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Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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Shining Stars of the Week
Mon 15 Apr 2024Congratulations to Daphne, Bronson and Harry who are our Shining Stars of the Week. They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values.
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End of Term Service and Stars of the Term
Thu 28 Mar 2024To bring the Spring Term to an end, we joined Rector Johnny and many parents at the Church for our end of term service. Our Year 2 children did a fantastic job of reading the Easter story and all children did a great job of singing our hymns. With Rector Johnny, we reflected on the importance of spreading joy over the Easter holidays and Mrs Hewat awarded our Stars of Term for the Spring Term. Congratulations Harrison, Freddie and Freddie!
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Shining Stars of the Week
Mon 25 Mar 2024Congratulations to Otto, Freddie and Quinn who are our Shining Stars of the Week. They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.
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Emergency services - Police talk
Fri 22 Mar 2024A huge thank you to Louis' mum, Ellen, who kindly came in to talk to the children and do a presentation on the police and how they help us, as part of our PSHE lesson.
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Science Week!
Wed 20 Mar 2024We recently celebrated Science Week – a ten day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths. A huge thank you to Mrs Mason for organising it!
Visitor 1 – Mr Luebbert-Rose!
We are very thankful to one of our reception parents, Mr Luebbert-Rose, who spoke to us about being a pilot! We learned about how maths, physics, biology, chemistry and psychology are all important when being a pilot. We learned how you train to be one and how you learn to prepare for any emergencies that may happen in flight. We talked about the different people who are involved in getting us in the air as well as different parts of a flight (take off, climb, cruise, descent and landing), height, speed and air pressure!
It prompted some fabulous questions including:
“What happens if it breaks down in the air?”
“How heavy are the planes?”
“Does the plane feel heavy when you fly it?”
“How can you see in the dark if you’re flying in the dark!”
“How many buttons are there in the cockpit?”
“How do you know which button to press?”
Some quotes from the children include:
“I didn’t know that when planes are cruising they can go up to 630mph!” – Harry
“I didn’t know that when you are learning to fly a plane, you have a black screen in front of you when you are flying” Dougie
“I didn’t know where were thousands of buttons in a cockpit!” – Jeremy
“He was quite amazing because it’s really fun to go up in the sky and be control the plane” – Dougie
“He looked very smart in his suit with his tie. I think he would look even smarter with his hat on!” Joshua
“I learned about the simulators on stilts that move and that make you feel like you’re in a plane” – Oliver
“I didn’t know you fly higher than Mount Everest that is 29,000ft! You fly at 40,000ft!” – James
Visitor 2 – Mrs Walker
Another thanks goes to another one of our parents, Mrs Walker who came in to talk to us about Volcanology! We learned all about what is in the centre of the world, the Earth’s crust, magma chambers, lava and how volcanoes are formed. We learned that there are lots of different volcanic gases and that there are different types of volcanoes such as wide plateaus, fissure vents and that they can be also be found on the ocean floor. We then observed a scientific experiment creating eruptions using mentos and three different drinks, have the opportunity to make predictions about which drink would have the most forceful eruption!
Visitor 2 – Science Workshop
On the Friday, the whole school took park in a slime making workshop! They could choose to make either cloud slime or sensory slime and could choose what colour to make it!
Classroom experiments!
Each class also had opportunities to experience the awe and wonder of Science in their individual classes. We had cress growing, dancing raisins, jumping rice crispies (using static electricity), rainbow skittles, droopy plants, germ and bread experiments to name a few!
Competition!
We also held a competition with the theme “Time”. Our budding scientists were all so inventive and entries included posters on time zones, why fruit softens over time, cars and transport now and in the future, a timeline of scientists, sun dials, erupting volcanoes, mechanical clocks, water timers, solar system and The Mesozoic Era! We really enjoyed welcoming parents in to see the amazing contributions. Congratulations to Jaxon who was awarded first price for his poster investigating why fruit goes soft. He even brought in him microscope so that his classmates to observe the changes in the fruit cells themselves.
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Shining Stars of the Week
Mon 18 Mar 2024Congratulations to Amy, Spencer and Rose who are our Shining Stars of the Week. They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.
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Red Nose Day!
Fri 15 Mar 2024The children have had a lovely day today for Red Nose Day, raising money for Comic Relief. They came into school in something red, had a red-themed pizza lunch with watermelon and strawberry lollies and finished off the brilliant Science Week with a Slime workshop from Wild Science.
Thank you for your donations, if anyone would like to make any further donations, please use our parentpay link, where donations go direct to Comic Relief:
https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=13988.
The winners of the joke competition were:
1st Quinn Balham
2nd Finley Luebbert-Rose
3rd Rose Ells
Thank you to all who took part and donated 20p per joke, we loved hearing their jokes!
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Shining Stars of the Week
Mon 11 Mar 2024Congratulations to Vincent, Tommy and William who are our Shining Stars of the Week. They have all been recognised for demonstrating our golden values last week.
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Mothers Day Craft and Cake
Fri 08 Mar 2024We loved welcoming in the mummys and some auntys/grannys for our Mothers Day craft and cake event. We hope you enjoyed spending some time with your child/ren at school and thank you for coming in!
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World Book Day
Thu 07 Mar 2024A huge thank you to Mrs Watkins for organising another brilliant World Book Day. Children were invited to come into school in pyjamas or onesies to celebrate our "Snuggle up and Read" theme.
We were very lucky to have an actor from The Drama Hut come in all morning to give the children storytelling workshops on fairytales. It included some writing, lots of drama, lots of storytelling and lots of fun! A huge thank you to the P&F for funding this exciting morning for the children.
There was also a "Get caught reading!" competition and we received some fantastic entries, including reading up trees and even in a washing machine! Thank you for your support in this competition.
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