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Summer Reading Challenge 2021
Wild World Heroes Join the Wild World Heroes for a summer of reading fun! Available online and in public libraries from now until September, the challenge provides fun, reading for pleasure activities for all abilities and helps prevent the summer reading dip during...
Aqua class playing and learning
This week in Aqua Class the children have been playing and learning. We have been choosing to write letters and cards to each other and have done some super duper learning. They have played maths games to practice their skills and have been exploring with water and...
Cyan class
In English, we have been writing a story about plastic. We had the option of making the story with portals or you could make it realistic. We also made poems about the Smoky Mountain Garbage Dump in the Phillipines and how people are making a living there. In...
Yr 2 buzzzzzzing about
Azure class have been busy being trainee Year 3s for the last couple of weeks! They have worked very hard to write very neatly and to think about what they are writing carefully. They have rightfully been very proud of their efforts! They have also made fantastic Bee...
Viney Hill Yr 6 2021
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Midnight – Sports day and a home-made beach
We had our fruit and milk sitting on our beach beside our lighthouse. We could hear the sound of the waves crashing onto the beach. It sounded lovely. We all like going to the beach to dig and rock pool and swim. We made the lighthouse out of plastic soap containers....
Turquoise Class – Star Warts and the Lindy Hop
We've mostly been rehearsing our musical Star Warts - see picture of Ben (Lord yoda) and Cora (R-U-1-2). We've also been learning more about WW2: better equality for women and rationing (see the picture of some pupils measuring quantities in pounds and ounces for WW2...
Sapphire class have plenty to tell you about
What a week it has been. We started off with Y3/4 Sports Day on Monday morning. We were lucky that the weather stayed dry and didn't rain the event off. The first part of the morning involved us being put into teams. There were 10 in total and we had to compete...
PRIDE
Last week one of our Year 6 pupils gave a brilliant assembly for Year 5/6 about 'Pride' month and has promised to do another one soon. This piece of writing by her covers some of the same ground she covered in the assembly. Pride Pride means to be proud of who you...
Letters against plastic use
Learning Exemplar: Year 3/4 : Plastics topic: Science and English: Summer 21 We are looking for 'botheredness' from our pupils. For the sake of good learning as much as anything else but also for the sake of nurturing young people who will grow up confident to speak...
Nursery having fun outside
Teal class and their art gallery
Teal Class have had a very busy week learning about Claude from 'Claude in the City'. They had lots of fun turning the classroom into an art gallery. The Reception children painted self-portraits and the Year 1 children painted landscapes. The children made lots of...
T-shirt bags, Matter and Time in Royal class
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....
A one of a kind, incredible experience in Sky class!
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...
Something in the ether
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 Class. Henry Moore, hand ball and the Lindyhop.
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 get arty and active
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...
Inspiring poetry
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...