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On Tuesday afternoon, the Small Schools Football Tournament took place at our school with Treales and Weeton Schools attending. Eight children from Y5/6 were chosen to participate in the competition (Nathaniel, Joseph, Maddi, Alex W, William, Tom, Reuben and Ben) and they made us all very proud. 
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When our Small Schools Football Tournament was announced to Year 5/6 several weeks ago, some of the girls immediately came to ask if they could be the football cheer leaders. They used their break times from then on to choreograph and rehearse their cheer leaders’ dance which they performed…

Our overall topic this half term is focusing on biomes and climates. In our art lessons, we have been looking at using mixed mediums to represent themes, so we decided to use two of our biomes to do this.

Children were inspired by the colours, shapes and textures of either the Tundra/Ice biome…

This week we had a fantastic afternoon hosting the small schools football tournament for its second year. Our middle school team did incredibly well and had lots of fun on such a sunny afternoon. The rest of the class came out to support them with claps, cheers and some fab banners.

Well done,…

In our geography learning we are looking at the weather and how it changes in the UK. We have started by revisiting learning about continents and where in the world the UK is. 
 

The children started by looking through atlases and talking about what they saw, they practised using an index to…

We have been reading the story ‘The Odd Egg’ by Emily Gravett over the past week or so and doing lots of different writing activities linked to the story. 

The children wrote letters to Duck the main character a few days ago and put them into our magic portal in the hope that magic would carry…

After a big discussion about our topics for learning this term their children chose their role play area. It doesn’t actually link to any of our learning topics (ha, ha) but it is what the children decided they wanted and that is the most important thing! Their first request was a shoe shop which…

This afternoon the class looked at and discussed a range of Easter themed art. They talked as a group about what they could see in each picture and then went deeper by discussing how each picture was telling us something about Jesus’s victory when he rose from the dead. Maddi and Liv talked…

Today, Upper School used blindfolds for their outdoor challenges. We split into two groups again with one group working with Emilia and one with Mrs Hurley. Mrs Hurley’s group had to work with a partner who wore a blindfold and led them around a tricky trail just using verbal instructions.…

One of the phonics games our children play is called ‘Nice to meet you’. Each child has a word which is their name for the game. They greet each other with a handshake and “nice to meet you ….” Reading the word their friend is holding. It’s a great game which you can easily play at home!

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This half term in our PE lessons we are fovusing on both~

• Outdoor Adventurous Activities- teamwork and problem solving
• Fielding and Batting - Rounders

We have made the best of the lovely weather and managed some rounders this week, with the children learning to put some of their…

As part of our science topic ‘habitats’ the children found a variety of minibeasts whilst looking in micro habitats in our outdoor area and around the meadow area of our field. 
 

Our Year one and two children used their recent maths learning where we have been looking at data collection in…