Reception 13th Sep 2024
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The children have really enjoyed their first week at school. We are learning new routines and how to play cooperatively with each other and exploring our new environment.

Y4 - Art - Shading 12th Sep 2024
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We have been learning how to use shading to create and depth to create 3D images

Year 1 - Maths - Place Value (Within 10) - Number Cities 4th Sep 2024
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We have had a great start to our maths learning. We have been practising counting forwards and backwards. We made some numberblock cities by counting out the cubes we needed. We could then see which number was greater.

Year 2 - DT - Wraps 18th Jul 2024
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Today we made and ate our wraps. We enjoyed our time in the park!

Curly Wurly Championship 2024 with Year 2 17th Jul 2024
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Today was the end of our 'Changing Shape' materials topic. We ended the topic with the Curly Wurly stretch challenge. We knew that a child on Explorify had managed to stretch her Curly Wurly to about 90cm and that the world record was over 400cm!! We had 3 minutes each to stretch the toffee as far as we could. Our results were: Joint 3rd with 123cm Kaylee and Winner. 2nd place was Jane with 126 cm and in 1st place was Nikodem with an impressive 134cm. Well done to everyone who took part.

Year 2 - Textiles - Our finished pouches 12th Jul 2024
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We completed our pouches by planning and decorating our pouches.

Sports day - PE 12th Jul 2024
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Sports day - where we did lots of sporty things and displayed great athleticism and team work!

Year 5 - DT - Cooking day! 7th Jul 2024
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The school was filled with wonderful cooking aromas on our DT day. We adapted a spaghetti bolognaise recipe and produced some rather tasty dishes!

Science: Stretch Investigation 7th Jul 2024
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Year 2 received a letter from the Science Laboratory of Super Heros asking them to work out the best fabric to design a new outfir for Elastagirl. After discussions last week it was time to put their ideas into practice this week by carrying out their investigations. We got some very good results that we will be tabulating this week and sending our reply and answers to the Laboratory

Year 2 - DT - Sewing 5th Jul 2024
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We have been designing and making our own pouches. We cut out a template, pinned it to some felt, cut it out and now we have sewn the two pieces together with a running stitch.

Year 2 - Music - Djembe drumming 5th Jul 2024
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We welcomed Dan into our school to learn about African drumming. We had a wonderful time and learnt to listen to rhythms and play as a group.

Year 2 - DT - Taste testing and skill developing 27th Jun 2024
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Today we practised our cutting and grating skills. We then tasted our ingredients to see which combinations we liked best. Some of us tried some foods for the first time and liked them!

Year 2 - Maths - capacity 27th Jun 2024
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We have been learning how to measure in L and ml

Year 3 - Computing - DT - Digital World - Wearable Technology 25th Jun 2024
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Year 3 have been learning all about wearable technology. We coded the MicroBit devices to light up so people could be seen walking down the road in the dark. We then thought about how we could sell this product and designed point of sale signs to promote our wearable devices.

Year 3 - Branching Databases 25th Jun 2024
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Year 3 have been learning all about branching databases. We made our own branching database, thinking carefully about how to ensure our questions were appropriate to sort the objects.

Year 5 - P.E. - Orienteering 24th Jun 2024
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Making the most of the lovely weather and our wonderful field to practice orienteering and team-working skills - can we give and follow instructions?!

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Structures - Windmills 17th Jun 2024
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We have been learning all about windmills in DT. We talked about our local windmill, Bocking Windmill and learned a bit about its history. We then started to learn some new words, such as rotor, sails and base. We designed our own windmills and learned that to make a structure more stable, it needs to have a wide base. We also learned that if you add weight to the base, it also makes it more stable. We can't wait to make our sails next!

Year 1 - Science - Working Scientifically - Ants! 10th Jun 2024
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We have been learning about what scientists do. We learned that they ask questions about the world, observe closely and investigate to find answers. Our lovely ant friends helped us with practising these skills. We observed them closely, asked questions about them and carried out investigations to see if we could answer our questions.

