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14 Sep

Autumn Clubs

📢 Club Bookings Opening Tomorrow! 📢 Dear Parents and Carers, We are excited to announce that bookings for our upcoming school clubs will open tomorrow at 9:00 AM via Arbor! Please note the key details below: 🗓️ Booking Opens: Tomorrow at 9:00 AM 📱 How to Book: Via the Arbor App / Portal ⏰ Availability: Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. 📋 Club Agenda: Please see the attached document for the full schedule and details of all available clubs. To secure your child’s spot, please log into your Arbor account from 9:00 AM tomorrow. If you have any issues accessing Arbor, please contact the school office. Thank you for your continued support!

Image of Year 4 P.S.H.E. - Human Machines
14 Sep

Year 4 P.S.H.E. - Human Machines

Year 4's P.S.H.E. topic is all about working together. This week's lesson challenged Year 4 to work as a 'Human Machine', in an effort to show collective working to complete a simple task. It was slightly trickier than expected, as some tasks were rather abstract and needed all in the group to take part and have some part in the machine process. The outcomes were pretty impressive! Year 4 demonstrated great ability to work together and become a real-life human machine!

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14 Sep

Year 4 Science - Leaf Hunt and Classification Keys

Year 4 have been looking at, 'Living things and their Habitats' in our Science lessons. We have learnt how to group things by using classification keys and selecting relevant questions to help do this. In our Science lesson this week, we put our knowledge to the test by collecting leaves from the school grounds on a leaf hunt, and then worked in table groups to help classify the different leaves we had found.

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13 Sep

Year 2 Art - Artists are Explorers and Collectors

Artists are Explorers and Collectors! Our Year 2 artists took their learning outdoors this week to discover how nature can be transformed into art. Inspired by artists who collect natural materials, the children explored our school grounds to gather a wonderful variety of leaves, twigs, pebbles, vibrant flowers, and berries. Working with fantastic focus, they carefully considered shape, colour, and texture to design their own temporary masterpieces. The children worked so hard on their compositions, experimenting with patterns and arrangements to bring their natural treasures to life. Take a look at the photos below to admire some of their incredible, creative artwork!

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10 Sep

Year 3 - Art - Gestural Drawing With Charcoal

This term in art, our Year 3 class is stepping away from tiny sketches at their desks and taking on a high-energy, large-scale creative project using charcoal. Instead of just using their fingers and wrists, the children will be using their whole bodies—stretching, sweeping, and moving to create bold, dynamic marks across huge sheets of paper. By tapping into rhythm and movement, they’ll explore how different gestures create different textures and tones, and the results are looking truly extraordinary!

Image of Year 3 - Science - Sources of Light
10 Sep

Year 3 - Science - Sources of Light

This term, our Year 3 mini-scientists are rolling up their sleeves and stepping into the lab to explore the fascinating world of light and shadows. We’re really focusing on practical, hands-on learning, giving the children a chance to ask big questions, test out their own ideas, and figure out how things work firsthand. It’s always a hugely popular topic, and we can’t wait to see their curiosity take off as they get stuck into some brilliant classroom experiments.

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9 Sep

Reception-Maths-Counting

Reception have had fun this week playing an engaging maths game where they practised identifying numbers and counting colorful fish to find the correct match. The children counted each fish one by one, showing brilliant focus as they matched the quantities to the corresponding written numbers. They also worked well learning how to take turns to use the spinner and choose a number.

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9 Sep

Year 4 English - Making Predictions

This week, Year 4 have been immersed in a variety of clues to gain insight into our vehicle text, before reading. We have examined pictures and artifacts to make sensible predictions about the story, based on what has been presented. Year 4 have some detectives in the making!

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9 Sep

Year 4 Maths - Place Value

Year 4 have been demonstrating their number skills this week. Using resources such as their Chromebooks, Base 10 and place value charts, they have been learning about place value and have been working with numbers up to 5-digits!

Image of Year 1 -PE - Exploring Balance and Landing Safely
9 Sep

Year 1 -PE - Exploring Balance and Landing Safely

Year 1 have had a great PE lesson today. We have been practicing balancing, jumping and landing safely. We added some extra challenge by doing this from a height. The children really embraced the challenge and demonstrated some great skills.

Image of Year 6 - Art - Scaling up Drawings
9 Sep

Year 6 - Art - Scaling up Drawings

How can focusing on the space around an object help bring a 2D drawing to life? Inspired by the iconic life-sized cut-out figures of artist Lubaina Himid, Year 6 have been exploring how flat shapes can transform into interactive art. Using reference silhouettes of animals like cats, lions, and dolphins, the children put their observational skills to the test by studying negative space to accurately map out shapes. They applied the grid method to scale up their chosen images square by square, carefully transferring pencil outlines with accuracy and confidence onto a larger scale.