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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.

In Maths this week, we have been learning about the importance of Maths as we get older. We have discussed key terminology including 'investment' and  'financial risk' before attempting to make money investing in businesses!

Year 5 Dolphins have revisited their homophone knowledge in their grammar lesson today.  It was lovely to see how this skill has improved since we last investigated it!

Year 6 have been striking their best poses ready for their leavers photos. Watch this space for a letter to explain how you can purchase your child’s photo as a keepsake for their last year in primary school.

This week, we discussed what it is like to be a Christian in Britain today. We talked about how Sunday is a day where traditionally Christians would attend a Church service and then thought about what activities we partake in on a Sunday. Some of us attend Church and some of us spend the day with…

This week had a lovely time visiting our new teachers. Miss Olenczuk taught us about the artist Bradley Theodore and then we painted our self portraits in his style.

We had the best time visiting the Monkey Forest at Trentham Gardens! We learned about where the monkeys live, their diet and behaviour. We had such a good time looking at the monkeys in their habitat and saw lots of baby monkeys too! 

Take a look at a completed pom pom ! One of our determined students finished her's at home! How amazing!

Stingrays have become Dolphins today! We have been working hard with a creative piece of writing based on a music video about a girl and her pet giraffe. We have created our own vocabulary word bank with some adventurous adjectives and adverbs. We have enjoyed reading the stories and we look…

 In funky fingers club we had a go at making Pom poms. What will yours be? A monster? A spider? An octopus? …

Year 6 have been looking at the use of vocabulary in a text and showing a deeper understanding. We have used the 'I do, we do, you do' technique to ensure children are confident when answering question types which require them to show their knowledge of phrases and language.

Today we used our funky fingers to sing and dance to rhymes, we loved one potato, two potato, Tommy thumb, incy wincy spider, twinkle twinkle, Grandmas glasses and many more. We had great fun!