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Nursery enjoy Circus Stories Programme!

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Mrs B. Russell • 0 Comments

This term, Nursery have enjoyed taking part in a Circus Stories Programme. They have listened to and joined in with some fabulous stories read by Megan from Seven Stories and they have been taught some new and exciting circus skills such as plate spinning, flower sticks and juggling by Paul from Circus Central. We have had lots of fun so far and we still have more stories and more skills to learn over the next couple of weeks! Here are some pictures of the children in action!

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Whole School Newsletter 21 June 2021

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Mr P. Brown • 0 Comments

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Traditional Tale Stories

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Mrs B. Russell • 0 Comments

Last Term, our Nursery children enjoyed looking at Traditional Tale Stories. We talked about the different characters and how each story has a beginning, middle and end. We did lots of exciting activities linked to each story including making up our own characters, choosing our own ending to the story and tasting yummy gingerbread men. … Continue Reading

Moving Song Inspires Year 6 Suffragette Writing

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Mr P. Jeffrey • 0 Comments

Year 6 used the song ‘Derby Day’ by Maz O’Conner to inspire them to write a narrative from the point of view of the character used to narrate the story. The song is about a young boy who attends the 1913 Derby with his father but then witnesses the terrible death of the Suffragette Emily… Continue Reading

Year 2 100 skip Challenge

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Mrs A. Hagon • 0 Comments

Year 2 have taken part in a four week skipping initiative. We have learnt so many different ways to skip. Our skills have improved so much. Our challenge was to learn to skip in 10 different ways to raise money for Malawi. Mr Brown will now donate £100 to the school project in Kazomba Village… Continue Reading

Year 2 Visit To Broxfield Farm in Northumberland.

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Mrs A. Hagon • 0 Comments

Year 2 took a trip to Broxfield Farm where we learned all about the countryside from the local farmer; Mr. Thompson. Year 2 were very excited as we travelled to the countryside and were able to point out all the animals they saw and describe the rural habitat. While at the farm we took… Continue Reading

The oldest tree in school…

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Mrs G. Villalobos • 0 Comments

Today, nurture group were tasked with finding the oldest tree in the school grounds. A tree expands by roughly 2 cm a year, so we worked out that if we measured all around the tree trunk and divided the measurement by 2, we could work out the age of the tree. We used tape measures… Continue Reading

Chalk Art

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Mrs G. Villalobos • 0 Comments

This week in Year 4 nurture group, we have been creating art inspired by trees. We have been learning how to use chalks to create different effects. As you can see, Charis enjoyed the blending part very much! Continue Reading

Exploring 3D Shapes

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Miss J. Davidson • 0 Comments

Today in Maths, we had our final lesson about the properties of shape! We thought about 3D representations and recapped the common 3D shapes. We also spent time discussing the shape of the different faces, the number of edges and vertices for each shape! Following this, we looked at a range of different nets and… Continue Reading

Wonderful Weaving in Year 3!

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Mrs L. Garforth • 0 Comments

We have started our own weaving!We have been using different coloured wool and putting our weaving skills into practise.We previously had a go at weaving before Christmas when making our Christmas cards. Continue Reading