Year 4 - Music - Yu Studio 23rd May 2025
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We have become music techinicians by learning how to compose to a video using the amazing YuStudio.

Year 4 - Art - 3D chalk drawings 23rd May 2025
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In art we have been looking at using our drawing skills to create 3D images using chalk. We had the inspiration of the Kenyan artist Madelene Odundo and her clay art.

Year 4 - Art - Soap carving 23rd May 2025
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We have learnt about Barbara Hepburn and how she sculpted abstract pieces out of different materials. We had a go at our own sculptures using soap and a variety of tools.

Year 5 - P.E. - Orienteering 20th May 2025
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Making the most of the sunshine and our wonderful field to practice orienteering and team-working skills. It might look as though we were stationary but there was a serious amount of thinking involved!

Y2 The Wilderness Project 20th May 2025
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20th May

Year 4 - Geography - Earthquakes 9th May 2025
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We have been learning about earthquakes in New Zealand and have studied how they occur. It's really fascinating!

Year 4 - History - Colchester Castle 9th May 2025
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Year 4 visited Colchester Castle to find out more about the Romans. They had a fantastic day out and learnt so much!

Y2 Maths Measuring in litres. 1st May 2025
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1st May

Year 5 - Geography - Field Trip to Daws Hall 1st Apr 2025
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Our Geography river topic focussed field trip in the wonderful Suffolk countryside!

Year 4 - Music - Rock Steady 27th Mar 2025
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We were super lucky to have an assembly and workshop with Millie from Rock Steady. We learnt about what makes up a rock and pop band and we are now able to sign up to our own music lessons to play the instruments and make up a band!

Year 4 - DT - Digital moments 27th Mar 2025
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We have begun to use our coding skills to create a mindfulness timer. We will design the packaging and then create a product that will promote mindful moments.

Year 5 - R.E. - Conscience Alley - The motives of Judas - Misguided or betrayer? 26th Mar 2025
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In our Lenten lessons we have been looking at the motives of Judas - Was he misguided, jealous, weak or something else? The class made a diamond nine of possible motives. There was lots of discussion!

Year 4 - PE - Javelin 21st Mar 2025
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We managed to utilise the moment of sunshine we had to go out have a go at honing our javelin skills. It was good fun and we learned a lot about javelin technique.

Year 5 - Geography - Investigating maps 21st Mar 2025
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As part of our geography curriculum we love a map investigation. For our Fairtrade unit we are looking at the port of Southampton and how it has been developed to accommodate huge container vessels.

Y2 Maths 20th Mar 2025
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Y2 are revisiting numbers 1-20, counting to 100 by making tens, adding 10s and 1s, measuring in cm,

Y2 Computing 14th Mar 2025
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(14th & 19th March) We are exploring algorithms and programming using the Beebots.

Reception - Literacy - World Book Day 11th Mar 2025
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The children loved dressing up and taking part in our World Book Day Celebrations

Reception - Art -Finger Painting 11th Mar 2025
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The children have been exploring different paint techniques. The children have enjoyed using their fingers to mix, spread and manipulate the paints in different ways.

Y2 DT 10th Mar 2025
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Y2 are refining their food preparation skills.

Year 4 - World Book Day 6th Mar 2025
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This year Year 4 took part in two live lesson with the Premier League Primary stars and CBBC Big Read. We completed a quiz on books and football. We loved dressing up in our favourite book characters.

Reception - RE - Shrove Tuesday 5th Mar 2025
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The children had great fun learning about 'Shrove Tuesday' and carrying out some fun activities.

Year 4 - PE - Indoor athletics 27th Feb 2025
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We have finished our block on indoor athletics. We learned how to hurdle, jump, balance and throw and earn our teams points.

Reception - Mathematics = Mass and Capacity 6th Feb 2025
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Exploring mass, using scales and exploring capacity using containers

Reception - History - Museum Trip 6th Feb 2025
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The children loved looking around the Toy exhibition at the Museum in Braintree. We got to play with and explore loads of toys and games both old and new.

Reception- Science - Three Little pigs 6th Feb 2025
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The children have loved our topic of 'The Three Little Pigs. We have done lots of tests, explored and investigated and were even engineers. We have made kites and explored the ways the wind changes directions and was able to 'blow' the different houses down in the story. We then had a go at designing and making our own houses and used a hairdryer to see if they would actually 'blow' down.

