made from the primary colours. 
 

Taking inspiration from Jasper John’s painting ‘Numbers in Colour’ that he painted in 1958 - 1959 the children used letters from their names instead of numbers and practised their colour…

Whilst the Year 6s completed their SATs tests on Monday and Tuesday morning, the Year 5 children spent time independently preparing presentations about a topic of their choice. They could use Power Point or paper and used their laptops and own knowledge to develop their ideas. After the Reading…

We really love borrowing books from the library van when it comes to visit!

Lots of great maths learning taking place through play with this activity. The children were comparing, measuring and counting whilst pouring, scooping and filling!

The children have been creating shapes and their own pictures outdoors this week …

Lots of maths counting, comparing size, colour matching and ordering has been happening this week as the children rescued the bears from the pit! 
 

The children have been exploring outside this week looking for and collecting signs of spring as our geography focus has been on seasons. They made journey sticks and drew maps recording where they collected items for their sticks. 
 

On Tuesday afternoon, the Small Schools Football Tournament took place at our school with Treales and Weeton Schools attending. Eight children from Y5/6 were chosen to participate in the competition (Nathaniel, Joseph, Maddi, Alex W, William, Tom, Reuben and Ben) and they made us all very proud. 
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