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BOOM! What a fantastic day we have all had. Today the children have been transformed into: planets, rockets, moon buggies, stars, the sun and so much more. Through interacting with each other and active learning they should be able to tell you about the solar system, challenges facing space…

Year 5 have been learning a dance linked to our focus text The Lost Thing. The children have worked really hard developing their sequencing of movements and have completed a final performance to share with you all!

Inspired by the artist - Atta Kwami.

Year three’s term 1 art project celebrates the Folkestone Art Triennial and is inspired by the work of Ghanaian-born artist Atta Kwami who sadly died last month, age 65. He worked in both Ghana and the UK as a painter, printmaker, and art historian.

The…

Year 3 have been learning about Light and Shadows in Science this term. They created their shadow puppet theatres and puppets. They investigated how a shadow changes when the distance of the light source is changed. They planned their investigation, made predictions and used measuring skills to…

Year one pupils have been making their own autumnal leaves from their mark-making work produced earlier in the term. During their country walk, Year 1 pupils collected large autumnal leaves. I photocopied some to become leaf stencils - a choice of leaves appropriate for each child’s cutting…

On Tuesday 12th October, Y6 took part in a Tag Rugby competition at the Canterbury Rugby Club. This is a popular competition and was attended by 17 teams from the Canterbury District so our children certainly had a very active day! Our 3 teams played extremely well and improved each time they…

Over the last three weeks, Year R have been experimenting with mark-making. They have been dipping objects and tools into poster paint and moving them around their A3 page to make a variety of marks on their paper. They have also been mixing primary colours in their paint trays to make secondary…

At the end of Term 6, our school was awarded the Green Flag. Our current Year 6 children worked extremely hard last year to encourage everyone to look after our world and our school. The children carried out weekly litter picks, emptied and checked recycling bins to ensure we were recycling the…

Thank you for another lovely book club this week. We really enjoyed hearing about you favourite books and authors. Next week bring a scary book, witches and wizards is the theme,

Well, another amazing day on the farm! After a great nights sleep we began the day with a stroll to the meadow to observe the humane mammal catchers to see if we had been lucky and we had been ! The children looked at a field mouse, a short tailed vole and a shrew. We then had a tour of the farm…

Year 6 have been practising their observational drawing skills and working from cultural objects from around the world. The objects included masks from Africa and Indonesia as well as puppets from South-East Asian countries. Within our gallery below you will see Year 6 pupils' large (A2)…

Year 5 have enjoyed their first day at Bore Place. We have completed orienteering where we explored the grounds, made our own pizzas where we picked our own vegetables and salad from the garden, had a camp fire and set humane mammal traps for the night which we will look at in the morning. All…