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Reception build bridges

Reception has been developing their teamwork and collaboration skills by completing the 'bridge building' challenge! Each team had to work together to try and build the tallest bridge which was strong enough to balance a little bear along the top. It was so lovely to...

News from Cyan (Yr 3 and 4)

News From Cyan! Trip to Bristol Museum The artefact that I liked the best was the head rest as it was interesting to learn what they used for pillows in Egyptian times.  The most interesting thing in the Egyptian area was the mummies.  Sophia The best bit about the...

Turquoise Gym

In PE we have been doing gymnastics.  The picture collage shows some of the gymnasts doing our final performance.  We were looking for strength; balances (patch and point), pike, straddle and tuck body shapes; working together in unison and canon. We were pleased with...

Sapphire Class and their Learning

Sapphire Yr3/4 Science We have spent the past few weeks investigating what substances are the best to preserve apples. It’s like we are mummifying apples just like the Ancient Egyptians mummified their pharaohs. We cut three apples in half so we had six pieces. Each...

Royal Class (Yr3/4) have been very busy this term!

We can’t believe our first term in Royal Class is already over! It’s been really fun and we laugh a lot.  We’ve been learning about how to make our memories work better and trying to be really neat with our writing. In English we have been taught about The Ancient...

Sky Class Maya and Aztec Printing

SKY CLASS: Printing Sun Stones, Inspired by the Maya and Aztecs Throughout this term we have been looking at the Maya and Aztecs in our topic lessons. We decided to include this theme in our art lessons and recreate the sunstone as a print using 3 different colours....

Cyan are constantly learning!

Cyan - curriculum of the week Maths In maths we are adding hundreds, tens and ones.  The year 3's have been working on the hundreds tens and ones and sometimes bridging into the thousands. Year 4's however have been working very hard in the thousands column and...

Viney Hill and Yr 5 Printing

Cobalt newsletter w.c 9.10.23- Viney, bikes and printing… Amelie: I found Viney Hill a very big adventure- setting myself challenges that I have never done before. When I believed I couldn’t, I pushed on and persevered. My result and opinion of the trip was it was a...

Turquoise

Turquoise Science: In science we have been learning about materials. And testing them  on several different experiments such as dissolving and mixing different materials with water and timing how long it takes to disappear, separating materials using sieving, a magnet...

Sapphire Class and their learning

Sapphire newsletter  History We are so excited to learn more about the discovery of Tutankhamun and how it impacted history. We have already learnt about who Howard Carter was and how he came to find the missing tomb. It turns out that although Howard Carter was the...

Mexicolore with Year 5 and 6

Year 5/6 Mexicolore – Sky Class Write up Led by Ian and his granddaughter Johanna from Mexicolore, on Friday 8th September, Years 5 and 6 were immersed in a morning of Ancient Maya and Aztec culture. The children had the chance to create music, chants, dress up in...

Reception Settle In

1.Reception have been busy settling into the swing of things by exploring one of our favourite books 'The Colour Monster'. It has given lots of opportunities to talk about feelings and emotions and we all really enjoyed thinking about what makes us feel happy. 2.There...

Royal Class Yr3/4

We’ve had a great start to the new school year in Royal Class and have done so much already! In Music we have been doing Mamma Mia by ABBA. We have been doing the pulse, the beat and the singing.  We copied off the board for some dance moves too and we really, really...

Mrs Bugg the Dancing Queen

Gimme Gimme (Rec/Y1) Half past two, And I stood inside the classroom, And I look around the room, And I don't know what to do this afternoon. It is chaos, I look out of the window, And the playground's such a mess, And there's paint and glue all down my brand new...

If you go down to the woods today…

Year 2 went back to Box Woods this week. We walked all the way there from school without any complaining at all! When there, it took about 30 seconds and then the children were like busy little ants. There was so much activity going on! Lots of team work and...

Royal Class

We can’t believe the year together as a Royal class is almost over! Maths In maths we have been learning about time, also we’ve been learning about measurements and how we can measure lengths, mass and capacity and we have learnt that intervals on a clock are one...

Cobalt Class

Newsletter!   Here in Cobalt we have been planning our SCHOOL PRODUCTION!!!!!   Robin And The Sherwood Hoodies!   We have been doing rehearsals after school on Wednesdays and throughout the day for the whole week. It is getting better and better every day! ...

Aqua class get sporty and churn butter!

Aqua class have been enjoying practising their throwing and skipping skills this week on the school field. We also played a fun game where we worked in two teams to try to get the cones either sitting up like a volcano or scooping down like a bowl. We took on the...

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