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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...

STEM Space Industry Visitor https://youtu.be/aFaGxR8_sIU On Monday year 5 and 6 had a visitor called Camilla.  She’s a scientist and space expert.  She told us about all the jobs you can do if you want to be in the space industry.  To do that you need to study science...

This term we have been very busy in Royal class! We are doing The pebble in my pocket in English where we described a pebble and made a poem about it. We are learning lots about how the Earth was made. In maths are learning about numbers with decimal places and doing...

Sapphire Class Newsletter English This term we have been reading a picture book called The Pebble in my pocket. It is a non-fiction text but presented as a story of the history of our world. We’ve all got pebbles to focus on. We are learning about how the world came...

Year One in Teal Class have been creating some delicious and healthy yogurt bowls in their DT lessons. The children demonstrated great cutting skills when chopping up the fruit and loved sitting in the sunshine eating them once they were ready

Dear Parents/ Carers, ‘On Monday (little bit rainier than Tuesday) we went on a 6 mile walk through Princess Anne’s estate and across to Avening. We were going a rock tour- as in a tour of local stone age standing stones. We saw a stone with a hole in it that had been...

We basically did a human timeline on the field with a very, very long tape measure.  One end was now and one end was the past.  We put people at different points in history that we've learned in school. I was Howard Carter (the man who found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922...

This week we have had a few days without the noisy Y4s because they have been on their residential to Viney Hill. Because of this, the Y3s were split into 2 groups and have spent Monday to Wednesday being busy. We had a mini English unit all about mythical creatures...