Investigating how to protect ourselves from UV Rays
In Science we have been discussing how the sun is a natural light source. We created an investigation to explore how we can be protected from UV Rays. We had UV beads which started off as white in the classroom. When we went outside, they changed to pink, purple or yellow due…
Year 5 Stafford Fire Station trip 2026
We had a fantastic time visiting Stafford Fire Station for the Safe and Sound workshop.
Class 4 - Soluble materials
We have been experimenting with soluble materials to see how certain materials dissolve or melt.
Mindful music and sticks!
Class 1 have been continuing to enjoy their mindful moments to help prepare themselves for learning activities after enjoying our continuous provision activities or break times.
Today the children carefully traced the musical lines using our special class sticks. They were all so careful to…
Let’s go to the Dough Disco
To build the strength in our hands and fingers to help so that we can become fantastic writers and create brilliant creations, Class 1 have started their dough disco sessions this week.
Today we had a calmer session to help us learn some of the key moves so that we can start to put the moves to…
Egyptian writing
We have been looking at how the Egyptians communicated through hieroglyphics. We had to crack the coded message we were given before using the hieroglyphic alphabet to write our own names. We all agreed that even though it was fun, our English alphabet is much easier!
Lego printing
We’ve been exploring block printing in art today. Using our prior knowledge of primary and secondary colours, we had a go at block printing with Lego!
Creating our prayer stones
Today, we shared our first RE session in class 1 and we focused on talking about why we share prayers in class throughout the day and how we pray. We spent some time looking at the different items on our prayer table and noticed that we had lots of stones on our prayer table. The children enjoyed…
Basic sentences.
We’ve been going back to basics this week and exploring basic sentence structures. The children matched their chosen subjects and verbs and added capital letters and full stops.
Cross country Autumn 2026
Well done to the Anson team who took part in the cross country tournament today. They were incredible and came third out of seven schools. We had a small team and some of them ran 2 races which has never been done before.
Lichfield Cathedral - RT Rev Michael retirement service
We had a fantastic time at Lichfield Cathedral for the retirement service of the Bishop of Lichfield - Rev Michael.
Testing materials
We had a great time experimenting in Science Tod. The children chose different materials based on their properties, to cushion the egg as it landed. They were very surprised when the metal bottle tops didn’t crack the egg!