A Visit From The Postman

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Today we were very lucky to have a visit from Anthony Roberts, a local postman who came to tell us all about his job. In our English lessons we have been reading the book 'The Jolly Postman' to inspire our writing and so we were excited to welcome a real, jolly postman into school!

Before the…

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Happy Birthday Emily!

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Happy 7th birthday Emily, we hope you have a lovely birthday tea tonight!

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First week back ...

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Happy New Year! We are excited to be back and start Spring Term. 

Our first topic this half term is called ‘The Place Where I Live’ where we will be learning lots of new geography and history skills.

 

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Asking for help

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In our RE lesson today we asked the question: What would the world be like if everyone was helpful to each other?

We read the story of Moses and learnt that God wants us to be helpful and to ask for help.

Playing a fun dressing up game, we discovered that tricky tasks can be made much easier…

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Party Fun

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This morning Upper School classes enjoyed their annual Christmas parties. Much fun was had by all as they played a variety of games, the favourite being an Egyptian themed game where the had to ‘mummify each other using toilet roll! The results were quite impressive!

 

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Christmas Party

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We had lots of fun playing games!

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Egyptian Escapades

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Upper School have had a great term learning about the Ancient Egyptians. As well as finding out about Egyptian gods and  daily life during the rule of the Pharaohs, the children particularly enjoyed learning about the process of mummification and Tutankhamun. Many children have made models of…

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Christmas Crafts

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This year the children learnt new painting techniques by printing with potatoes, objects, strips of card and their fingers to create different effects and make a great snow picture. 

They also finished off their clay decorations by painting them. Have a look at these photographs of the learning…

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Haring Clay Figures

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Keith Haring also made sculptures, after looking at these the children turned their favourite sketch of a dancing figure into a clay sculpture!

Progressing from the skills they learnt whilst making their Christmas tree decorations the children learnt how to make a pinch pot to create slip with…

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Clay Christmas Tree Decorations

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As part of our art project of learning how to work with clay we have made some tree decorations to take home.

Miss Haynes explained how we use different tools and the children experimented to achieve different effects. 

Once they have dried the children will paint them, add a ribbon and take…

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Keith Haring Art

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We have been studying pop art made by Keith Haring during the 1980s and had great fun listening and dancing  to 1980s hip hop music that inspired Haring.

Linking to the science learning in our topic Fighting Fit we looked at the nhs website Change4life and noticed that the artwork on there is…

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The Boy At The Back Of The Class

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Year 5 and 6 children have been reading the powerful story called ‘The Boy At the Back Of The Class’. Today in Worship linking to our theme of compassion the children taught us about Syria and the troubles that the people who live there face.

The children helped us understand why many people…

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