Year 2 - PE - Sports day preparations 7th Jun 2024
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In PE we have created our very own obstacle race course. It was very challenging and we needed to listen carefully to what we had to do.

Year 2 - Maths - position and direction 7th Jun 2024
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In maths we are learning about positional language. We went outside and in groups we gave each other instructions on how to move to different points on the 'map'

Year 2 - DT - Textiles 7th Jun 2024
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We have started our textiles project by learning how to thread a needle, tie a knot and then use a running stitch

Year 1 - Science / Art - Plants - Trees 5th Jun 2024
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We have been learning all about plants. We have spent a lot of time outside finding common wild and garden plants. We have also been learning about trees. We learned the words deciduous and evergreen and what they meant. We have been looking at the leaves and the bark of trees to help us identify them. We had a lovely calm time drawing some trees on the field, making sure we could identify the trunk, branches and leaves.

Year 1 - Maths - Money 5th Jun 2024
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We have been learning all about money!

Penpals 4th Jun 2024
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We were very excited to open our replies from our penpals. We are writing to Miss Harmer's sister's class in Erith London. We will be writing our replies over the next few days.

Mindfulness 3rd Jun 2024
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What a wonderful start to the half term. Year 2 took part in a mindfulness session where we found our superpower of relaxing breathing. We used controlled breathing to calm our thoughts and found out that we could use the technique to help us to calm down when we were feeling cross or not focussed. Our class favourite breathing was the hand breathing.

Year 5 - History / English - World War 2 diaoramas 24th May 2024
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A selection of our student's WW2 dioramas!

Theatre Visit for Year 2 and Reception 22nd May 2024
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On Wednesday Year 2 and Reception were treated to a captivating performance of 'Asha and the Troll' by the talented actors of Matipo CIC. The story, focusing on friendship, empathy, and celebrating differences, was brought to life through the art of puppetry, percussion, mime and …trolls. The children were mesmerised by the magical tale that unfolded before their eyes. It was a joy watching the children’s faces and hearing all the giggles, oohs and aaahs.

Daisy May's Farm Trip 22nd May 2024
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The children had a lovely trip despite the weather, they got to feed the lambs, hold a chick and some rabbits and pet the goats.

Year 2 - Art - Clay house tiles 17th May 2024
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We have designed and made our clay tile houses. We used all the skills we have learnt across the half term to design and make our final pieces. Can you spot the techniques we have used?

Year 2 - PE - Tennis 17th May 2024
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This half term we have been developing our tennis skills. Wimbledon here we come!

Year 3 - Art - Abstract 3d structural shapes 17th May 2024
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Year 3 have begun exploring abstract sculpture. Our first session focused on using cardboard 2d shapes to create 3d abstract sculptures of playground equipment.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Cooking & Nutrition - Making Fruit Salad! 16th May 2024
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We used our recipe designs to make our fruit salads. We learned about food hygiene, which colour board we should use to cut fruit on and how to cut safely using a knife and fork.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Cooking & Nutrition - Tasting, Design Brief & Recipe Design 15th May 2024
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We thought carefully about our design brief and looked at existing products to see if that could help our ideas. We then tasted a range of fruits and decided which we thought would work best in our fruit salad recipe. Everyone was amazing and tried lots of new things!

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Cooking & Nutrition - Trip To Tesco! 14th May 2024
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We were extremely excited to walk to Tesco to buy all the ingredients we needed for our fruit salad! Everyone behaved really well and we saw so many amazing things on our walk - including a fish shaped puddle! The workers at Tesco were very kind and gave us some free fruit to eat!

Year 5 - Art - Architecture (sketching/block printing) 8th May 2024
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This term we are looking at architecture and the first couple of lessons saw us creating observational drawings of the houses the other side of our field! We made the most of some good weather! Then using a frame we adapted and enlarged a part of our sketch to create a block print. As you can see from the photos, the concentration was palpable!

