Classes

Annie the Musical

by | 7 Jul 2023 | Music, Owls, Parents, School Events, Swans

On Wednesday 19th July, the Owls and Swans performed the musical ‘Annie’ to family, friends and staff and children in the school. The children acted and sung beautifully and confidently and wowed the audiences with their various talents, including those who helped with props and music. Of course, this performance would not have happened without […]

Computing Programming Bee Bots

by | 7 Jul 2023 | Computing, Kingfishers

This week the children have been exploring the unit Programming Bee Bots in Computing. The children were given three challenges – build a bridge out of bricks for Bee Bot to drive through, make the Bee Bot turn all the way round in a circle without moving off the starting spot and to get Bee […]

Kingfishers Class Assembly

by | 7 Jul 2023 | Kingfishers, Parents

The Kingfishers performed their last assembly of the school year. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children told the audience about what they enjoy learning at school, read Kingfisher’s Class ABC poem and sang ‘Oh I do like to be beside the seaside’ A great assembly Kingfishers.  

Forest Fun in the Woods

by | 7 Jul 2023 | Kingfishers, Visits

The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark, Mrs Martin and Miss Cousins. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. They accessed some areas of the wildlife area and then headed over to the local woods to play some Forest Fun games. They children […]

Netball County Final

by | 7 Jul 2023 | Extracurricular, Owls, PE, Swans

On Wednesday 21st June, a group of children represented our school in the netball county final. They played really well demonstrating good team spirit and skill. Thank you to Mrs Wyncoll and Mrs Allum for coaching and accompanying them to the tournaments.

Letter From The King

by | 6 Jun 2023 | Kingfishers, News

Kingfishers Class were very excited as they had received a very important letter. Mrs Clark opened the envelope and read the letter from Thomas Claridge (Head of Royal Correspondence) who was writing on behalf of the King. The letter was thanking the children for sending congratulations cards for the King’s Coronation.

Investigating the Heart

by | 6 Jun 2023 | Science, Swans

In Science we dissected a heart. The children had been learning about the heart in previous lessons so this really helped embed the learning. Some of them were really brave and used scalpels to cut into the chambers!  

Stag Beetles

by | 6 Jun 2023 | Environment, Kingfishers

The children enjoyed another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children got changed into their outside clothes and headed out to the Forest Fun area. The children were joined by the September 2023 Reception children and they accessed all areas of the wildlife area. Today the have been learning about stag […]

MySmile Oral Health Award

by | 6 Jun 2023 | Kingfishers, News

In January, we were given the opportunity to work towards the My Smile Quality Mark. We felt this was an exciting opportunity as oral health is now part of the EYFS framework. My Smile is a quality mark awarded to settings which fully implement the four My Smile steps to provide a tooth friendly environment […]

Bikeability

by | 6 Jun 2023 | Extracurricular, Owls, Swans, Visitors

The children in Years 5 & 6 had the opportunity to take part in some Bikeability sessions. These sessions, which were delivered by John and Penny, taught the children some skills so they know how to keep themselves safe whilst out on their bikes on the road. All the children did extremely well.  Thanks John & […]

The Stolen Generation

by | 6 Jun 2023 | English, Geography, Swans

The Swans have been learning about ‘The Stolen Generation’. They wrote an explanation text about this; and one child was asked to read her work to the class. The standard of their writing has been exceptional. The children have learnt about the effects of colonisation on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were […]

Science Club

by | 6 Jun 2023 | Extracurricular, Owls, Science, Swans

In the recent after school science club, the children experimented with different material to see which was the most effective to make ‘skittles’. Great fun was had by all.