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ITS CHRISTMAS!! 🌟

What an amazing first term we’ve had in Year 6! 🎉 The pupils have worked incredibly hard, not just in the classroom, but also in the wider school community. From tackling exciting challenges in our curriculum to showing kindness and teamwork around the school, Year 6 has truly…

Here is the finished art work we began four weeks ago. Some have been taken home already, so you will see in reality they are 3-D images. I think you can see quite clearly the different personalities of the children.

We have also had a great deal of fun this week, with making cards, carol…

This week marked our final week of 2025 and what a fantastic way to end the term! 🎄✨

📚 English
To finish our English learning, we completed our letters to Stig, using emotive language and thoughtful questions to ask where he is and why he left. During our whole-class reading sessions, we also…

What a wonderfully busy last week of term in Year One!

The children took part in three performances of 'The Nativity' for the school, parents and families. They played the important part of the shepherds in the story and sang their hearts out throughout! Well done, Year One! You were amazing…

Poem Analysis: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 🌼

This week in Year 6, we studied the beautiful poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. We explored the figurative language, including personification (like daffodils “dancing”) and hyperbole (daffodils “outshining the stars”)…

It’s been an action-packed week in our classroom, full of learning, creativity, and celebration.

📚 English Adventures

We proudly finished our own narratives about Michael, Mina, and Skellig flying. Everyone showed off their wonderful vocabulary, and Mrs M and Mrs E were especially impressed…

Wow — what a busy, exciting, and educational week we’ve had! ✨

✏️ English

This week in English we explored how to write letters in first person. Linked to our class book Stig of the Dump, we stepped into the shoes of Barney and drafted heartfelt letters asking Stig to return. Mrs Broda-Kaye…

In History lessons Year One children are developing their understanding of the past and present. They can recognise some events and ways of life in the past and compare this to what is happening now in the present. They were really keen to make their own family trees and to discuss the history of…

Artists in the making 🎨🏛️✨

In Year 6 Art, we learned that Brunelleschi designed Florence Cathedral and that Ghiberti created relief sculptures, including the famous Gates of Paradise 🚪✨.

Inspired by this, we designed our own relief tiles of Florence Cathedral 🖊️. This week, we modelled our…

Another fantastic week of learning and creativity in Year 5!

📖 English

We are excited to begin a short piece of creative writing inspired by Skellig. Our focus has been on using expanded vocabulary, similes, and carefully crafted sentence structures to build atmosphere. The mystery of…

We’ve had another fantastic week packed full of learning, discovery, and new challenges. Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to across the curriculum.

📘 English

This week we focused on writing chronological reports all about the digestive system. We explored the key features of factual…

Year One children have loved reading the story 'Coming Home' by Michael Morpurgo in their English lessons. This beautiful story of a tiny robin making the long and often treacherous journey home in time for Christmas has really captured the children's imagination and they can't wait to see what…