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10G have been incredibly busy this week. As well as practising our parenting skills and working on challenging gender stereotypes we have been very busy learning all about the human body, practising writing letters, developing our ICT skills, practising our maths skills and working on attacking…

This week at school we are thinking about challenging gender stereotypes. In 7A we have been thinking about gender stereotypes in terms of job roles. We read the story “Charlie The Firefighter” and discussed whether we thought Charlie would be a male or female firefighter. Most learners thought…

10G have a busy and fun filled week this week. We have enjoyed writing a letter to Miss Bamber and Mrs Lilley inviting them to video call with us so that we can ask them lots of questions all about being a new parent. We also enjoys learning all about Remembrance Day. We read a story all about why…

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 11R remained silent for two minutes to remember those who have died, or fought, or lost loved ones whether serving in the armed forces or as civilians, as part of conflict to protect our democratic freedoms.

We were proud of 11R’s mature…

7A have loved learning about Bonfire Night this week as part of our Celebrations topic. 

On Wednesday afternoon, we completed a challenge to create safety fireworks for the younger children to refer to on Bonfire Night. We listened to a safety presentation and then added our own suggestions…

10G have had a very busy week. We have been working on our hockey skills in PE and even begun practising our attacking and defending skills. In English we have been writing letters to Miss Bamber and Mrs Lilley to see how they are and how their babies are doing. We have also been having lots of…

We have had a great first week back after half term. 

There has been lots of firework and bonfire themed fun this week. 

In our My Thinking and Problem Solving sessions we have been working on recognising objects up to 10 in different arrangements, adding 1 digit numbers together using…

This term our theme is Celebrations. We have really enjoyed celebrating Halloween this week. We completed a Blue-Bot challenge to make potions, completed a Halloween workout, played Halloween games, wrote about Halloween on Purple Mash, had fun in the photo booth and enjoyed Halloween treats. We…

This week 7A worked on a spaghetti challenge in pairs. They had ten minutes to see who could build the tallest tower using spaghetti and playdough. Jake and Megan won the challenge and we discussed the team work skills they used to support winning the challenge such as good talking, helping each…

Hi everyone, 

It’s great that you are all continuing to work hard at home. Last week we finished reading Mary Anning and the Time Twister on Purple Mash. I hope you all enjoyed the story. The work you have done answering questions on each chapter is fantastic. It would be great if you could…

Hi everybody, 

This half term, as part of our “dinosaurs” topic, 7R will be reading “Mary Anning and the Time Twister” by Louisa Glancy. Each week will be reading one chapter of the book on Purple Mash and then we will complete activities based on that chapter. During chapter 1, we met a class…

We’re going on a lion hunt, 

We’re going to catch a big one, 

We’re not scared, we’ve been there before!

This week in chestnut class our story has been “We’re Going on a Lion Hunt”. We have had lots of fun swishing in the long grass, splashing in the lake and squelching in the swamp…