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The question we are exploring this half term in our RE sessions is ‘What happens in a church?’
 

Today, we talked about how lucky we are to have our church, St Stephen’s so close to our school and to be part of the church community.  We talked about all the different celebrations we have…

Class 1 have received their very own caterpillars this week. They arrived in a special box sent by some important scientists, they have asked us to look after them and observe them as they grow. We have been asked to keep a Caterpillar diary to keep track of the changes that happen. Today we each…

Year one have been exploring mass with some hands on activities this morning.  They enjoyed adding the cubes to balance the scales.

Today we started our Art and Design unit today using watercolours. We explored primary and secondary colours with some colour mixing. We then looked at tints and shades and created lighter and darker colours. 

This week to finish our RE topic finding out why Christians put a cross in an Easter garden, we have heard the story of the Easter weekend and found out why Easter Sunday is such an exciting time for Christians. 
 

We then worked together to create our own flower cross before going to perform…

The children had a lovely surprise this week when the Easter Bunny dropped off some treats.

Wishing all the children and their families a lovely Easter Break.

This week in computing, we have been using closed questions with an answer of only ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to sort objects using a branching database. We practised with different objects such as food or plants. Our challenge was to sort at least 8 dinosaurs, we had to look very carefully at their features…

This week in maths, Class 1 have been finding out about 3D Shapes. We have found out their different names and talked about each shape’s distinct properties. We have printed with the shapes onto an Easter egg template to find out the different 2D shapes they make.

Today, Class 1 took on the 3D…

WOW! What a fantastic time we shared with St. Mary’s Primary today! 
We watched a fabulous interactive stage production, produced some wonderful London’s burning skyline artwork and made our own Tudor style houses.  We were then able to reenact The Great Fire of London and watch how quickly the…

A huge well done to every member of Class 3 who put on a spectacular performance of their play on Monday and again twice on Tuesday! You sang beautifully and made everyone so proud, great acting Class 3! 
 

In Science, we have been learning about the parts of the hand. We used this knowledge to create our own bionic hands which we created from cardboard, string, elastic bands and straws. 

Some of our hands worked well to pick up objects. We had lots of fun creating them. 

We have continued to disassemble our Greenpower cars. We have completely removed the seat, parts of the chassis and the roll bar. Now they are ready to be built back together again.

Our year 5 pupils have made cardboard prototypes of the vehicle.