Early Years News

This week in nursery, we received an exciting letter from Farmer Tom, who told us he was finding life on the farm a bit too tricky. He asked for our help in thinking of new jobs he could try! The children put their creative thinking to work, drawing, writing, and posting their wonderful suggestions in our post box. In maths, we've been exploring the concepts of long and short, using caterpillars as our inspiration! The children had so much fun creating their own caterpillars with printing and playdough, then using cubes to measure them and compare which was the longest and which was the shortest.

With the beautiful weather this week, we made the most of our time outdoors, focusing on developing our gross motor skills through lots of active play. It’s been a fantastic week of learning, creativity, and movement! This week the children have been developing their creativity in story writing skills.We have been working really hard in retaining our sentences and reading back our sentences. In maths, they explored maps, planned routes, and practised directional language. Additionally, the children enjoyed junk modeling, using recycled materials to build houses and describe their creations using prepositions such as "under," "above," and "next to." These activities have encouraged critical thinking, spatial awareness, and enriched their language skills. 

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Wow! What super mathematicians Year 1 are! On Wednesday, World Maths Day, they worked really hard to solve different space themed maths challenges and managed to crack the code and open the prize box. Well done Year 1! Next week, we are looking forward to ending our term with a Purim celebration and a DT project all about wheels and axles. Have a wonderful weekend!

We want to start off by saying a HUGE well done, to all the children in Year 2 for completing their assessments. We are 3/4 of the way through! We also had a great time on Wednesday for World Maths Day, where the children completed many different challenges to open up their locked boxes! They did so well with the group challenges they had to complete in the hall, impressing not only us but the adults leading the session too:)

Not long now, 1 week to go (not that we're counting!)

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Year 3 have been busy planning their hot writes this week.  They will be writing a letter about why recycling is important at school. We have all been demonstrating resilience whilst completing our quizzes and the children should be very proud of the way they have persevered.  Well done Year 3.

This week Year 4 have had themselves a selection of fantastic experiences. Firstly, starting the week with a wonderful performance of Young Voices songs, much the delight of the pupils and parents alike. Next, Wednesday brought our Maths day and our exciting opportunities to take part in external workshops and an exciting crack the code challenge! Finally, the week has been rounded off with our final swimming session of the year allowing the pupils to showcase what they have learnt in a fun swim session.

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Red Nose Day 2025

Thanks to your generous donations the school managed to raise a  substantial £233 for Comic Relief.

Early finish on 

Friday 4th April

Life in Year 5 has returned to normal somewhat, after an exhausting 2 week schedule of rehearsals, performances and Bikeability. We have been very impressed by the maturity and high focus levels of children in both classes during this week's assessments and we look forward to using the outcomes to determine how to best support areas of need and build upon areas of strength in the months to come. In Geography, the children recapped all learning from this term by updating their knowledge organisers and previewed an exciting visit to the Food and Farming event which we will be attending in the summer term (details to follow soon). World Maths Day was greatly enjoyed by all, as the children worked collaboratively in their workshops and in class to unlock the secrets of our mystery box. Science also brought about a termly recap whilst in Computing, we practised the skills for creating stop-start animations. Due to the magnificent efforts of the children in Year 5 this week, there will be no additional home learning beyond the nightly reading, which remains the expectation, please.

Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Maths Day on Wednesday by completing some 'Escape Room' style questions. These questions enabled us to explore a range of problem solving skills using our mathematical critical thinking to help us work out a code to unlock our class padlock! As well as this, we have continued to explore the topic of area and perimeter and have learnt how to find the area of parallelograms. In our English learning, we have chosen some debate questions to write our own 'for and against' pieces including our key devices from our writers toolkit such as causal conjunctions, fronted adverbials and facts and statistics. As part of our Frozen Kingdom project, we have worked in groups to find out about the different indigenous people of the Arctic and presented our findings to the class. 

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