Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Year 4 - a wonderful week!

  Tue 14 Oct 2025

  This week the children  had a visit to the Life Space - Scarf Room where they re-met Harold the giraffe and explored the topic of- It's Great To Be Me! Using the electronic t-shirt, they were able to see inside of one of the children, looking at the different systems we each have in our bodies. 

  Wednesday was a particularly wonderful day - for the children made their own torches from their designs, went to the nature reserve and then had a tuneful music lesson!

  

• Year 3 - samba & sculpture!

  Fri 10 Oct 2025

  Year 3 have had another busy week! We welcomed some visiting samba drumming teachers who led us through some fun activities with drums, shakers and body percussion. 

   

  To finish our art unit on Barbara Hepworth, we sketched our own designs and then created them in clay. Wow, they look amazing!

   

  Well done to all the children for their hard work this week :-) 

  

• 🌿🎶 Jungle Beats and Minibeast Adventures in Year 2! 🐛🎨

  Thu 09 Oct 2025 Mrs Mutch

  What a fantastic week we've had in Year 2!

   

  We were excited to welcome visiting musicians who brought the rainforest to life through sound. Using a variety of percussion instruments, we learned how to follow rhythms and worked together to create an incredible piece of music. The samba drums were a big hit — we loved using them to create music of a rainforest. We loved creating a thunderstorm at the end!

  In art, we’ve been busy finishing our beautiful jungle watercolours. The children have worked so carefully to blend colours and add detail to their rainforest scenes — they’re looking amazing and we can’t wait to display them!

  Meanwhile, in science, we’ve been exploring the school grounds to investigate different microhabitats. We looked under logs, in trees, along stony paths, and beneath bushes. There was so much to discover! We were especially fascinated by the spiders and loved watching the butterflies.

  It’s been a week full of creativity, curiosity, and collaboration — well done, Year 2!

   

   

   

   

   

  

• Hey You! - Year 1 Music

  Tue 07 Oct 2025 Mrs I

  This week, year 1 enjoyed listening to and appraising the hip hop song: Rapper’s Delight by Sugarhill Gang. 

  Finding the pulse was not a problem but it was a little trickier following the rapid paced rapped lyrics.

  After some fun ‘find the pulse’ game involving some interesting dance moves, the children played the glockenspiels and the recorder to their class focus song: Hey You.  There were some interesting sounds coming from the music room.

   

  

• Year 4 - Hands on!

  Tue 07 Oct 2025

  This week the children have started their tennis lessons in outdoor PE revising how to hold the racquet correctly, and practising their forearm and backhand techniques. 

  The children used a range of manipulatives to help them to understand their 8 x tables. 

  The nature reserve was a very artistic session where we used the fallen leaves to create some unusual creatures. 

  We also enjoyed a session learning about music and experiencing the joys of playing the samba drums!. 

  

• Year 3- Bank of Dreams and Nightmares

  Fri 03 Oct 2025

  This week in year 3, we were visited by ‘The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares’.  Ed and his helpers worked with us to develop character descriptions of a bank robber. We each wrote our own in our special journals and are looking forward to seeing how they are turned into a set of ‘character cards’. In English, we used our new-found skills to write descriptions of prehistoric animals. Finally, during our time in the nature reserve, we attempted to create found-item collages of our chosen prehistoric creatures.

  

• Year 3 - Bank of Dreams & Nightmares visit

  Fri 03 Oct 2025

  Year 3 had a fantastic visit from the Bank of Dreams & Nightmares this week - with their props, swag bag and magic red telephone we were inspired to discuss and create our own character descriptions which was great fun.

   

  In the nature reserve, we created pre-historic creatures using natural materials, and in English we wrote used expanded noun phrases and varied nouns for effect to create super animal descriptions.

   

  Well done to the children for their hard work :-) 

  

• Year 4 - History at its best!

  Thu 02 Oct 2025

   

  What a brilliant day Year 4 children had on Monday with the visitor historian. From the moment he arrived, the children knew it was going to be an exciting day!

  The costumes of the children were just amazing! The children played the Anglo-Saxon game of Fox and Geese. They made bookmarks using runes and writing with a quill!

  The children learned about the different punishments for certain crimes and some children played different criminal characters! They were able to hold a wide range of artefacts from that era – trying on chainmail and different helmets.

  In the afternoon, the children learned more about the chronology of the kings during the Anglo-Saxon times. The best part of the day, for many, was the battle at the end. The children had to form a barricade of shields to ward off the spears that were hurled towards them. 

  Happy to share that all the warriors returned safely!

  Congratulations to the children who worked hard with their Summer Reading! We are super proud of you!