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Our art topic for this half term is Ancient Egyptian Scrolls, inspired by our topic in history. Children have been looking at the colours and patterns often represented in ancient Egyptian art. They have been looking at how they can adapt this into a representation of themselves. Fantastic…

In our PE topic this half term we are looking at dance and the topic myths and legends. We begun with the myth of king Midas and his golden touch. Children imagined what it was like to be Midas and his daughter, Marigold, at different stages of the myth’s story. They translated these emotions and…

We had another wonderful visit from let’s go sing this week! The children in middle school loved joining in on the fun singing exercises and learning the new songs. They all did so well at learning and singing - we do have a talented lot!

In our first lesson of gymnastics, the children firstly worked in pairs to create a matched and a mirrored balance using examples on pictures around the hall. They learnt to hold still their balances for at least 3 seconds and to use a stretched, taut body. A lot of the next part of the lesson was…

Reception have been busy bees counting groups of items and playing lots of games that help with the recognition of the numerals 1-10. We have been jumping and counting, playing interactive games, playing matching games and singing different songs.

They are learning that careful counting is…

Year 1 and 2 have been so enthusiastic to learn our new handwriting! We are using a 'continuous cursive' style which means they are learning to form letters in a way that will help them join up letters in the future - when they are ready.

We started our journey with lots of fine motor skill…

We really enjoyed our second Let’s Go Sing rehearsal with Gaynor yesterday! She taught us some fun warm up songs and we loved learning the new dance moves and Makaton signs for the next set of concert songs. Don’t forget to go online and continue learning the words at home!  
 

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As part of our PSHE work, the Upper School Class have set themselves challenges to achieve something or get better at something this half term. This could be sport related or mental health related. Oliver enjoys using his Rubik’s Cubes to help him overcome difficult situations and last week he…

We have started reading a new novel in our English lessons. It is call The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Rauf. It is all about a new pupil who joins the class under mysterious circumstances and he doesn’t seem to be able to speak. The narrator of the story is one of the pupils and tries…

To introduce our first history lesson of the year, we began with some historical inquiry skills. Being a historian is a lot like being a detective, you have to build a picture based on different clues. 
To start with, children were given various clues to a mystery. Each clue told a story by…

As part of our English for this half term, the children are beginning with looking at instructions. To begin, we identified the features of instructions by trying to follow some ourselves. The instructions we had were how to fold and make an origami crab. We did very well at following the…

This week in English we are beginning to look into writing instructions. Within instructions, children may need to use prepositions. To practice our prepositions, children moved around the room, writing their own sentences with prepositions.