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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

In Cyan Class we made bags from old T-shirts, you could choose to have tassels on your bag or not. In maths we have learned about kilometers, meters, millimeters and mass. In art we have been using stencils and have designed our own to make posters. In science we are...

Year 2 have been learning about the importance of our commons for conservation. We had a fabulous day of artwork with Gemma Sampson where she told us all about the important rare blue butterflies and skylarks that we have here. We learned how clever nature is in...

In Midnight Class we have been enjoying our daily run around the track. We are getting fitter and fitter and some of us can run round the track three times which is about a mile. We have also been enjoying having our fruit and milk in the wildlife area. A few weeks...

English We have written our own Ted Talks asking the public to take more notice of the plastic problem. It was quite hard to get the writing going to begin with as we haven't written speeches before. We talked about the style of our written work, the use of rhetorical...

Nursery Nursery were very busy last term - celebrating the Coronation, planting a tree for Earth Day, exploring and playing in our new outside area as well as enjoying the beauty of our local area.

In Cobalt we have been learning more about the Stone Age and enjoyed a lovely afternoon outside making clay pots.  It was a lot trickier than we thought it was going to be but everyone persevered and produced some great pots.  We were very grateful to Evie and Bethany...

Watercolour painting, sharing books, programming b-bots with algorithms, building a slide and playing with water.

This term we have been working hard and having lots of fun in Azure Class. We start the day with deliberate and retrieval practise for SPaG and maths. Here we are practising writing graphemes, matching contractions, matching suffixes and sorting words into nouns,...

We have been learning about rocks,fossils and soils in science. Metamorphic,sedimentary and igneous are the three forms of rock. Not long ago we were doing a fossil collectors guide. Anommite  is one of the fossils we have looked at, and there are more so here is some...