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Year 4 - Non Chronological Report - Shared Write
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 10:14am
Today, we completed a shared write about Black History Month, which is next month. We had to use our knowledge of the features of non-chronological reports to set out the information we were given correctly.
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 10:07am
Earlier this week, children who wanted to run for School Council presented their manifestos to their class. They presented with clear and confident voices. Today, was voting day! We will find out who has been elected this afternoon. Good luck to all the candidates!
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 12:53pm
Today we were visited by local magistrates who told us all about their jobs and how they play integral roles in the court system. We then took part in a mock trial, which centred around a case of online bullying. Children were given roles to play and words to read out, these included prosecution, defence, judge, victim, court usher and witnesses. The children really got a feel for what goes on in a courtroom and some of us are even considering future careers!
Year 1- School Council Elections
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 7:45am
This week, the whole School have been preparing manifesto's as to why they should represent the class as a member of the school council. As part of our Reading into Writing, we carefully thought about why we would be a good councillor and presented them to the class to encourage them to vote for us. On Thursday, we went into the hall and confidentially placed our votes for who we believed would be the best person to represent us.
Well done to our newly elected councillors!
Beech- Kevin
Hazel- Myla-Gray
Date: 24th Sep 2025 @ 7:38am
This week in Year One, we have explored different ways of representing numbers as well as using multi-link cubes to show counting on from any given number within 10. This is helping us develop a more secure knowledge of numbers within 10. We noticed that when counting on, we needed one more cube each time and the towers got one bigger.
Year 6 - The Slave Trade and Harriet Tubman
Date: 23rd Sep 2025 @ 12:31pm
As part of our work for Black History Month, we learned about the Atlantic slave trade and the life story of Harriet Tubman. Over the next couple of weeks we will be writing an autoboigraphy based on Harriet Tubman.
Date: 22nd Sep 2025 @ 8:17pm
Today we completed experiements to prove that like all substances, gases have mass. We weighed an empty balloon and then weighed it after it was inflated. Although the balloon floated more slowly, it actually had more mass! We also discovered that mixing an acid with an alkaline substance created a gas called carbon dioxide - which we used to extinguish a flame.
Date: 22nd Sep 2025 @ 4:23pm
To celebrate European Day of Languages, we held a special assembly. We learned more about the languages spoken in Europe and why it is important to have a special day to celebrate languages. We finished with the 'Boundary European Day of Languages Quiz' and learned how to say hello and goodbye in several European languages.
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 1:28pm
This week Acorns have been exploring choice making through lots of our activities.
We have been choosing different facial features while making faces in art. We have been choosing different objects to explore in sensory phonics and maths.
Reception Learning to Write our Name
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 11:36am
In Reception we are focusing on recgonsing and writing our own names. The children have busy practising holding their pencil correctly and forming the letters . They have been working with an adult aswell and independently in the classroom areas. This ia really important skill- please help support your child at home. Your child may bring home their own name card to practise with. Please encourage them to do this regularly!
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 11:34am
This week the children in Reception have been looking at the characteristic 'kindness'- Katie Kindness.
They read stories about being kind and talked about what it meant to be kind.
"You help people" Zara.
"You hug them when they cry" Dolcie-Rae.
"If someone falls over you take them to the teacher" Lockie.
"When you share toys you are being kind" Isabel.
Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 11:28am
This week we have been reading the story 'Nobot the Robot'. It is a story about Barnard the Robot who loses his bottom. All of his friends work together to help him find it. The children have enjoyed taking part in lots of different activieis themes about the story inclusing collaging their own robots, making robot patterns, using the play dough to make robots, drawing and paint robots and using 2Dshapes to make robots in the maths area.
What a busy week- have a look at our learning!
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 3:05pm
We have begun our art journey looking at printing and different ways we can create abstract aretwork using hand prints. We looked at examples produced by artists around the world, before we explored a range of colours. It was intersting to explore the different shades we could make and the different compositions we could make with our hand prints.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 11:11am
This term in Science, Year 5 have been exploring the Solar System. We have looked at:
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What is at the center of the Solar System
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What the Solar System is made up of
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Evidence that shows the Earth is round
The children have enjoyed researching, asking questions, and discovering fascinating facts about our place in space!