Reception - Art - Collage 7th May 2024
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The children made collages using mixed media and used loose parts to make transient art

Year 2 - English -Penpal Letters 7th May 2024
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Today we read our letters from Miss Harmer's class at Lessness Heath School in London. (Miss Harmer's sister) We were really excited and keen to read all about Magpie Class' work and what they had being doing over the last term. We have started to write our replies.

Year 5 - French - quelle matière préfères-tu ? 3rd May 2024
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This the question that year 5 have been asking themselves in French this week. See the newsletter for our answers!

Year 1 - Art & Design - Sculptures - Tree Of Life Inspired Final Pieces 3rd May 2024
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The children explored the many ways in which artists have represented the idea of a 'tree of life'. We used this idea to explore our own ideas about how we could base a sculpture on this idea. The children used all they had learned during this unit of work to create their own sculptures.

Year 2 - ICT - Digital music 2nd May 2024
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We created our own compositions using Chrome music lab

Year 1 - Design & Technology / Science - Cooking & Nutrition - Fruit or Non-Fruit? 1st May 2024
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To begin our unit of learning, the children learned that edible parts of plants are called vegetables. We learned that if the edible part has a seed, it is also a fruit. We used this new learning to look at different edible plants and decided if they were fruits or non-fruits. We then looked at where on the plant vegetables and fruits grow. We deduced that fruits always grow above ground. This also linked nicely with our learning in science about parts of plants. We loved thinking that we could eat every part of different plants!

Reception - Art - Musical Painting 30th Apr 2024
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The children listened to different types of music and thought about how it made them feel, we then talked about the possible colours they could use. The children looked at different strokes they could make according to the rhythm or beat, slow, fast. They then used paints to express themselves while listening to a piece of music.

Year 2 - Art - Clay pinch pots 26th Apr 2024
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We have been practising our pottery skills. We have learnt how to use the 'score and slip' method to attach pieces of clay together.

Reception - Art - Outdoor Painting 26th Apr 2024
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The children collected natural materials to make a paintbrush, we then had a go at mixing up different consistencies of mud to do some mud painting. Some children then want on to make mud sculptures.

Green Fingers In Year 2 24th Apr 2024
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Today we set up our plastic bag green houses and began our journey of growing Broad Bean. First of all we talked about why seeds are important. We used the book ‘Christopher Nibble’ by Charlotte Middleton which is about a guinea pig and his friends and family who eat too many dandelions and end up having to eat chewy cabbage as the dandelions run out. Christopher saves the day by looking after the seeds from the one plant that is left and growing many dandelions from them.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Sculpture - Paper Sculptures 24th Apr 2024
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Following on from our lesson on cylinders, we learned how to make different 3D shapes using paper and card to create sculptures. We made spirals, tables, rainbows, zig zags and loops. We then used what we had learned to create our own sculptures. We then had a gallery exhibition of our creations!

Reception - Design Technology - Structures - Boats 17th Apr 2024
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The children have been learning about 'boats'. We first had to experiment with different materials which we could use to make a boat, then we had to test to see if they were water proof and whether these materials would float or sink, then we looked at the structure and designs of boats before designing and making our own boats.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Sculptures - Cylinders 17th Apr 2024
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The children were introduced to 3D art and we learned that it was called sculpture. The children had a go at creating their own paper sculptures using different kinds of cylinders.

Year 1 - Geography / Science - What Is The Weather Like Where I Live? 15th Apr 2024
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Year 1 have been learning all about the UK and the typical weather that we have in different seasons. We applied all of our knowledge so far and created weather reports for each other! We made our own maps, labelling the countries. We then described the weather in different parts of the UK and even tried to use our new knowledge of North, South, East and West! It was great fun. Watch out Carol Kirkwood!