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Year 4 - Rock, Paper, Scissors...Code!
Date: 14th Apr 2026 @ 2:49pm
This term, pupils in year 4 will be collecting and using data. To do this, they will be using BBC Micro:BITS - tiny computers which they can code. To get used to the Micro:BITs, pupils were challenged to code the game, Rock, Scissors, Paper and play against a friend!
🌿🎨 Year 2 Begin Their Nature-Inspired Art Journey 🎨🌿
Date: 14th Apr 2026 @ 2:48pm
🌿🎨 Year 2 Begin Their Nature-Inspired Art Journey 🎨🌿
Year 2 have started an exciting new art journey, taking inspiration from the beauty of the natural world! 🍃🌸 We began by exploring the work of textile and mixed-media artist Alice Fox, whose artwork is inspired by nature, textures, and the changing seasons.
The children created a special page in their sketchbooks all about Alice Fox 📒✨. They explored key words, added pictures, and experimented with watercolours 🎨. We looked closely at her colour palettes, the materials she uses, and discussed what inspires her work 🌾🪵. The children thoughtfully shared ideas about how nature influences art and how artists can capture natural beauty in different ways.
This artist study will be the starting point for our learning, and we will continue to use Alice Fox as inspiration throughout the rest of our art journey 🌍💡. We are so excited to see how the children develop their creativity, curiosity, and artistic skills as we move forward!
Watch this space for more wonderful artwork from Year 2! 🌟🖌️
Date: 14th Apr 2026 @ 2:29pm
This term, during sensory cooking, we are developing our cutlery skills. Today we have been exploring cutting with a knife, using a pincer or bridge grasp or a fork to hold the food in place. We all engaged with cutting soft potatoes and then mashing, rolling and squeezing it into shapes. Lots of fun and sensory exploration. Some of us enjoyed tasting it too.
Year 5 - A Community of Christians
Date: 14th Apr 2026 @ 2:14pm
This week, children in Year 5 began their new journey in R.E looking at Christianity and beginning to answer the question 'How do people decide what to believe?'. The children looked closely at what a community is, the communities they are a part of and how Christians might feel part of a community of faith. They then looked at sources of authority both at school, at home and within Christianity and the impact these people of authority have. Finally, the children were given the 'Hot Air Balloon Task' where they were asked to decide who should be saved from a balloon that had popped! They were given the figures of Jesus, a teacher, a baker and a chef. Some children decided, for example, that Jesus should be saved so that he could save the others if Christians prayed to him as a source of authority.
Date: 14th Apr 2026 @ 2:13pm
This week children in Year 5 have begun their art journey into fashion design. In this lesson, pupils were inspired by a fashion designers Alice Fox and Rahul Mishra and created their own double-page spread to demonstrate their understanding of their backgrounds, influences and designs. Alice Fox, for example, takes inspiration from the seaside, something that we could do for our final designs!
Date: 14th Apr 2026 @ 11:48am
Date: 13th Apr 2026 @ 9:16pm
Today, our Year 4 children have been busy exploring a brand‑new reading resource in school: Reading Eggs – and the response has been overwhelmingly positive!
From the moment the children logged in for the first time, there was a buzz of excitement around the classroom. The colourful design, friendly characters and interactive activities immediately captured their attention. For many pupils, it didn’t feel like “work” at all – more like a fun challenge they couldn’t wait to get started on.
Year 2- Following instructions !
Date: 13th Apr 2026 @ 4:33pm
In this lesson we looked at following a set of instructions. We followed a set of instructions to make a paper windmill. After making the windmill, we spoke about what features in the instructions helped us to make the windmill.
Date: 13th Apr 2026 @ 10:53am
Welcome back everyone. This weeks core words are same and different. We will be learning these as sight words, visuals and signing. We will look a a variety of things in our indoor and outdoor learning environment that are the same or different. Please look for things at home or in your local environments that are the same or different too.
Year 2 Elm- Making our moving vehicles!
