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We have had the delivery of our VERY special books. Well done to the 25 children who managed to get their writing published in our Writing competition! Always proud of our very talented children. 

This week Nursery are studying the artist Andy Goldsworthy. Yesterday we talked about Andy Goldsworthy and discussed his sculptures, the natural materials that he liked to use, where he produced his artwork and the shapes that we could see in his designs. 
Today we went on a hunt around the…

Acting out rowing the Norse longship that would allow the Norse people to travel across the sea, through the fjords and down rivers. Lots of tiring work to the sound of “Heave!”

This week Year 3 have looked at the artist Carl Warner who uses fruit and vegetables in his art work. The children have used this for inspiration and created their still life with different fruit and vegetables. We have been really impressed with the art work produced great work…

This week in Maths we have finished off our learning all about translating and describing coordinates on a grid. Year 4 found this difficult at first as this required a lot of focus to count each square. But then towards the end of the week year 4 have shown incredible resilience and have produced…

This week we have started to prepare for our independent write which will be a narrative retell of Lilia's quest to meet Razvani. We have focussed upon extending sentences in a variety of ways through using a range of conjunctions, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases. Year 4 have showed a…

Puffins used their bodies to move in time to the music and to follow the beat of the music.  They enjoyed singing “high/low” extracts and clapping to copy the owls.  We have some real movers in this class!

Puffins used their bodies to move in time to the music and to follow the beat of the music.  They enjoyed singing “high/low” extracts and clapping to copy the owls.  We have some real movers in this class!

Today we checked to see how our cress seeds were growing.  Some pots had a rather strange smell coming from them!  Others looked exactly as we had left them the other week - seeds and cotton wool.  Using our investigative skills we decided that sunlight and water were the most ideal conditions…

Today in Science we have learned about Jane Goodall, whose an animal scientist called a conservationist. Her work with chimpanzees has helped us learn many new things about chimpanzees such as the fact they eat meat and use tools. She discovered chimpanzees behaviour is similar to humans and had…

Our cress has finally finished growing! Today we were very excited to taste our cress. it was a little bit strong on its own and some of us weren’t keen, but when we mixed it with egg mayonnaise it tasted much better! We recalled the steps that we had taken to grow our cress and we’re proud of our…

We have enjoyed using parenthesis to add detail in out English work today!