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

• Year 3 & 4 Art Club

  Wed 29 Mar 2023

  The Year 3 & 4 art club have been looking at the work of Brazilian artist Romero Britto, who has a wonderfully colourful, happy and playful style.

   

  We looked at the features of his work and tried to design our own in a similar style. Well done to all the children for their hard work and creativity 👍

  

• Year 2 -Food! Glorious food!

  Fri 24 Mar 2023 FProbert

  Year 2 have spent so many lessons this week talking about food.

  In Science, they have been looking at the different food groups and sorted a range of foods into the correct groups: fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, protein, dairy and fats and oils (inc. other sweet foods).

  In PSHE, they also looked at healthy eating, and they discussed what a healthy snack should look like. They even created their own healthy snack. 

  However, it was Friday's DT lesson that made all that learning worthwhile. After weeks of looking at smoothies, tasting a variety of smoothies, designing their own smoothies, it was finally time to make their own smoothies.Twenty ingredients were at hand, and the designing chefs worked like true professionals. 

  Their instruction skills came to the fore as they used those bossy verbs to create their individual smoothies: chopping, peeling, slicing, blending and the best part: tasting. 

  What a delicious way to end the week!

  

• Year 4 - Speech marks, singing and Maria Rivans

  Fri 24 Mar 2023

  Another great week in Year 4.

   

  In Art this half term we have been learning about a great artist - Maria Rivans! We have been looking at collage and have created our own artwork inspired by the work of Maria Rivans. We think the finished products look great.

   

  We have really enjoyed reading The Firework Maker's Daughter and are very near the end. This week in our Writing lessons we have been using part of the story to work on our use of speech marks.

   

  And finally....we have been busy rehearsing! We can't wait to welcome you all in next week to watch our annual production. We know you are going to be blown away by their singing, dancing and acting! 

  

• ICT in Reception

  Thu 23 Mar 2023

  We have learned to use a paint program on Mini Mash!

  This week the wonderful animal designs were so good, we just had to show you. Our mouse control and ideas are improving every week.

  What would you paint? 

  

• Maths in Reception

  Thu 23 Mar 2023

  We have been learning how to add two numbers together in lots of different ways. It has been lots of practical work, and discussions before writing a number sentence! 

  

• Reception - Science! Forces. Rocking and rolling. Pushes and pulls.

  Thu 23 Mar 2023

  We have had fun investigating why different objects roll and how to move objects by sliding them down a slope or pushing up on a seesaw. We also loved discussing this with our partner. 

  

• Year 5 - Forces

  Thu 23 Mar 2023

  Year 5 pupils have been investigating the force of friction this week.

   

  The excellent experimenters attached force meters to wooden blocks and pulled them over different surfaces, measuring the force (in Newtons) generated by each one.

   

  The children worked fabulously well together, and they all gained an understanding of the effect friction has on movement.

  

• Year 6 - Cooking

  Wed 22 Mar 2023

  This week, year 6 have been busy following their plans to create their very own crumble. We have had a vast variety of flavours made: apple, apple and blackberry, apple and blueberry, blueberry, banana, rhubarb, blackberry, plum, peach and peach and blackberry. Some people even altered the traditional topping by adding oats or biscuit crumbs! 

  

• Seeds for the bees

  Wed 22 Mar 2023 H Mullins

  This week we had an exciting donation of seeds for all the children in Reception and KS1. One of wonderful parents Maria and her brother designed a mural to dress the well at Upwey wishing well last May and raised £245.09. They used this money to purchase the seeds and Gould garden centre donated a further 2 boxes. 

  The seeds are to be scattered to encourage bees and wildlife into our community. Some of our children helped make the mural so we are very proud of them. 

  The children will bring their seeds home this week and we can’t wait to hear how the flowers grow and how many butterflies and bees they can see.

  Happy sowing.......

  

• Year 1 - Local Walk

  Tue 21 Mar 2023 Mrs Ireland

  On Tuesday, Year 1 enjoyed a walk around the school. It was a bit muddy, but the sun was shining and everyone seemed to have a lovely time. We went past St.Ann's Church and behind the school nature reserve. We stopped at the park to have a play and the swing was definitely the most popular!

  When we got back to school, we drew the route on a map and we have written some great recounts using time connectives.