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These weeks keep coming thick and fast its almost imposible to keep up.

This week saw the juniors play 2 games of football and 2 games of tag rugby (Wednesday was called off due to the rain). The week started and ended with football with Harrison scoring the only goals (2) on Monday to lead his…

This week we finished our English topic about ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’ and wrote our own stories from the perspective of Samar. We then began looking at narrative poems which tell a story. We read ‘St Thomas by the Water’ and used improvisation to perform the poem which we really enjoyed doing! …

We have come to the end of another busy week. The week began with all the children paining a pot with Jane from ‘Fire 4 U’. Jane then took the pots back to her studio to be glazed, dried and then fired in one of her kilns. Jane has emailed me to say that the pots have gone into her kiln called…

It's been another very busy week for Mrs Hanigan's groups. We made our home-made magnetic compasses this week (and one day, very soon, Mrs Hanigan will get the hang of modern technology and will up load the photos!) We followed our designs carefully and then tested their accuracy against the…

This week we are celebrating Red Nose Day by raising money! 

Mrs Ridings has been teaching us about poetic language and imagery in English. 

"Imagery is a picture that is created in your head when you read a poem." - Emily J

"April Rain was my favourite poem." - Emma

"I liked both…

  We started the week with a SPLASH in Gold Class! We went swimming, which is always a great start to our week! This was our last trip to the leisure centre but it was also the best by far!! The swimming instructors allowed us to get the floats out and have a fun swim. It was BRILLIANT!!!

 On…

This week in Sunshine Class has been a very crafty one! We have been busy making lots of different things. Which I am sure you will love!

We have been learning about Planets this week and have made two amazing books about Mars and Saturn. 

Do you know how many moons Saturn has?

What is…

In English we have been looking at instructions. The children wrote instructions on how to wash their hands and how to make a cake. 

In maths we have been looking at time. Learning about o'clock and half past.

Today is Red Nose Day we had an assembly this morning to look at what Red Nose Day…

Science week has come to an end in Silver class. We have been investigating forces in action. Our task was to design and build a parachute or some other design to support an egg dropped from the top of a set of ladders. At the start of the week we looked at how parachutes work. We then split into…

What a busy week its been this week, with science week in full swing there was still time to enjoy some fun sports. This week was the start of the Infants joining in the sports fun as well as the Juniors. With Mrs Miller taking the helm with the junior sports games I (Mr Price) helped get the…

This week has been a very special week in school as it has been science week. Scientific activities have been happening all across school. In the juniors we decided to have a competition where ecah class had to create a parachute that would protect an egg and not crack it, when dropped from the…

Well..... what a week in Sunshine Class!

Our focus this week has been the book, Aliens Love Underpants. 

We have had lots of fun designing and making our own aliens. We made aliens using lots of different techniques.

" We used pencils to draw aliens." (Nevaeh)

"We used a hard sort of…