Welcome Back!

8th January 2025Mr Pickering

It has been brilliant to see all of the children back after the break. They are all energised and excited to get into our new Expedition. This term, we are asking ourselves ‘How can I be the healthiest version of me?’ 2P started by exploring our new English text ‘Supertato’. We used inference skills to predict what the story might be about. We then read the story and created our own superhero masks. In Expedition, we learnt a performance song all about bananas. The video is below for you to enjoy! We can’t wait to do our Bushtucker trial later in the week!

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Toddler Visit

8th January 2025Joshua Meade

Today, we had the cutest visitor ever! Our children loved comparing and learning the difference between a baby and a toddler. They asked some fab questions to find out what our toddler Gracie can and can’t do. Thank you to Beth and Gracie, you brought so much joy to everyone in EYFS this morning! #LovePlover

We are building our art techniques in 6B

8th January 2025Miss Blackham

6B have inspired by the artist ‘Giulio Campagnola’ who invented the stippling technique to improve his variations of tone. The children have applied stippling to their sketches of Ben Parkinson. I can’t wait to see their final drafts!

-Miss Blackham

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Baby Visit

8th January 2025Joshua Meade

It was lovely having our special visitor yesterday! The children were in awe at Baby Yaya and asked some brilliant questions about what a baby needs. #LovePlover

Hooking LKS2 into What makes us human?

6th January 2025Mrs Graves

Happy New Year!

We have had a great start to our new expedition – “The Power of Life – what makes us human?”

It was great to see all costumes in the “dress-up as a robot’, especially all the time and effort that had gone into the outfits.

We spent the morning in our crews in mini workshops to give us a flavour of some of the learning we are going to be doing this term. Children had to workout the guiding question using clues given at the end of each workshop.

Children enjoyed exploring the internal organs, skeleton and muscles using AI and interactive games. They had a go at classifying robots, made electronic circuits, created robots and had fun with jigsaws.

As reward for solving the puzzle and in preparation for Friday’s learning, we spent the afternoon watching the film Robots.

Mrs Graves and Miss Vine

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We are problem solvers!

6th January 2025Mrs Haycock

Years 3 and 4 have worked with each of the six crew leads today to carry out a range of activities that link to our new learning. If successful, they were given a word from the crew leader. Then they had to shuffle these words around so they made sense as a title and question. We finally worked it out…

The power of life: What makes us human?

Well done to everyone who managed to complete Mrs Haycock’s challenge of beat the buzzer. Everyone successfully built their wire buzzer (or in our case light) game! Extra shout out to the 6 children who managed to complete the game without setting the buzzer off.

I hope you all had fun in my session guys; I know I had lots of fun and that I am very proud of you all!

Mrs Haycock

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Are we human or are we robots?

6th January 2025Mrs Haycock

Years 3 and 4 had an exciting hook day today for their new expedition. Many dressed up as robots and the effort from those who made their own costumes was exceptional! Well done and thank you parents who I’m sure would have lent a helping hand with these!

Mrs Haycock

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Supertato!

6th January 2025Mrs Lewis

In 2L the children loved solving the mystery of what our new text is going to be in English. The children, completed jigsaws and matching activities before they put their inference skills to the test. The children used the front cover of the book and tried to work out who the book might be about, where it was set and what the story might be about. The children enjoyed listening to the story before they made their own superhero masks.

We are artists!

6th January 2025Miss Blackham

We have kick started hook week in Year 6 and began working as artists. The children have started their first drafts today of their final product- a mural of Ben Parkinson. The children will be developing their art skills over the course of this week, using various techniques and being inspired by experts and artists.

Keep an eye on our blogs to see what we get up to!

-Miss Blackham

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