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

• Year 4 - New Year- New Beginnings

  Fri 05 Jan 2024

  It is so good to see all the children return well rested and enthusiastic for our new topics.

  It has been a very busy 4-day week. 

  In Music, the children have started a new topic where they are learning to play the Mardi Gras on the glockenspiels.

  Outdoor PE this week, has brought the exciting topic of tag rugby and luckily, it brought the sunshine!

  In French, Madame Smith read Goldilocks and the Three Bears in French, and the children were introduced to names for family-member names. Why not test them to see what they can remember? 

  The children are really looking to next week, where they will be using their instructional writing skills to write and follow a recipe for making pasta sauce. Look out for those photos next week. 

  We wish you all a very Happy New Year!

   

  

• Year 5 - Healthy, Balanced Diet

  Thu 04 Jan 2024

  This half term, children in Year 5 will be learning about what constitutes a healthy, balanced diet, culminating in making their own healthy pizzas.

   

  Year 5 began this Design & Technology topic by looking at the NHS EatWell Guide, which gives advice on the proportion of each food group to eat in order to maintain good health. The children used this information to design their own healthy, balanced meals.

  

• Funny Bones in Reception

  Thu 04 Jan 2024 H Mullins

  The first week back has been very busy learning all about our bones and our skeletons. We can name the skull, the ribs, hips, leg and other bones in the body.

  We made skeletons, painted skeletons and looked at X-rays of our bones. We role played The Doctors Surgery and found out about our bodies. All this information will help us to know more about the discovery of dinosaurs.....but you will have to wait until next week for that! 

  

• Year One - Design Technology

  Fri 15 Dec 2023 Mrs Ireland

  The children have had fun this week learning the skills of joining paper and card together.  They have learnt how to join a tube to a flat piece of paper and have used pipe cleaners to make hinges. All the children used lots of glue and sellotape to make a new chair for 'Baby Bear'.

  It’s been a sticky few days!!

  

• Year 3- Christmas visit to St Aldhelm's Church

  Fri 15 Dec 2023

  This week we planned and wrote Christmas poems, enjoyed a party day and even went on an afternoon trip to visit St Aldhelm's church. At the church, we took part in some activities to help us understand the Christmas story. 

  

• Year 5 - Christmas Party Day

  Thu 14 Dec 2023

  Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed celebrating the build up to Christmas! We've enjoyed watching Christmas productions, singing Christmas songs and having our wonderful Christmas dinner! What an exciting time of year. Well done to all the children in Year 5 for their hard work during the Autumn term. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and we can't wait to see you in 2024! 

  

• Year 6 - Christmas Party Afternoon

  Thu 14 Dec 2023

  You can't beat good old traditional party games! Following our delicious Christmas dinner on Wednesday, Year 6 had an afternoon of games. They either played the reindeer game, or they played a whole host of traditional games: the chocolate game, musical statues, musical bumps, pass the parcel, musical chairs and sleeping lions. Merry Christmas to all! 

  

• Year 4 - Winter Fayre

  Mon 11 Dec 2023

  The children worked so hard this week to create some amazing pieces of art for the Winter Fayre.

   

  

• Year One - Year One Christmas Show

  Tue 05 Dec 2023 Mrs Ireland

  The children have been practising the Christmas show for several weeks now.  They have been learning words, singing songs as well as memorising actions and stage directions. 

  They have all done so well, and its amazing to see how they have flourished this term.

  

• Year 4 - Visitors

  Fri 01 Dec 2023

  What a wonderful week it has been in Year 4. We have been very busy with many interesting visitors and an unexpected delivery. 

   

  On Monday, the children, along with the staff, were surprised to see a huge parcel next to the bike shed. No-one knew where it had come from, who it was for, nor what was actually inside the parcel. The parcel was an excellent stimulus for our Everybody Writes Day. The children were encouraged to ask questions, speculate and use their imaginations to write about what they thought was in the parcel. The children wrote some amazing pieces of creative writing!

  On Tuesday, the Year 4 children welcomed some visitors from the  Mental Health Schools Team (MHST). They came in to talk about how we can deal with our worries and shared some strategies on how to cope when things get a bit tricky and when we don't know how to deal with those feelings. 

  We continued to welcome visitors into Year 4. On Friday, the visitors were our very our class parents.  They came in to watch a typical maths lesson, and we hope they also learned some new maths tricks about multiplications. A huge thank you to all of the parents who came. Below are some links to the websites we use to help develop our multiplication knowledge. We use these alongside out usual Times Table Rock Stars  and SumDog

   

  www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily 10

  www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button