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A busy week this week and the highlight, of course, was our trip to Rockingham Castle. We had a great time visiting the castle and having a look around the building - those bell towers at the front were REALLY tall! As we walked around the castle we were able to see where Henry VIII would have…

What a fantastic and busy week we’ve had in Year 3!

✏️ English
This week we explored the features of letter writing and practiced using emotive language to make our writing more exciting and detailed. We have structured some detailed sentences using a range of adjectives.

➗ Maths
In Maths,…

We’ve had a brilliantly busy week in class, diving into new ideas, exploring big questions, and getting hands-on with our learning.

✍️ English – Portal Stories Come to Life

We proudly finished the first drafts of our portal stories, introducing our imaginative characters and the…

What an exciting week it’s been in Year 4! The children have been working incredibly hard rehearsing for their upcoming play, Hoodwinked. Their enthusiasm and teamwork have been fantastic to see, and the production is really starting to take shape. Lines are being learned, songs are coming…

What another busy and brilliant week of learning in our classroom! 🌟

🔢 Maths
We have been working hard on multiplication, focusing on 2-digit by 1-digit numbers. First, we practised partitioning to help us understand the numbers, and now we are beginning to use the formal written method.…

In our daily Maths lessons Year One children have been exploring length and height. They have learned how to measure with finger steps and cubes, and moved on to the standard units of centimetres. The children have developed their mathematical vocabulary using words such as 'longer', 'shorter',…

Journey to the River Sea 📚🌿

In Whole Class Reading, Year 6 continued reading Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. We read Chapter 18, where the tension in the story really started to grow 😲.

The twins refused to put their reward money in the bank even though the Carter family were…

This week we were lucky enough to get inside the Science Dome! What a fantastic opportunity to see into space and consider what might be far away into sky. The children enjoyed the experience and asked lots of really great questions about constellations and planets. This is a great foundation for…

Year 6 Science – Inheritance and Evolution 🧬🐾

This week in Science, Year 6 learned about inheritance and variation.

We explored how offspring are usually similar to their parents, but not identical. This is because characteristics are passed from parents to their children through…

What a vibrant and busy week we’ve had in class. The children have thrown themselves into every lesson with enthusiasm, curiosity, and plenty of creativity.

✍️ English – Stepping Through the Portal

This week we began writing the first half of our portal stories. The children chose between…

This week in Year 4, we proudly finished our paintings inspired by the famous expressionist artist Edvard Munch. Using his iconic artwork The Scream as our starting point, we created our own expressive versions, each with a unique twist that showed our feelings, ideas, and creativity.

The main…

Monday – West Stow Trip 🏡🛖
On Monday we went on an amazing trip to the Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow. We explored what life was like in Anglo-Saxon times and looked at some of the real artefacts that have been found there. It was a fascinating day and we learned so much about…