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Before the rain started, we enjoyed planting new vegetables in their new beds. We carried on with this on Friday morning when the weather was better! We are looking forward to watching them grow and harvesting to use with our school meals. 
 

Our Geography topic this half term is a local study, so this morning we completed a transport survey of how people travel to Great Haywood. 

Our year 6 children had a wonderful time walking around Shugborough with our school friend and chaplain - Kevin.

The children donned their gardening gloves and set to work tidying up our lovely outdoor classroom today. They got stuck in weeding and tidying, making friends with the caterpillars, worms and ladybirds along the way!

What a lovely time Class 1 have had this afternoon working with their friends and parent helpers to help tidy our outdoor classroom and plant some plants. Our outdoor classroom looks fantastic!

Thank you to all the parent helpers who came to join us!

We are looking forward to see how…

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…

Oh no! NASA crashed one of their space craft in to our school today! Tim Peake tasked the children with sorting out the debris by material group, ready for the next mission. 
 

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.