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Kingfishers Class Assembly

Kingfishers Class Assembly

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...

Forest Fun in the Woods

Forest Fun in the Woods

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...

Netball County Final

Netball County Final

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. [gallery...

Letter From The King

Letter From The King

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...

Investigating the Heart

Investigating the Heart

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! ...

Woodpeckers Class Assembly

Woodpeckers Class Assembly

Tuesday 27th June was the turn of the Woodpeckers to share their learning with the rest of the school and parents. The children shared their writing based around 'The Day The Crayons Quit' where they had to write letters to the chairs who had gone on strike! The...

Clean Air Day

Clean Air Day

On Thursday 15th June, the children took part in Clean Air Day. The children were encouraged to walk to school and leave the car at home. Miss Jones also told the children about Clean Air Day in assembly. The children learned about the source, affect and solution for...

Stag Beetles

Stag Beetles

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...

MySmile Oral Health Award

MySmile Oral Health Award

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...

Bikeability

Bikeability

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 Stolen Generation

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...

Science – Rachel Carson

Science – Rachel Carson

Last week, the children became Scientists. This half term the focus of their Science is a Scientist Study looking at the Essential Question - Why do scientists need to look after our seas?. The children thought about the question - What is a Marine Biologist? Who is...

Forest Fun  – Bees

Forest Fun – Bees

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...

Potatoes

The children were very excited about digging up the potatoes and seeing how many they got. The children dug through the soil with their hands collecting the potatoes. The children had to look carefully to make sure they hadn’t left any. The children listened to...

World Ocean Day

World Ocean Day

The children in Kingfishers Class celebrated World Ocean Day on Thursday 8th June. The children found the ocean in the classroom with lots of sea creatures and lots of rubbish. The children found out all about World Ocean Day and discussed how they could protect the...

Forest Fun

Forest Fun

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. They went on a bug hunt, looking under logs, in the grass and on the leaves ticking off the bug...

Genome Research Campus Visit

Genome Research Campus Visit

The Swans visited the Genome research campus in Cambridge today and learnt about DNA and sequencing. This was an amazing opportunity to visit a world famous research lab and discuss the scientific research that goes on there. Hopefully it has inspired some of them to...

Aboriginal Art

Aboriginal Art

The Swans enjoyed their ‘Immersion Day’ learning about aboriginal art. They created dot paintings to decorate the class in preparation for their new Geography topic on Australia.

Sporting Successes

Sporting Successes

Over the last half term, we have been involved in many sporting tournaments.  These have included U11 netball - where the team came second; U7 dodgeball; skiing competition and a virtual gymnastics tournament where our u11 team came first; our U9 A came first and our...

Red, White and Blue

Red, White and Blue

The children came to school dressed to red, white and blue clothes ready to celebrate King Charles III’s coronation. The children took part in activities focusing on the King’s Coronation. Miss Jones read the children the Little People Big Ideas - King Charles III...

Camp Fire and S’mores

Camp Fire and S’mores

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 told that they were going to have a fire today. They talked about the rules...

Rocket to the Moon

Rocket to the Moon

The Year One children have been exploring the topic rocket to the moon in Computing.  The children were told they were going to learn how to be rocket scientists. They were told they were going to build a rocket using junk modelling materials which they will test out...

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