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This week, our Reception class took their learning outside for a sensory scavenger hunt, and what a wonderful adventure it was! As part of Maple Class' Scie topic on using our five senses, we explored the world around us using our eyes, ears, noses, and hands to discover all sorts of natural…

In English we are reading the book ‘One Boy’s War’ to link in with our topic on WW2. Today we took on the role of Sydney (an 16 year old recruit) and asked him questions about his time in the war. The children used their knowledge to respond as Sydney and answer some tough, heart-wrenching…

Oak class enjoyed our trip to the National Memorial Arboretum. We took part in workshops where we learnt about evacuation and rationing. We also explored lots of WW11 memorials and ended the day with an act of remembrance in the chapel. This gave us a chance to reflect on all the people who…

We have been learning about water resistance. To test our theories we have been exploring the idea of streamlining. We have learnt that large shapes experience more water resistance and so move more slowly through the water.

As part of our history topic we have been exploring WW11 artefacts. We have especially enjoyed trying on the gas masks, although we wouldn’t like to use one for real!

Reception have been busy consolidating their phonics learning this week through some exciting games!

The children moved around the hall while the music played - then, when the music stopped, they quickly jumped onto a spot and picked up the grapheme card. Everyone had a turn reading the…

This week, Reception took their maths learning outside to explore the numbers 4 and 5. The children had so much fun finding, making and representing these numbers in different ways using the resources around them.

They worked brilliantly together to make groups of 4 and 5 using tyres,…

We have had fun on European languages day: taking part in quizzes to try and guess what languages we could hear. Creating posters about how learning a language can help our hearts and minds and learning the names of some new languages across the world.

Maple Class had a fantastic time celebrating European Languages Day today!

We started by listening to the "Voices of Europe" song and enjoyed joining in and dancing to the music. We also learned how to say "hello" in different European languages — including French, Spanish, German, Italian, and…

Today we learnt to sign our names and proudly showed the class.

We joined in with the song ‘Voices of Unity’ and created actions for the chorus. Our freestyle dance moves during the instrumental were incredible!

We followed this with our French lesson, holding conversations with our…

In Science today the children investigated how friction plays a part in movement. They investigated different materials to see which one had the most friction.

We are learning about the living conditions in the trenches. The children were able to create their own trench fit for soldiers.