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Today we’ve enjoyed completing Maths activities for our lesson. We used our addition, subtraction and multiplication skills to solve problems, play games and to create colourful mosaics. 

Today we collected data from our class about our favourite story this year. We created a tally chart before making a huge pictogram. We learned that the most popular was The Worst Witch. 

We were very excited this morning as Jellyfish won the attendance award for KS2! Well done everyone.

Last week, Year 4 went to BeWILDerwood to explore the outdoors. We had such a fantastic time zooming down zip lines, getting lost in sky mazes and sliding down super speedy slides! Both Manatees and Stingrays represented the school wonderfully and it was so lovely to see the children having a…

This afternoon in DT we made kites using straws, feathers, wrapping paper and string in our DT topic ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’. We had great fun making them and I was so impressed with how they turned out

This week in Science we conducted two experiments to explore the function of the roots and the xylem within plants. The children had a lot of fun submerging their carrots in water as well observing the role of the xylem in transporting water and nutrients to the flower and leaves changing the…

This week in writing, we have been reading and finding features of persuasive letters ready to write our own letter next week.

Year 6 have continued to work on transition in preparation for moving to high school! We are completing transition booklets, which we will bring home at the end of term, full of memories of Waterside and our hopes and dreams for the future.

Today Year 3 have been investigating roots, they have started an experiment where they will watch the roots of a carrot grow over time.

In preparation for our last piece of writing, a journalistic report, we brainstormed all we knew about a key eyewitness in the story of ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’.

In our ICT lessons, year 2 have been looking at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and trying to recreate his artwork using the laptops and tablets.  You can see from some of the children’s work that this is an artist who used lots of lines and bold colours in his paintings.

The Puffins had a fantastic time at the Monkey Forest today.  We even saw a baby monkey that had been born overnight.  The children were a real credit to the school and our tour guide told us lots of interesting facts about the monkeys.