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  • South Brockwell Farm Visit to St Mary's - Red and Orange classes

    Thu 20 Jun 2024

    Red and Orange class thoroughly enjoyed the visit from Brockwell Farm to St Mary's on Monday. The children thoroughly enjoyed meeting the two miniature ponies the two sheep and the goat and baby kid.  The farm let us know how impressed they with our children as they were so keen to learn and join in, listened well and were quiet and respectful around the animals.  Well done Red and Orange classes.

     

  • Year 3 Ukelele Concert and Open Day

    Thu 20 Jun 2024

    Year 3 gave a wonderful performance of some of their ukulele songs they've been practising.  Many thanks to Mrs. Scott from  'Create Music' for all her help and support this year, and many thanks to our parents and carers for coming to support the children, they loved the opportunity to perform!  Afterwards, we shared some class based work we were proud of.  

  • Year 6 Science lessons about the circulatory system

    Fri 14 Jun 2024

    On Tuesday in Science, Year 6 learnt about blood and all the components within it that help to make our body work. We created our own visual representations of blood: complete with red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. We then spoke about giving blood, and why it is important to help other people. We researched about the eight different blood types and the process of what happens to the blood we donate. We plan to write our own letters to persuade more people to give blood to help save lives.

  • Year 6 trip to Bowles for a ‘Safety in Action’ Day

    Fri 14 Jun 2024

    On Wednesday year 6 took a trip to Bowles (our residential location) for a Safety in Action Day. We had staff from the Fire, Police, and Ambulance Service along with other Bowles staff who gave us very informative and interactive sessions on various aspects of safety scenarios.

     

  • Year 6 Forest School activities

    Fri 14 Jun 2024

    Year 6 spent Thursday enjoying being back at Forest School, and reminding ourselves how to use everything safely whilst working  as a team. We spent time in the mud kitchen, playing in the hammock, den building, team building by playing bugs in a flood, mini beats hunting, whittling sticks and wood carving as well as digging in our garden area. Also we enjoyed our traditional hot chocolate and reflection time around the fire pit.

  • Year 3 have been learning about the artist Joan Miro

    Fri 14 Jun 2024

    Year 3 have been exploring the surrealist artist Joan Miro.  Last week, we looked at his use of colours and lines and created our own collages inspired by his work.  This week, we added a second layer with automatic drawing - adding lines and marks with different thickness to reflect our responses and feelings to words and phrases.

  • Year 3 have been investigating Shape in their Maths lessons

    Fri 14 Jun 2024

    This week in maths we have been learning lots about shapes.  We have built upon the terms horizontal, vertical and diagonal to learn about perpendicular and parallel lines, and thought about different sized angles, identifying acute, obtuse and right angles in the classroom and in shapes.  These are tricky concepts to remember and Mrs Cook was very proud of the children's efforts.

  • Gardening Club

    Fri 07 Jun 2024

    This mild but rather wet weather has been perfect for our veggie plot.

    Our budding gardeners have a vast array of vegetables and herbs growing.

    This year we planted our broad beans seeds we had stored and dried from last years crop and took runners from last years strawberry plants it has been so exciting to experience the cycle of self sufficiency.

    The broad beans are now huge and strawberries are ripening nicely.

    We can't wait to see what pops up next ! 

  • D Day 80th anniversary KS2 Assembly

    Fri 07 Jun 2024

    This week was the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings and on Thursday Mr Neill led an assembly for our children in KS2 where the children were able to reflect on the service and experiences of those who were involved in this significant historical event. Thank you to Mr O’Keeffe for providing some WW2 era artefacts for the children to explore.

     

  • Year 3 Athletics

    Fri 07 Jun 2024

    Year 3 kick started their athletics unit in PE with some distance running to build up their stamina.  We then learnt all about the correct javelin technique with a throwing line and a safety line, before we started learning to measure our distances correctly.  We finished with some sprint heats - thinking about a straight head and pumping arms for some extra power!  Thank you Mr. Pappa for another fun filled, active hour!