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...

Indigo Class have been working exceptionally hard of late and I am very proud of them. We have been practising starting our lessons by showing SHELL (Sitting properly/ Hands in your lap/Eyes on the teacher or board/Listening/ and hopefully therefore Learning)! We have...

The sock wabbits were really fun to make.  They are really fluffy and cuddly.  Sewing the eyes was challenging – I had to redo one because it was hanging off.  After we made sock wabbits, we can make a sock creature.  These take longer because they have more parts to...

At Nursery we have been learning all about the life cycle of frogs and have enjoyed several visits to the school pond to see how the tadpoles are developing. We have been developing our physical skills playing and climbing outside and we have enjoyed engaging in lots...

Azure Class have been busy drawing story maps for the story of The Lonely Beast. The children worked carefully and enthusiastically. They then used their story maps to help them write a diary as if they were the beast. In PSHE we talked about how to look after our...

This term Aqua Class have been delving in to our Little Red Riding Hood story.  We have been painting and drawing the characters from the story, making puppets and performing puppet shows. We have also been writing the beginning of the story. In maths we have been...

Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork! In Cyan class we have been working on teamwork and how it is important to work together. Our teamwork has been reflected in our ‘ecosystems in a bottle’ which we made around the camp fire in outdoor learning. Also while we have learning...