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Year 5 and 6 participated in their sports day today, which saw us take part in a range of activities including sprints, obstacle course and javelin. I am so proud of each and every child today for showing determination to finish each race. Here are just some of our competitors! 

We had a great afternoon complete in many different activities for our last ever Sports Day at Primary School!

We had some tight calls for first place during the sprint, some egg-cellent egg and spoon finishers and some outstanding obstacle course winners! 

I couldn’t believe how far the…

Year five Dolphins polished their arithmetic skills today, using a layout WAGOLL to help them. 

To prepare for year 6, as well as our usual lessons we have begun looking at the style of questions used in a past SATs paper

During DT, Year 1 have continued their learning on mechanisms by making a lever. They learn that levers move around a fixed point - the pivot. They used a lever to make Jack climb the beanstalk. They were so impressed with the work they had done.

This week in History we have been  answering the question “How do we celebrate monarchs?”. In doing so we learnt all about the jubilee and how this celebrates the monarchs major milestones. We also  found out that Kings and Queens have two birthdays. During the summer birthday celebration they…

Today in History, we learnt all about how and why Arabia grew so far so fast. We had some very insightful discussions over different factors and produced some terrific justified reasons. Well done Year 4! 

Year 1 have worked on writing in the past tense this week! They learnt that when writing in the past tense we are writing about something that has already happened. at first they found this a little tricky to know how tenses can be changed but eventually they blew us away with their writing.

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This week, Nursery have been talking about how to keep safe on holiday. We looked at this picture and spotted all of the dangers that we could see. We used full sentences to discuss why certain people were not safe and what they should be doing. We practiced our speaking and listening skills,…

Today we have looked at how to read and answers questions about two way tables, these come in a variety of different forms and can be used to measure all kinds of useful data such as; distance, attendance, quantity and capacity. Some of the tables had never been seen before but we were surprised…

Year five Dolphins have been investigating how to correctly read two-way tables today.  They have learnt and used vocabulary such as catogories, rows and columns to aid them in explaining their understanding of their work. Brilliant!

We looked at images of different traditions/ways of life in both Africa and the UK. This included types of traditional clothing, transport and homes. We discussed the images in small groups, making comparisons between the two locations. We then sorted images into groups whilst having some great…