Year 5’s Art Successđ¨
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A huge well done to all of Year 5 for completing our collage project.  The children have worked collaboratively to produce an outstanding piece of art work which will be proudly on display in our new Trust base. The project involved producing a large class collage using fabric and beading in the style of Nigerian artist Jimoh […]
Year 5 Train to Become Sports Leaders!
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Year 5 had a visit from Mr Walker, our Trust Sports Development Manager to train the children as sports leaders for our school.â˝ The children learned all about what the job of a sports leader involves, the skills such as dedication, good listening and strong communication skills which are needed and some of the games […]
Beech Class Learn About Lego
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This week in History Beech Class have been extremely busy learning about the invention of Lego. We have already learnt about toys from the past and we started our lesson by playing with wooden blocks. Some of us really liked to play with these but we found that our creations fell down very easily! We […]
With Me in Mind Visit
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As part of Childrenâs Mental Health Week, the With Me in Mind Team visited school to talk to the children about how they connect with themselves, and each other. They presented this on a chain
Hazel Class Take On Ninja Warrior
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The children had a fabulous morning taking part in the ninja warrior workshop. đ¤¸ââď¸ đ¤¸ââď¸ They behaved impeccably well and the external providers (ninja warriors) were very impressed! Well done Hazel class! đ
Children Mental Health Weekđ
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 Today, our class challenge from Taskmaster to celebrate mental health week was to make our best rainbow. We used things from around the school to make our own, class rainbow. What a great start to Childrenâs Mental Health Week.đđ
FS2s Trip to the Transport Museum
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This term, the children have been learning about different modes of transport. We have learnt about a range of cars, boats, aeroplanes, trains and rockets through reading stories from Author ‘Tony Mitton’. We have sorted a variety of transport into sea, air and land. We have discussed the vocabulary ‘past’ and ‘present’ and used this […]
TEKK Challenge Part 3
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In the third part of this challenge, the children were looking at how to make their project stronger. We tested out some engineering tips, such as building a bigger surface area to make a structure stronger and learning that building with triangle shapes is stronger than building with squares.  They were producing some great designs for their […]
Sophie the Writing Superstar!
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Well done to Sophie who has written her own adventure story at home. Ash class held a parent and child writing together workshop where the children worked hard to plan a journey that they would like to go on (using an animation clip as a stimulus). Sophie  then went above and beyond and turned her planned journey into a story in her own time!
Author Simon Murray Visits Beech Class!
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Last week Beech Class were lucky enough to have an author visit from Simon Murray. He told us how he came up with his character, Icky Doo Dah. We then had a drawing lesson where we drew our own character. We really enjoyed this and some of us have even written our own stories at home about […]