Year 4 - Science - Investigating switches in circuits 7th May 2026
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Our science investigation, building on earlier investigations so see how we could incorporate a switch into a circuit - problem solving and using experts in the class!

Year 2 - RE - Praying the Rosary 1st May 2026
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Now that we are in May, we focus on Our Lady. We looked at what the Rosary is and how we pray a 'decade'. We looked at our statue of Mary in the Peace Garden and we used the stones to pray with our class rosaries.

Year 4 - DT- Programming Microbits 1st May 2026
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For our DT unit we are designing a mindfulness timer, part of that is being able to program the microbit to be able to countdown for a certain amount of time.

Year 2 - DT - Baby Bear's chair 25th Mar 2026
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In DT we have been researching how structures can be made strong and stable. We made a chair that would fit baby bear and we had some interesting results!

Year 1 - Geography - Local Area Land Use 24th Mar 2026
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We have been looking at aerial photographs and maps of the local area around the school. We looked at the different land uses and decided that most of the land around the school is used for residential properties. We then went on a fieldwork walk around the school to look at the land use in the local area. We decided that it was mainly residential, with some economic businesses closeby.

Year 1 - World Down Syndrome Day 21st March 2026 20th Mar 2026
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We all grow differently, just like a sunflower! Year 1 are very lucky to have so many different children in the class and we know that everyone is special and it is ok to be different. We made sunflowers as they all grow differently. We also planted a sunflower seed each and took them home to care for. We will watch our class ones carefully. We also gifted Year 5 with a sunflower seed to watch grow too.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Food & Nutrition - Fruit Pots - Making 18th Mar 2026
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Year 1 made their fruit pots. They watched carefully how to use a knife and fork in a safe way to chop their fruit into bite-sized pieces. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed tasting our pots afterwards!

Year 1 - RE - Branch 4 - Desert To Garden - Holy Week 18th Mar 2026
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Year 1 have been learning about the events of Holy Week, leading up to Easter. We have made some wonderful reflections and made some story spinners to help us retell the events of this special week.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Food & Nutrition - Fruit Pots - Tasting & Recipe Design 17th Mar 2026
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We have been given the design brief to design and make a fruit pot to sell at the Summer Fair. The children have looked at current products already on sale and designed some packaging. Today, the children tasted different fruits and decided if they would work well together in their pot. They then designed their final recipe for the fruit pots that they will make later in the week.

Year 4 - Computing - Code it Gold - loops! 16th Mar 2026
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This term we are looking at loops in coding, from thinking about everyday loops in real life to writing progam loops.

Year 1 - Maths - Measure - Length & Height 16th Mar 2026
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We have been learning about non-standard and standard measures. The children have been practising how to measure accurately. They have been doing really well learning how to use a ruler.

Year 1 - Science - Animals (Including Humans) - Grouping Animals 12th Mar 2026
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We have started to learn about the different ways scientists can sort animals. We had a go sorting some animals ourselves. Ideas were number of legs, how they move, where they live. We then looked at animals that were wild or animals that could be pets. We have now started looking at mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians.

Year 4 - Art - Sculpture 5th Mar 2026
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For World Book Day we used clay to create mythical beasts from literature!

Year 1 - Computing - Digital Painting - Portraits 2nd Mar 2026
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Year 1 have been working so hard to be able to log onto the ChromeBooks independently, to be able to use the trackpad and to be able to find work on Google Classroom. We are now learning more about how to paint digitally. Everyone tested out the different tools by drawing a portrait of themselves!

Year 1 - Maths - Place Value Within 50 2nd Mar 2026
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We have been looking at numbers to 50 and trying to apply what we have learned with smaller numbers to these bigger numbers. We are getting really good at building numbers to 50 with tens and ones.

Year 1 - Maths - Place Value To 50 - Related Facts 27th Feb 2026
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Year 1 have been amazing at finding the fact families for different bar models and pictorial images. Today, we did some reasoning and problem solving to decide which facts matched which image.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Printing 10th Feb 2026
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We uses objects around the classroom to print!

Reception- DT- Making a Three Pigs House 10th Feb 2026
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The children have been trying out their sawing skills to build their own homes for 'The Three Little Pigs' House, using a variety of materials.

Reception - Mathematics - This term's activities 10th Feb 2026
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This term the children have been working on a number of mathematical concepts; adding one more, one less and doubling numbers to 10

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Clarice Cliff Plates 3rd Feb 2026
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We have been learning about colour mixing, cool and warm colours and using thick paint in art (impasto). The children used all of their learning to paint some Clarice Cliff inspired plates!

Year 4 - Computing - 3D Modelling 28th Jan 2026
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This term we are using TinkerCAD design to create a desk tidy

Year 4 - Art - Sculpture 28th Jan 2026
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Year 4's sculpture topic has included creating organic chalk shapes in the style of Barbara Hepworth, translating these into soap carvings and for today's offering we tried our hand at wire sculpture.

Year 1 - Maths - Numbers To 20 - Ordering Numbers 21st Jan 2026
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The children have been comparing and ordering numbers to 20.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Numbers 20th Jan 2026
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Using the painting, Numbers, as inspiration, the children created their own paintings.

Year 1 - English - Subject & Verbs 19th Jan 2026
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We have been learning about the subjects and verbs in a sentence. This will help us when we write our own sentences. The children read some simple sentences and underlined the subjects, the verbs and any 'leftovers'.

