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📚 English

In English, we have been preparing for our new narrative writing unit. We explored a series of exciting images, including a mysterious cavern 🏔️, a treacherous pathway 🪨, and a fierce dragon 🐉. The children worked brilliantly to create a descriptive word bank filled with ambitious…

It was lovely to see Year One children happily returning to school this week. We can't quite believe that this is the final half term of Year One! What a busy, brilliant year it has been so far. Lots of learning and lots of fun along the way!

This week the children were very excited to plant a…

This week as part of our topic work, we have begun our focus on heroes and adventures and looked at Valentina Tereshkova and adventures into space.

We have been reusing plastic bottles to make rockets.  We decorated the bottle and planned carefully how we would like to decorate our rockets and…

This week we started our new topic - Stories from the past.

Our first focus is on traditional tales and fairy tales. This week we acted out the story of 'the three little pigs'. We used masks and puppets in the puppet theatre to retell the story. We encouraged the children to use story language…

This week as part of our topic work, we have continued our focus on wild animals and in- particular elephants and turtles.  We used descriptive words to describe the elephants and found out some interesting facts in our non-fiction animal books.

Our story of the week has been, ‘Elmer and the…

Year 4 have finished the half term with a

wonderful piece of creative writing linked to our whole‑class text, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.

For their assessment, the children wrote an extra

chapter to fit seamlessly into the story. Their chapter focused on Abilene preparing to…

What a fantastic week we have had in class! 😊

📚 English,

We worked hard to complete our writing about Western Europe. We explored the temperate climate and learned how it helps plants and vegetables grow. We also looked at importing and exporting goods, and discussed how important trading is…

What a brilliant time Year one children had on the Water Run on Thursday!

They smiled and laughed throughout as they ran alongside their friends through the dry part of the course on the field, and then the wet part of the course on the playground. The children were guided and encouraged around…

The Sandringham Trip
We had a fantastic time on our trip to Sandringham this week. Firstly, after a quick stop for snack, the children had a tour around the gardens. We learned that the King loves nature and trees. He has a favourite tree in the gardens, that is over 800 years old. We then had a…

This week has been full of emotion, challenge, curiosity and a lot of enthusiasm from the children.

📚 Boy in the Tower

We continued reading Boy in the Tower, discovering that even more towers are collapsing, Ade’s mum is becoming increasingly unwell, and Ade himself is feeling more isolated…

We have been super busy with many areas of learning this week!

🕒 Maths
In Maths, we have been working on time and using clocks to make different times using “past” and “to”. We have become much more confident at reading and showing times correctly!

✍️ English
In English, we completed our…

This week the children continued to read on in their exciting class reader 'The Jungle Book' and they started to write sentences about the characters. In addition to ensuring that their sentences contained a subject (the 'who') and a predicate (the 'what') the children are now beginning to learn…