Another busy week in Royal class! In science, we are learning all about states of matter. The three states of mater are solid, liquid and gas. So far we have learned about solids and liquids. An example of a solid is sand and an example of a liquid is pineapple juice....

This week in Sky Class, our experience has been one of a kind, as we’ve been learning about some incredible stuff! We have certainly learnt and enjoyed a lot this week, and had a great deal of fun whilst we're at it. For our morning exercise we have been learning the...

Creativity How often have I said how much I love working in this school? As I say in my Welcome Message on the website, ‘it is because something really quite special exists in the ether in and around this village and the school can’t help but be swept up in it.’ It is...

Cobalt’s wax relief paintings showing a dog fight over St Pauls We did Henry Moore inspired wax resist paintings of wartime scenes.  It was lots of fun and with fantastic results.  I found that you need to rub the wax on quite hard for it to resist the paint.  We...

Indigo class were buzzing to start their bee topic! We have explored the following questions… Why do we need bees? Why are bees threatened? How bad is it?  Are there alternatives to bees? What can be done to protect bees? In maths, we have been looking at data and how...

How often have I said how much I love working in this school? As I say in my Welcome Message on the website, ‘it is because something really quite special exists in the ether in and around this village and the school can’t help but be swept up in it.’ It is a warm...

Aqua Class have been delving into the amazing world of bees. We learnt lots of fascinating bee facts and how important they are. Did you know honey bees have 5 eyes? Did you know that only female bees sting? Did you know the queen bee lays one egg in each cell. The...

Azure Class have been very busy learning about bees and why they are endangered. They can now tell you why bees are important to the world, what they do and how they do it. They are also thinking about what we should be doing to prevent them becoming extinct! They...

Cyan Report From the Frontline By Ted, Olly and Will A couple weeks ago we were writing letters to plastic polluting companies. We asked them to stop making plastic bottles.  We were typing  facts and questions we had researched about them and plastic pollution. We...

Y5/6 Rounders tournament Today we had a Rounders tournament and Mr Tovey picked numerous people to participate in the tournament, it was located at Stratford court. The first team we went up against was Gastrels and unfortunately we lost to them. Despite our...

What a fab time Year 6 had at Viney Hill. Enjoy these extra photos of the children using resilience, courage, cooperation and above all, enjoyment.

Great alarm when a rogue wolf was spied at school on Monday! It came right into assembly! Luckily the Reception and Year 1 children know the story of Red Riding Hood really well and have written much nicer endings, so one child even suggested the wolf might just want...

On Monday morning, we went on an exciting adventure back in time on a walk round Minchin Hampton (as it used to be written) to see what it was like for evacuees 82 years ago! Talking of evacuees, Marjorie and Patricia Thomas were evacuated to Minch because of the 2nd...

Sapphire's report from the front line. The week started on a really positive note. We had a cake sale in Y3/4 (held in the previous week) to raise money for endangered animals, especially ones affected by the plastic crisis and global warming issues our planet is...

Year 1 have been learning to classify animals this week in Science. Our focus has been on bees because it was World Bee Day on Thursday. We have thought about a bee's body parts and what they use them for. We all labelled a diagram of a bee. We know that bees are...

Report from Royal: This week in Royal class, we have been creative whilst stencilling and making posters about the environment. We used stippling brushes to create our pictures. I liked placing the stencils in different places and the detailed butterfly that Evie...

Sky Class’s report from the front line By Jack Williams At the start of the week all of year 6 went to Viney Hill for 2 days - no nights due to coronavirus - and participated in a series of different activities like canoeing, abseiling, biking etc. I think the...