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 3:48pm
This week, Year 2 have been busy engineers in the making as they created their very own moving vehicles in Design Technology! 🧰🎨
The children began by exploring different types of wheels and axles, learning how real vehicles move and what helps them travel smoothly. 🛞🔍 They sketched ideas, planned their designs, and thought carefully about which materials would be strongest and most effective. 💡📐
Once their plans were ready, it was time to get building! 🛠️
With cardboard boxes, dowels, bottle tops, tape, and plenty of imagination, the classroom quickly transformed into a buzzing workshop. The children worked brilliantly — measuring, cutting, attaching wheels, and testing how well their vehicles rolled. 🚗💨
There were racing cars, buses, monster trucks, and even a few creative inventionswe’ve never seen before! 🚕🚚🚜
The pride on their faces when their vehicles moved for the first time was priceless. 😄👏
A huge well done to all of Year 2 for their brilliant teamwork, resilience, and creativity throughout this project. 🌟
We are so proud of the skills they are developing as designers and makers! 🧩✨
Keep an eye out — you may see some of our future engineers on the roads one day! 🚗❤️
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 3:48pm
💛 Year 2 PSHE: Learning About Personal Safety & Trusted Adults 🌟
This week in PSHE, Year 2 took part in an important lesson all about keeping ourselves safe and understanding our personal boundaries. 🧡✨
We talked about the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touch in a simple, age‑appropriate way, helping children to understand that their body belongs to them and that everyone has the right to feel safe and comfortable. 😊💛
The children learned that:
- ✅ Some touches are kind, helpful, or part of everyday life
- ❌ Some touches make us feel uncomfortable, confused, or worried
We discussed that if something doesn’t feel right, they have the right to say “no”, move away, and tell someone they trust. 🗣️✋
Together, we also created a list of trusted adults who can help keep us safe — at home and at school. 👨👩👧👦🏫
This included parents, carers, teachers, support staff, and other grown‑ups they feel comfortable talking to. 🌟
The children showed great maturity and thoughtfulness throughout the lesson, joining in with discussions and sharing ideas about keeping themselves and others safe. 💬🤝
We are very proud of how sensibly Year 2 approached this topic. 🌈👏
They are building important life skills that will help them understand their own boundaries and know who to turn to if they ever feel unsure. 💛
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 3:43pm
We wanted to say a huge thank you to all our wonderful parents and families for the fantastic Easter egg entries this year! 🥚🎨🐰
The creativity, colour, and imagination on display were truly amazing — every single entry brought so much joy us. 🌈✨
Your support and enthusiasm make these events so special for the children, and we’re incredibly grateful. 💖
As we wrap up the term, we’d like to wish you all a very Happy Easter and a relaxing, well‑deserved break. 🌷🐇💐
We hope you enjoy some time to rest, recharge, and hopefully enjoy a bit of sunshine too! ☀️🌼
Have a lovely holiday! 🙌💛
From all of us 🐣💕
Year 2 Birch- Making our Moving Vehicles!
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 3:40pm
🚙✨ Year 2 Get Moving with Their Amazing Vehicle Designs! ✨🛠️
This week, Year 2 have been busy engineers in the making as they created their very own moving vehicles in Design Technology! 🧰🎨
The children began by exploring different types of wheels and axles, learning how real vehicles move and what helps them travel smoothly. 🛞🔍 They sketched ideas, planned their designs, and thought carefully about which materials would be strongest and most effective. 💡📐
Once their plans were ready, it was time to get building! 🛠️
With cardboard boxes, dowels, bottle tops, tape, and plenty of imagination, the classroom quickly transformed into a buzzing workshop. The children worked brilliantly — measuring, cutting, attaching wheels, and testing how well their vehicles rolled. 🚗💨
There were racing cars, buses, monster trucks, and even a few creative inventions we’ve never seen before! 🚕🚚🚜
The pride on their faces when their vehicles moved for the first time was priceless. 😄👏
A huge well done to all of Year 2 for their brilliant teamwork, resilience, and creativity throughout this project. 🌟
We are so proud of the skills they are developing as designers and makers! 🧩✨
Keep an eye out — you may see some of our future engineers on the roads one day! 🚗❤️
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 3:36pm
🌼 A Big Easter Thank You! 🐣💛
We wanted to say a huge thank you to all our wonderful parents and families for the fantastic Easter egg entries this year! 🥚🎨🐰
The creativity, colour, and imagination on display were truly amazing — every single entry brought so much joy us. 🌈✨
Your support and enthusiasm make these events so special for the children, and we’re incredibly grateful. 💖
As we wrap up the term, we’d like to wish you all a very Happy Easter and a relaxing, well‑deserved break. 🌷🐇💐
We hope you enjoy some time to rest, recharge, and hopefully enjoy a bit of sunshine too! ☀️🌼
Have a lovely holiday! 🙌💛
From all of us 🐣💕
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:53am
Acorns loved our sensory cooking experience this week. We explored making Easter biscuits. We loved creating a dough and then rolling, squishing, making patterns and cutting out shapes. We then had fun choosing different colour icing and sprinkles to decorate some we made earlier. Have a look at our fun.
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:41am
🚀🌕 Redwoods Explore the Artemis Mission! 🌕🚀
In Redwoods, we spent some exciting time today watching the Artemis rocket launch to the Moon 🚀🌕. The children were fascinated as they learned all about what it takes to be an astronaut 👩🚀👨🚀, explored what the Artemis spacecraft looks like inside 🛰️, and discovered how long the mission will last 🕒.
