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We had a fantastic history day today learning about the Ancient Egyptians. All morning we had a workshop with Professor Tuesday, who is an expert in Egyptology. She told us about the importance of the River Nile, some of her favourite pharaohs, the timeline of Ancient Egypt and, of course, all…

We have had a really fun afternoon learning all about the ancient Greeks. Professor Tuesday told us all about the different city-states and we acted out key parts of each one. We also made a human timeline showing the main periods of history during the Ancient Greek times. She then gave us lots of…

 The children looked outside for things that grow. They found lots of plants and flowers and used the IPad to take their own photos.

Our new topic is all about things that grow. We are learning the rhyme “Mary, Mary, quite contrary.” We used natural materials to make a garden we would like to grow.

On Monday we had a lovely afternoon with our Year 5 buddies. Lambs came to visit us at school, we got to feed them some milk and learn all about them. 

Our first day in summer at the field! For our second lesson of athletics we walked down to the field to practice our long distance running, jumping and push throwing!

We had a visit from some lambs! We went to see them with our Buddies and had discussions about their first movements, their needs as living things and thought about the life cycle of sheep.

Today, we have started our unit on humans and animals. We drew round a child and then had a go at drawing the bones we have in our body. We were a little unsure to begin with but Cedric the Skeleton arrived to help us name some of the 206 bones in our body. We learnt lots of interesting facts…

Today we had fun cracking codes and solving puzzles with our STEM Engineers Helen, Rachel and Mr Monk!

Today, Year 4 started their English unit on classical poetry. We have been looking at the poems of TS Eliot in his book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. The first poem is all about naming cats. According to TS Eliot, all cats should have 3 names including a secret one. We made cat badges…

This term our RE topic is Women in the Old Testament. To begin our topic we started thinking about the important and inspirational women in our lives and then about famous women. We found out about Junk Tabei, Wangari Maathei, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Emmeline Pankhurst and Dr Gladys…

We had a lovely morning with Nursery. We did some mindful yoga, positive affirmations, Easter cross making and some mindful painting.