Year 1 - Maths - Numbers To 20 - Problem Solving & Reasoning 16th Jan 2026
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Miss Clapp gave the children a challenge. The robot factory doors are 20 units tall. The children had to see how many robots they could build that were lower than this so the robots could fit through. The children did a great job and some could quickly tell Miss Clapp the tallest and smallest robot possible by adding the greatest and smallest numbers. Well done, everyone!

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Colour Mixing 13th Jan 2026
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The children practised mixing different shades of secondary colours.

Year 1 - Maths - Numbers To 20 - Teen Numbers 12th Jan 2026
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We have been investigating teen numbers. The children can build each number from 11-20 with base 10 equipment.

Year 1 - PE - Circuits 12th Jan 2026
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We have been learning about circuit training in PE. The children have learned about how we can balance. We tried to balance a beanbag on different parts of our bodies and then tried to balance on a beam. Some of us challenged ourselves by walking sideways or even backwards!

Year 2 - RE - John the Baptist 9th Jan 2026
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In RE we have been learning about John the Baptist and how he chose to live his life. We also learnt about the Baptism of Jesus and how John had the important job of Baptising him in the River Jordan.

Year 1 - English - Verbs 8th Jan 2026
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We have been learning all about verbs. We have been looking at action, having and being verbs. The children read sentences and tried to identify which type of verb was in that sentence. This will help us when we write our own sentences.

Reeption-Science- Winter 7th Jan 2026
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The childen had so much fun exploring our outdoor area after it had snowed. We made slush puppuies ans snow cones, exploring how the water changed into different forms

Science - Reception - Investigating materials 7th Jan 2026
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The children were given a challenge to find out which materials woud be most suitable for making an umbrella. We tested different materials to see which ones were waterproof.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Colour Mixing 6th Jan 2026
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We reminded ourselves of how to use primary colours to mix secondary colours. We also began learning how to control the paints so we don't end up with just brown. Some of us found this harder than others.

Year 1 - PE - Circuits 5th Jan 2026
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We have begun our unit on 'circuit training'. The children learned how to go around and over an obstacle.

Year 4 - Science - Festive science: Soundproofing Santa's boots! 17th Dec 2025
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Our challenge, to find a suitable material which could muffle the sound of Santa's boots so that he can sneak more effectively on Christmas Eve when dropping presents!. We downloaded a very sesitive decibel meter app to help record the quietest!

Year 1 - Science - Materials - Festive Science 17th Dec 2025
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Ms Chapman asked every class to take part in a festive science investigation! Our investigation was about materials. We decided to ask the question, 'Which size star will open the quickest?' The children then worked scientifically to answer this question. There was lots of careful observing and measuring going on!

Year 1 - Mathematics - Geometry - Shapes - Grouping & Patterns 16th Dec 2025
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We have been learning names of common 2d and 3d shapes. We have thought of ways we can group them and how we can make patterns with them. We have investigated properties by seeing which shapes roll, stack and slide.

Year 4 - DT - slingshot car 15th Dec 2025
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This has been an ambitious project where Year 4 have needed to create a chassis and design and create a net for their cars. We are hoping to test in the last week of term! As you can see, the cars were completed, class experts helped their classmates and we tested them!

Year 4 - R.E - Advent Class Worship 15th Dec 2025
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Our Class worship sessions in Advent - a lovely focus for our first one in Advent on Love for Enemies from the Gospel of Matthew, with our illuminated Jesse Tree in the foreground.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Final Pieces 15th Dec 2025
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The children used all of their learning throughout this unit to independently make their own moving picture Christmas cards. They designed their cards according to a design brief and then made it, choosing from the available materials. They then evaluated their designs.

Year 5 - DT - Textiles Christmas decorations 12th Dec 2025
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Year 5 have been busy sewing their very own Christmas tree decorations!

Year 1 - Computing - Moving Robots - Routes 8th Dec 2025
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In our final lesson of this unit of learning, Year 1 have learned that they can write more than one algorithm to complete the same job. Each pair, wrote their own algorithm to go from one place on the mat to another. They then tested these out, debugged them as necessary and then decided which of their algorithms was the most efficient.

Year 1 - RE - Branch 2 - Celebrating Christmas Around The World 8th Dec 2025
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Year 1 were very lucky to have Mrs Daynes come and tell us about a Polish Christmas. We then looked at some other traditions from around the world. We looked at the Advent Wreath and how different places around the world get ready for Jesus.

Year 4 - Geography - Earthquakes! 8th Dec 2025
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Our topic for this half term has been a seismic activity! To sum up our understanding the class have created a double-page poster spread all about earthquakes!

Year 1 - RE - Branch 2 - Mary & The Hail Mary 5th Dec 2025
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Year 1 have been looking at the very special Hail Mary prayer. We have been making sure we know the words and discovering where those words come from in the Bible. The children have been putting actions to the words. The children made some flowers for Mary and we said the Hail Mary prayer as we presented them to her statue.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Moving Story Book 5th Dec 2025
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We designed and made a moving picture book for the rhyme, Humpty Dumpty. The children decided where they wanted their characters to move and chose which slits they would need to create an up / down or side-to-side motion.

Year 1 - RE - Branch 2 - Honouring Mary Around The World 4th Dec 2025
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We have been looking at how Mary is honoured around the world through art and music. The children decided to make their own artistic pieces, using parts of the Hail Mary.