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Following on from the glory and delight that was last year's Christmas Video, we've created yet another masterpiece to bring the Christmas joy!

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and we'll see you in January!

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This term, Year 5 have been learning to write poetry, in particular riddles. The children learnt what the features of riddles are and then planned and created their own. Some children chose concrete nouns, whereas others chose abstract nouns. The children took great pleasure in…

Over the past five weekends, Aum, Tom and Eddie have represented the school at the University of Kent and taken part in a Mathematics Masterclass. Over the weeks they have solved problems, looked at patterns, broke codes and investigated shape. Well done a fantastic achievement!

Year 3 were very excited to receive their Christmas present from the Year 3 team- an orangutan adopted through the World Wildlife Fund. They spent the afternoon making posters to place around the school to spread the message about palm oil and the destruction of the orangutan’s natural…

On Thursday 5th December, children from Years 2, 4 & 5 competed in the Speed Stacking event held at Canterbury Primary School. Everyone had a great time and gained 2nd and 3rd place.

On Tuesday 10th December, on a very wet and windy afternoon,  the girls' football team played their first league match against Wincheap Primary School and won 3-0! The girls all played brilliantly, in very difficult conditions, resulting in 2 goals scored by Phoebe (Y5) and 1 scored by Holly (Y5).…

Throughout Term 2, Year 6 explored different ways of exploring different ways of depicting the moving body in their artwork. We looked at and analysed the work of several artists, including those involved in the Futurist art movement. 
 

Pupils considered the proportions of the human figure…

This week, Year 6 have completed many studies and investigated different aspects of light. Today we solved the problem of where we would need to place umbrellas to get the most amount of shade during the day, we have demonstrated how we see things in the mirror and we have explored which materials…

Year 6 have been busy creating functioning water mills this week for their Design Technology. We were able to use kinetic energy from the water to cause a paddle wheel to rotate. We planned and made our products and then spent some time explaining how they work to our reading partners.

The new school council for Years 3-6 met in November. This year, for the first time,  two members of Bridge Bees (our before and after-school club) have joined the school council which aims to be the voice of the children across the school.

Below are the notes from the first meeting. We will be…

Early this morning thirty excited children - who regularly use the Walking Bus - were treated to hot chocolate and pastries courtesy of our bus sponsors, Charles Bainbridge. Following that, they all received a lucky dip present as a thank you for using the Walking Bus. These children turn up every…

This week Year 5 have been writing explanation texts about bubble-net feeding. All the children have worked extremely hard: identifying the features of an explanation text; designing the layout; draft-writing their own information and then producing some amazing explanation texts which are…