Starting School

How grown up do some of our new 30 hour nursery children look in their uniforms?! They have all settled in beautifully and done so well at following our school routines. I’m so excited for the year ahead!

Mrs Williams

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3G’s ‘Eggcellent’ compassion day

Today’s character trait has been ‘compassion’.

As part of the day, we have shown compassion to our ‘Baby Eggs’, who needed clothing, shelter and care – we had great fun using our imagination to create them.

Then it was the colour run in aid of our school and chosen charity the RSPCA (that we learnt about yesterday). Despite a few early drops of rain, we had great fun turning ourselves into colourful rainbows!!

Mrs Graves

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2P have courage!

Yesterday’s character trait that we learnt about was courage. We discussed how we need courage when we are challenged with things that can make us feel uncomfortable. We learnt this by dancing in the cheerleading style. This was very challenging for some of us (including me!) but we all showed bravery and courage and gave it a good go. We now need to practise our routine a few more times before we perform it in front of the rest of the Key Stage. The final act of courage!

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Team building in Crew Lewis

Today our new crew took part in a fun and challenging team-building activity designed to get everyone working together. The task sounded simple: build the tallest tower you can… using only your shoes!

At first, there were puzzled faces and lots of laughter. How could we possibly turn our shoes into a tower? But with some creative thinking, clever balancing, and plenty of cooperation, we began stacking, leaning, and problem-solving their way to success.

It wasn’t just about the tallest tower—it was about communication, and teamwork. The children quickly learned that listening to each other’s ideas was the key to keeping the tower standing. Others discovered that patience and persistence were just as important as speed.

Well done to everyone for showing such fantastic collaboration and creativity—our crew is off to a brilliant start!

Mrs Lewis

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Showing compassion in Year 5 & 6

Yesterday, we kick started our first week back and looked at the character trait ‘compassion’. We looked at what it means to be compassionate and show compassion and then we left school to engage in acts of service with our local care home. Some of our children played board games with the residents and they all had so much fun. The children learnt a lot from the residents such as how to play a range of card games and how to play dominoes. We are so proud of the relationships we are building with this care home and we hope to build on this throughout the year.

In a world where you can be anything, always be kind.

-Miss Blackham

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2P are back!

It was great to see everyone back in school today and looking so smart! This week, we are learning how to be great learners. We are doing this by focusing on a different character trait every day. We learnt about ‘Respect’ today. We unpicked what the word meant and how it might look if we are being respectful. We learnt that written and unwritten rules are important in helping us to know that we are always being respectful to each other. Together, we created a set of class norms that will help us remember how we can show respect. A great first day back! I wonder which character trait we will focus on tomorrow?

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We have courage

It was great to see everyone back at school yesterday, looking so smart and eager to begin Year 5. On our first day the children were learning about our Character Trait of courage. We thought about times we showed courage and about how we would show courage at school this year.

Mrs Lewis
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First day back in 4B!

We have had an amazing first day back in 4B. We have learnt all about our character trait courage and how we can demonstrate that in school.

The children have shown great courage in a serious of activities including interacting with some creep crawlies: Charlie the spider, Humphrey the snake and cinnamon and liquorice the millipedes. Although many were nervous at first, all have shown great courage to face their fears and push themselves out of their comfort zone and should be very proud of themselves.

They also worked as a team to successfully complete some outdoor challenges to collect the gems of courage.

Overall, a fantastic, active start to the week!