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Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 4:39pm
This week we have been reading the story Rosie's Walk. Although, unaware that a fox is after her, Rosie the hen takes a walk around the farmyard, leading him into one accident after another. An amusing story that helps children learn positional language.
We sequenced the story, collaged a fox, retold the story using small figures and puppets and then acted out the story in our outdoor area where we made an obstacle course to travel under, over, through and around just like Rosie did on her walk.
Take a look at our photos.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 2:26pm
Acorns will be exploring and learning about people who help us for the next few weeks. We have enjoyed listening and interacting with our sensory story.
Acorns have enjoyed being introduced to people who help us through our puppets. We have also incorporated activities into our learning. We loved putting out fires outside like firemen.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 11:25am
The children in Reception have been learning about the history of themselves. We started by reading the story 'When we were giants' and then discussed all the different stages of our life.
"First you are a baby and then you grow bigger' Lockie
"When your bigger you become an adult" Rohan.
We talked about the different theinkgs we learn at different stagea in our life and why these skills are important.
""We you go to school you learn to read" Ava
"Adults looks after children and make tea"
The children then sequenced the picutres correctly.
Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 11:13am
The children in Reception have been busy learning our letter sounds. They have been taking part in their daily phonics lessons focusing of regonising graphemes, oral segmenting and blending CVC words hearning the initial sound. We have been practising forming our letters correctly and labeling pictures with the intial sound. Have a look at our learning!
Year 3 - School Council Elections
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 2:50pm
Today, our school witnessed an inspiring democratic exercise as children voted for their class school counsellor. Each candidate confidently read out their manifesto, sharing ideas to support classmates and improve the school environment. After hearing the speeches, students headed to the hall to cast their votes in the ballot box, embracing the importance of participation and responsibility. This event not only encouraged leadership skills but also taught the value of making informed choices. It’s wonderful to see young minds actively engaged in shaping their school community!
Nursery Bake some Bear Cookies
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 2:40pm
In Nursery, we felt very sad for the bear from "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". The children thought he looked really sad at the end of the story and maybe he just wanted some friends.To cheer him up, we made him some delicious cookies to share. As we made the biscuits, the children listened carefully to instructions, took turns with their friends and watched how the ingredients changed. The bear said our biscuits melted in his mouth and went down a treat with a nice cup of tea.
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 2:27pm
We have been Reading "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen. The children are great at joining in with the rythm of the story and are starting to retell the story in the correct order. We went on our own bear hunt around school and found bears in all sorts of unusual places! We used lots of prepostion words to describe where the bears where including on, in and behind! We counted all the bears and found out that we had found 16 bears!
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 11:09am
Our fitness unit continues as we look at increasing our heart rate through gentle exercise, increasing this so we use more energy. This week we also introduced the skill of evading in small group games involving attack and defence positions. We thought tactically about how we would move in order to slow down an attacker and how sometimes this involves larger movements of our bodies all the while the attacker had to think about how they moved, introducing 'false moves' to put off the defenders and break through the defense.
Year 5 - School Council Elections
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 10:51am
School Council Elections!
Yesterday was a very exciting day- it was Election Day for the School Councillors!
Candidates started the day by presenting their manifesto to their class and then every child completed a ballot paper to vote for their chosen representative. The voting booths had been set up in the hall and children placed their ballot paper in the ballot box. After the votes had been counted, an assembly was held to reveal the results.
The children learnt about the key British Value, democracy, what it means and if it is a good thing.
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.
