It is so exciting to see the progress being made in the classroom space on the upper floor of the KG1 building. The partitioning has gone up and the frames for the glazing is in – we can’t wait to see the finished space.
Author: Mrs Holroyd (Mrs Holroyd)
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The Beehive
For those of you who are lucky enough to attend you will know that Mrs Morais and her team have worked really hard to make sure that The Beehive aftercare is a lot of fun. She has introduced craft sessions and more exciting choices for Bee’s Tea’s. Here are some pictures of some of the...
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House Charities
This year, the Greeks, Saxons, Romans and Vikings have decided to work together to support one charity. This eliminates any competitiveness and puts the focus solely on supporting a good cause. This year, we will be supporting LifeShare. Lifeshare is a voluntary organisation established to help meet the needs of homeless and vulnerable people in...
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School Parliament – Eco Aims
This week the team met to create an action plan for our Eco School Award application. We have chosen to focus on Litter, Energy & School Grounds. The team split into three groups and chose 2 targets for each area. They are hoping to achieve: Plants in classrooms An outdoor learning area Energy Savings days/hours...
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Spooky Writing
Form 5 have been feeling spooky this week and we have channelled our spookiness into some fantastic creative writing, based on a picture of a creepy, haunted house! A lot of the children wrote fabulous stories, which really creeped me out!! Here are Grace and Charlotte displaying their work!
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Being Different
Despite a week heavy with revision, Form 6 still took the time to reflect as part of our PSHEE learning. We talked about the value of being different; how it enhances life that not everybody is the same. We also discussed how this can sometimes sadly result in people being picked on and came up...
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Spooky Halloween
We’ve all had a ‘spooktacular’ time in our learning this week. We began by composing and performing our own ‘Scary Troll’ poem, focusing on adjectives and adverbs. In Forest School there were lots of spooky themed activities. Our favourites were creating spells and potions, making fire and creating tree monsters! Our commendations this week go to...
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Pumpkin Curry
It was lovely to see the children back at school after the half term holidays. It was Halloween and the children have enjoyed listening to lots of ‘Spooky stories’. One of their favourite stories was Funnybones and the children enjoyed painting their own skeletons. Continuing the spooky theme, the children made magic wands, witches broomsticks...
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Halloween
The children returned to school with a positive attitude this week. In literacy they have enjoyed reading ‘Whatever next’ and writing about the story, thinking about what they would take to space and designing their own rockets. In maths they have learnt about number bonds to 5 and have enjoyed using the Numicon shapes to...
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Beowulf
Form 4 have been enjoying studying Beowulf across history and English lessons. They were able to discuss ideas about what the story of Beowulf tells us about Anglo-Saxon society and culture before trying their hand at character descriptions of either the brave hero Beowulf or his fearsome opponent Grendel. Here are some of their sentences:...