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Connor is our reader of the week this week. You have tried so hard this week with your reading and it has been lovely to hear that you are developing a love of reading and books again. Well done Connor! We are so proud of you.  

Year 6 have been working really hard to make progress on reading plus, reading carefully, using the re-read button to check their answers when carrying out comprehensions, learning new vocabulary in the vocabulary section and have recently started producing short pieces of writing linked to texts they have read. Our word count is unstoppable and the combos keep rising. Well …

Article 13 is about our right to share our thoughts and feelings. It is our right to an opinion as long as it does not hurt others. It is really important that we share our thoughts and feelings and are supported by our friends and family.   A reminder of what Article 13 means: Time to think: Rights Respecting Tasks …

This term in DT we are looking at structures at the park. We will be designing and making a mini structure. Today we enjoyed using a range of construction materials to make slides, sea-saws, swings, zip wires and roundabouts. `We enjoyed working together and sharing our ideas. Next week we will be looking at different ways to join different materials.

This term Year 3 are investigating whether the UK is the same everywhere. In today’s lesson we set up a map from memory exercise to help us observe physical features of the UK. Each group had to send one person at a time to look at the large map of the UK to find out where the key physical features …

As well as learning to play the violin, we are also learning to rap and sing using sign language. Take a look at our Happy Llama, Sad Llama.  

Last Thursday was National Poetry Day and we celebrated by listening to, reading, writing and sharing some of our favourites!   

Enjoying a bit of role play to help us prepare for our writing. Do you know the Old Testament story about Ruth? We do now!

Reception Class had lots of fun in their ICT lesson this week. Mr Graham took a group outside and set the children some challenges to carry out with their digital cameras. Who could take a photograph of something made of plastic, wood etc. Inside the children worked with the Bee Bots. They had to make them move forwards, backwards and …

We have been reading Pirates Love Underpants in english and written some fabulous letters in a bottle. We have also been doing some tricky work on our doubles in maths too. Well done Year 1 on another fantastic week, keep it up!

Our first readers of the week in Year 2! Well done girls. We are very proud of you.  

After reading the story ‘The Colour Monster,’ Year 2 enjoyed making a feelings wheel. We have all been really keen to use our wheels each morning and afternoon to say how we are feeling. Sometimes we feel happy, sometimes we feel sad and sometimes we just feel all mixed up like the Colour Monster does. Mrs Wilkinson is teaching us …

We are now into week 4 and Monday violin lessons are going really well. Children are so keen to learn how to play, they even want to do solo parts. Mrs Sellers is so impressed with how they are progressing. Keep it up Year 3. For our art lesson today, we went outside to do some sketches using charcoal. We …

Reception Class enjoyed their run today. They showed us how fit they were by running around the yard and field lots of times. Reception Class should sleep well tonight! Well done.      

This week our Reception Class have been in school everyday full time. They have been introduced to a different letter sound each day. The activities for that day have been linked to the sound of the day. On “m” day we had a marshmallow challenge where the children had to use a catapult to fire marshmallows onto a spot they …