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Reception enjoy Christmas dinner
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 9:55pm
Today the children in Reception enjoyed having Christmas dinner with their friends. Thei chi;drem were invited to get into the Christmas spirit by wearing a Christmas jumper. Evertone looked fabulous! They enjoyed a lovely turkey dinner with all the trimmings whilst they sang along to Christmas songs and pulled crackers with their friends.
Year 4 - Christmas jumpers and Christmas dinner
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 10:54am
We loved getting festive today wearing our Christmas jumpers!
At lunchtime, we enjoyed a yummy Christmas dinner and enjoyed the Christmas tunes!
Year 2- Birch- Christmas Dinner & Christmas Jumper Day!
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 8:22am
Year 2- Elm- Christmas Dinner & Christmas Jumper Day!
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 8:21am
Year 5 - PSHE - Personal Hygiene
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 2:04pm
In our Year 5 practical lesson on personal hygiene, we explored the many ways we can keep ourselves clean and healthy. We began by creating a colourful spider diagram to organise ideas such as handwashing, brushing our teeth, showering regularly, and wearing clean clothes. Then, in small groups, we acted out different hygiene habits without speaking, while the rest of the class tried to guess what we were demonstrating. It was a fun, active way to understand why looking after ourselves is important for our own wellbeing and for the people around us.
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 11:41am
Yes - we've had cheeky elves in Year 4 too!
Have a look at some of the mischief they've already caused...
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:57am
Christmas has hit our Bucket Time. Acorns have been developing the focus and attention during our sessions and we loved our new Christmas additions to the bucket. We all showed an interest in the activity and was excited to see what came next. We were thrilled at the end for it to start snowing.
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:48am
We have been reading the story The Gingerbreadman.
It is one of our favourite stories and everyone loves joining in saying "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbreadman!".
Everyone collaged and painted a Gingerbreadman, wrote a list of the characters from the story and retold the story at the story telling table.
"Everyone chased the Gingerbreadman" Raya
"They couldn't catch him" Ibrahim
"He was a very fast Gingerbreadman" Harrison- Bleu
"The fox was sneaky- he tricked him and ate him all up!" Bonnie
Reception- Christmas Role Play
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:37am
It has been a very exciting week in Reception- Christmas has arrived!
All the children have been enjoying dressing up in the home corner as Elves and reindeers. They sang songs, made "hot chocolate" and "Christmas dinner" and wrote Christmas lists to Santa. They also helped each other put their costumes on too.
Reception learn about the Christmas Story
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:32am
This week we have been learning about why Christians celebrate Christmas. We have been nusing our oracy sessions to explore a range on new vacabularly and have been building sentences using widgets to explain dwhat happened in different parts of the story. The children have then been using our storytellingtable to retell the story in their own words.
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:27am
Tree dressing is celebrated in different cultures all over the world. It’s a tradition that brings people closer to trees and highlights the important role they play in our lives. It’s also a great way of showing gratitude for all the benefits trees provide.
We loved dressing one of the trees in our outdoor area. It's so lovely to look outside and look at..
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Reception get busy in Santa's Workshop
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:26am
This week the children have hand a great time role playing in Santa's Workshop. They have been practising their scissor skills by cutting wrapping paper and working their finger muscles to wrapp a range of different presents. They have been creating their own role plays by using their imagination and developing thewir sharing and turn taking skills whislt playing together. The children have been busy designing teir own toys and writing Chirstmas lists. What a fabulous time they have had!
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 7:30am
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 2:53pm
After reading the story "There's an Alien in your Book" the childlren followed instructions to create their own Aliens. They had to select the right amount of buttons, beads, eyes and pipe cleaners and then chose how to arrange then to create their alien.
Nursery Help Chompy to Clean his Teeth
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 2:39pm
A big part of the Physical Development strand of the EYFS curriculum focuses on self care. This week, we were really lucky to have Better Start come in to school to deliver a Ready, Steady, Smile session. We were joined by some of our parents as we met Chompy the Dinosaur! Chompy taught us all about the importance of keeping our teeth clean by brushing them for two minutes twice a day and not eating too many sugary foods. The children then practised bruhsing teeth, created a healthy picnic that the Tooth Fairy would be proud of and went to the shop to buy healthy snacks.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 12:18pm
In Science, Year 5 have been learning about dissolving, filtering and the difference between a solution and a mixture. As part of their experiments, they investigated what happens when soil, sand, and salt are added to water. They observed that salt dissolves in water to form a solution, while soil and sand do not dissolve. The class then practiced filtering, using a filter to separate the sand from the water, demonstrating how mixtures can be separated using physical methods. Through these activities, the students are gaining a better understanding of solutions, mixtures, and practical scientific techniques.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 12:16pm
In music lessons, Year 5 have been learning about The Magic Flute, a famous opera composed by Mozart. They have been exploring the story and characters, and have been singing songs about Papageno, the cheerful bird-catcher, including the well-known tune “Papageno, Papagena.” Through this, the students are not only practicing their singing skills but also learning about opera, musical storytelling, and characterisation.
Gerry and George the Cheeky Ginger Elves!
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:35am
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This week, we conducted an investigation into magnetic strength. We wanted to find out if the size of the magnet affected its strength. We measured the distance that a magnet could attract a metal ball, metal ring and paperclip from. From the magnets we used, we concluded that the largest magnet had the strongest magnetic pull. We also found out that a magnetic force can act from a distance so it doesn’t need to be touching a magnetic object to attract it.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:22am
🎄 The Christmas Kindness Challenge: Small Acts, Big Joy
This week, our Christmas Kindness Challenge has encouraged pupils to spread festive cheer through simple, thoughtful actions.
Day 1: Make a card for your teacher
Students created colourful, heartfelt cards to show their appreciation. A lovely start to the week!
Day 2: Hold the door open
A small act with a big impact—our corridors were full of smiles and good manners.
Day 3: Say something nice to a friend
Kind words filled the classrooms as pupils shared compliments and encouragement.
Day 4: Tidy the classroom
Everyone pitched in to make our learning spaces clean, organised, and welcoming.
A little kindness goes a long way—especially at Christmas! Let’s keep the festive goodwill flowing. 🎅✨
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:18am
In maths we learnt about lines of symmetry, focusing on vertical lines of symmetry. We began by looking at a variety of 2D shapes and discussing what symmetry means and that a shape is symmetrical if it can be folded into two matching halves. We then carried out a practical activity where they cut out different shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles. They experimented with folding the shapes to see if they could find a vertical line of symmetry. After folding, the children used pencils and rulers to draw the vertical lines of symmetry clearly on each shape.
Year 2- Does using a tissue when sneezing stop the spread of germs?
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:17am
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:11am
In this maths lesson we were looking at drawing 2-D shapes. Firstly we recapped our learning on vertices and sides and thought about regular and irregular shapes. The children then used the Geoboards to firstly make different shapes and then used dotted paper to draw the shapes.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:07am
In today’s Reading into Writing we looked at what a simile was. We started the lesson off by making similes using cards to build our sentences. The children thought carefully about the different qualities and what might it link to.