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:30am
In Science, we have been learning that light travels in a straight line. We completed an experiment to prove this by lining up cards with holes in.
Year 3 - Dancing With Charcoal
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:30am
In this week’s art lesson, we explored the exciting world of performance art through the work of Heather Hansen. She creates stunning pieces using charcoal in each hand, moving gracefully across large sheets of paper on the floor. Inspired by her, we had a go at creating our own movement-based artwork. Using charcoal, we danced, stretched, and moved to make expressive marks, turning our movements into art. It was a unique and creative experience—and yes, we got a little messy, but that made it even more fun! We loved combining art with movement in such a playful way.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:27am
In our first Oracy lesson, we explored the physical side of speaking and communication. We looked at how facial expressions, posture, voice projection, tonal variation, and pace of speech can change how we speak and how others understand us. It was a fun and lively session! We pulled funny faces in the mirror, practised breathing and humming exercises, and even recited Humpty Dumpty using different tones and speeds. It helped us understand that speaking clearly isn’t just about words—it’s also about how we use our bodies and voices. We can’t wait for the next session!
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:15am
In today's lesson we looked at the key question, 'How did the Maya become so successful?' We looked at a range of evidence and sources to determine what the Maya learned to do over timethat made them able to thrive and survive in their environment. We spent time looking through key vocabulary to enable us to fully understand our learning. Together we decided that the Maya were successful over time because they:
- Solved problems
- Used resources available to make tools
- They had a hierarchal system to ensure everyone played a key role in the tribe's survival
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:14am
This week we have been further developing our ability to regulate our emotions, develop our resilience when dealing with problems and challenges. We worked collaboratiovely to create towers as tall as possible.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:14am
In Year Two, we looked at the skills of Listening and Appraising and Improvising. We listened to the song Boléro and thought about what we liked and disliked and linked it to the Elements of Music. We then got a range of percussion instruments and thought about what they sounded like, what the pitch was and if we liked and disliked them. We used our oracy skills and ABC to think about the different instruments. The children then had a go at playing the different instruments and improvising along to Boléro.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:08am
Yesterday we had so much fun baking flapjacks. Before we entered the kitchen we discussed the health and safety rules, as we were using the ovens and hobs. Together we identified the procedure we would follow and how we would would in pirs and small groups.
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 7:50am
During our latest Geography lesson on mountains, the classroom turned into a mini mountain range! After learning about the key features of mountains – from peaks and ridges to valleys and slopes – some of our pupils decided to get creative. Using modelling clay, they built their very own mountains, carefully shaping and labelling the different features we’d discussed.
It was fantastic to see them using their new knowledge in such a hands-on way. The clay mountains sparked lots of discussion about real-life landscapes and helped everyone visualise how mountains form. A brilliant mix of creativity and geography in action!
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:58pm
The children are becoming very famialir with the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" and loved creating marks to represent parts of the story using differernt brush strokes. The children repeated words from the story as the made the marks "swishy swashy", "splash splosh", "squelch squerch", "stumble trip" "hoooo wooo".
Date: 17th Sep 2025 @ 4:49pm
We are reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen and have had lots of fun bear activites in our provision. The children really engaged with our bear sensory tray amd created some great bear bottles by filling them with coco pops. This was great for their fine motor development as they scooped up coco pops are carefully poured them in to the different size bottles. As the childen filled the bottles we counted how many scoops and used mathmatical langauge including full, empty, bigger and smaller.
School Council- Democracy Week
Date: 16th Sep 2025 @ 8:33pm
This week sees the launch of the School Council Elections.
It began today with a whole school assembly and a visit from Chris Webb MP where the children learnt about the British Value, democracy , why we vote and how to become a school councillor.
The children looked at what characteristics make a good school councillor and how they can encourage their class to vote for them.
Have you got what it takes to be part of the school council? If so, your school needs YOU!
Voting day is Thursday 25th September.