Everyone showed lots of curiosity and enthusiasm, asking brilliant questions and enjoying learning about space and exploration ✨⭐. It was a fantastic experience that inspired lots of interest and excitement about the Moon and beyond! 🌌🌟
Well done, Redwoods, for your brilliant learning today! 👏😊
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:36am
🐣🌸 Redwoods Easter Fun! 🌸🐣
The Redwoods class has been very busy enjoying lots of fun and creative Easter activities over the past few weeks! 🐰✨
We started our celebrations by making Easter crispy cakes 🍫🥄, and the children absolutely loved getting involved. They carefully measured the ingredients, mixed everything together, and most importantly, enjoyed tasting their delicious creations at the end! 😋 It was a great opportunity to practise independence skills and follow simple instructions.
The children also had fun making Easter cards 🐣💌 to take home. They worked hard choosing colours, patterns, and decorations, showing fantastic creativity and lots of pride in their work. Each card was unique and beautifully made 🎨✨.
Alongside this, we explored a wide range of creative Easter crafts 🖍️✂️, including painting, cutting, sticking, and collage activities. These hands‑on experiences helped develop fine motor skills while encouraging imagination and self‑expression 🌈.
It has been wonderful to see the children so engaged, smiling, and working together throughout these activities 😊👏. Well done, Redwoods, for all your hard work and creativity – you have had a brilliant Easter‑filled time! 🐰🌷🥚
Reception- End of Term Achievements
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:14am
The award for Love of Learning is presented to a child who has truly shone throughout the Spring term. Their hard work, positive attitude, and growing confidence have made them stand out in everything they do.
They have shown a remarkable love of learning, approaching new challenges with enthusiasm, curiosity, and determination. Their achievements reflect not only their effort, but also their resilience and willingness to always try their best.
The award for being an Always Child is given to someone who is consistently following our school values and promises and setting a brilliant example to others, they have become a role model for their classmates.
We are incredibly proud of all they have accomplished this term.
Congratulations on this well‑deserved achievement! 🌼🏆
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:10am
Happy Holidays from Acorns! We have had lots of fun this week incorporating Easter themed activities into our learning, from maths, arts and crafts and our favourite sensory cooking. We have been busy making Easter egg biscuits and going on an egg hunt. Enjoy your break and we will see you after the half term.
Acorns - Core words Here & There
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:07am
For the last two weeks, we have been developing our understanding of the core words, here and there. We have learned to say them, sign them or use visuals to support our understanding. We have practised reading and writing the words and our favourite has been signing them in our songs, especially Old McDonald, which has help us to learn the words in context.
Acorns - Little Red Riding hood
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 11:00am
Acorns have been enjoying the sensory story, Little Red Riding Hood. We have loved howling like a wolf, having big eyes and ears and watching the teeth chomp, chomp, chomp. We have been learning to say familiar words and phrases to finish a sentence or using visuals cards to help. We have been developing our engagement and learning during a small group activity.
Reception The Lifecyle of a Frog
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 10:31am
This week in Reception. the children have been exploring the world through an exciting hands on experiece at our school pond. We carefully colled some frogspawn to observe back in the classroom. After setting up a special observation tank, the childtren have been watching daily changes and learning new vocabulary such as frogspawwn, tadpole, froglet and lifecycle. Using books, magnifying glasses and videos, they've been discovering how frogspawn transforms from tiny eggs to tadpoles, then froglets and finally adult frogs, which we will return safely to the pond. This has encouraged curiosity, care for liviing thinfs,and scientific thinking, helping the children develop observational skills, languag, and understanding pf how living things grow and change.
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 10:12am
This week the children in Reception have been learning about the Christian celebration of Easter. We started the week off with a special assembly led by Year 6- Rev Peter also came to talk to use about Easter. We listened to the Easter story and learnt that Christians believe Easter is when JEsus died on the cross and then rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. We explored different traditions at Easter including goign to church servies, egg hunts and buying Easter eggs for our friends and family. As part of our learning we worked together to sequence the story and made our own cross on a hill to represent the crucifixion.
Reception- Easter Outdoor Learning
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 10:08am
Our Reception children enjoyed a wonderful week of Easter‑themed fun, embracing the joy of springtime through a range of playful outdoor activities. The children took part in traditional egg rolling, cheering each other on as they raced their colourful eggs down the grassy slope.
They loved dressing up in their favourite spring and Easter hats, filling the playground with bright colours, bunny ears, and big smiles!
One of the most exciting highlights was our Easter Egg Hunt. Children explored the outdoor area, searching high and low for hidden eggs while developing teamwork, curiosity, and problem‑solving skills.
These springtime celebrations created a magical atmosphere of discovery, laughter, and seasonal wonder — a perfect way to welcome the new season together. 🌷🐰
"i rolled my egg a long way- I won!" Zara
"I loved rolling my egg- it was so exciting!" Joseph
Date: 2nd Apr 2026 @ 10:06am
Over the last few weeks the children have been learning about the season of spring. We went on a spring walk to spot the different signs of spring in the school grounds. We worked in pairs to tick of our spring checklist. Back in class we took part in our oracy sessions focusing on building sentences aboiut spring using the conjunctions 'and' and 'because' We also painted spring pictures, made a spring wreath and prodiced some lovely pictures of writing..
