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In the school library we stock a range of quality fiction and non-fiction texts. We aim for these books to show a diverse representation of society, as we recognise the importance of all children seeing themselves and their world reflected in the books they read. These include books for children…

Luckily the storms had calmed down and we could enter our Forest School area. The first challenge was to collect lots of sticks and branches that had fallen on the school field and to push the heavy wheelbarrows. In groups, they made shapes with the sticks - the circle was a challenging one. I saw…

Year 3 were made aware of something mysterious lurking behind the mound on the field today, so went to investigate! When we reached the Forest School area, we noticed a pile of logs that had been used for a fire and some kind of prehistoric den. Then, much to the children's amazement (and terror…

The sun was shining for us again and we had a very exciting week of Valentine's activities and cooking in Forest School. 

The children helped to make a fire, they prepared apples, oranges, they added apple juice, cinnamon sticks and star anise to make mulled apple juice. 

The brand new…

The sun was shining for us again and we had a very exciting week of Valentine's activities and cooking in Forest School. 

The children helped to make a fire, they prepared apples, oranges, they added apple juice, cinnamon sticks and star anise to make mulled apple juice. 

The brand new…

The girls’ football team had another away match on Tuesday and played against Wincheap Primary School. Mrs Corall and I were jumping up and down excitedly on the sidelines along with some parents and children who had kindly come to watch the game. The girls had a steady start and had a few shots…

A short time ago, 14 children from Year 6 took part in a District Dodgeball tournament. They all had a great time and cheered each other on as much as they could. Here are some quotes from the children:

"Some Year 6 children went to a Dodgeball tournament; it was so much fun and we all enjoyed…

A celebration of work from  four amazing children in 5HA. They took it upon themselves to create these pieces at home and then brought them in to share, so I thought I would share them with you.

I hope you enjoy looking at them as we did. Well done all of you.

Here are some pictures of the models that 3SA made last Friday in their DT/Geography session on mountains and rivers.

'Worms are thin,

and they've got a little grin.

We love worms so much,

We don't know where to begin!' 

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring animal poetry to link with our science learning about different animals. We began by reading and analysing the poem 'Snails' by…

This term in Geography we have been learning about the features of rivers and mountains. Today we combined this knowledge and were set the challenge to design and construct a mountain with a flowing river down it. We labelled our models with the features we have been learning about and had a lot…

Mrs Cork has created a video for parents to watch about the importance of learning their multiplication tables.

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