Reception - RE - Celebrations - Chinese New Year 4th Feb 2025
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The children have been learning about Chinese New year and how they celebrate. We had Chinese food during lunch time and then the children had a tea party and tried to use some chop sticks.

Year 5 - Science - Ice Ice Baby! 31st Jan 2025
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The Year 5 Science curriculum includes watching change over time, predicting, observing patterns and recording. So we decided to investigate whether our choice of materials would insulate an ice cube!

Year 4 - Music - Recorders 30th Jan 2025
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We have been learning how to play the recorder!

Year 4 - Art - Different brush techniques 30th Jan 2025
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We have been trying out different brush techniques and even using sponges and cotton buds to explore different textures.

Year 3 - Science - Identifying rocks 24th Jan 2025
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Year 3 - DT - Cooking vegetable tarts 23rd Jan 2025
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Year 5 - English - Performing 'The HIghwayman' by Alfred Noyes 22nd Jan 2025
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Our English lessons this term include an in-depth look at the poem, 'The HIghwayman' - Dramatic recital has been the focus this week and Year 6 were our audience!

Year 4 - Art - Tinting and shading 15th Jan 2025
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In art we are experimenting with colouring mixing. We experimented with making colours lighter and darker by adding black and white paint.

Sorting toys into 'old' and 'new' 14th Jan 2025
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The children have been looking at 'Toys' . We explored different toys and they all brought in pictures of their favourite toys. The children then looked at toys in the past and present and we sorted into 'old' and 'new'

Year 1 - Maths - Place Value Within 20 14th Jan 2025
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We have been exploring the numbers between 11-20. We have been using the language of 'ten and how many more'. We have been learning how to read numbers - using our knowledge of the tens and ones columns.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Colour Mixing 14th Jan 2025
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Having learned about mixing primary colours to create secondary colours, we had a go at mixing different amounts of the primary colours to make different shades of the secondary ones.

Year 1 - English - Writing - Nouns 10th Jan 2025
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We have been learning about different word classes and have been learning about common and proper nouns. We did a great job of sorting the words out.

Year 1 - Art & Design - Painting - Primary Colours 8th Jan 2025
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We learned about the primary colours and how to mix them to make the three secondary colours. We started exploring this idea of colour mixing in our sketch books. We loved being creative!

Year 1 - Writing - Melting Snowpeople 16th Dec 2024
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We have been working hard on our handwriting, oral sentence construction and sentence writing. We had great fun thinking of ways a snowperson may melt!

Year 4 - DT - Pavilions completed 13th Dec 2024
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We finished our pavilions! Don't they look fantastic?

Year 4 - Science - Bug hunt 12th Dec 2024
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As part of our topic of classifying, we thought we'd see how many 'bugs' we could see during the winter months. In spring we will complete another one and compare.

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Final Pieces 11th Dec 2024
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Year 1 used what we have been learning about sliders, moving parts and guides to design and make our own Christmas cards. The children had to follow a design brief. They did such a great job and could talk confidently about their designs. There were also some very impressive evaluations, where we reflected on the whole process.

Year 5 - R.E. - Class Worship 6th Dec 2024
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Year 5 are responsible for a weekly class worship - they usually work in pairs and focus on a specific aspect, finding a reading and reflection to work together. They then lead the class worship. This week's leaders chose the theme 'Resonsibility' with some lovely reflection music and a joyful John Burland song to finish..

Year 1 - Design & Technology - Moving Pictures - Skills Focus 5th Dec 2024
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We have been learning how to make moving pictures. We needed to practise making holes in paper and cutting a line between our holes.

Reception - Mathematics 2nd Dec 2024
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The children have been learning the compositions of 5 in different ways by sharing 5 buttons between 2 bears and , then putting some frogs in the pond and some outside; then working out how many altogetherrs

Year 5 - P.E. - Gymnastic-tastic 2nd Dec 2024
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As you will have seen from the St. Francis Flyer, our gymnastics sessions this term have focussed on creating shapes with balance, symmetry, cannon and unison. We have then been working together to create sequences to perform to the rest of the class.

Year 1 - Geography - Local Area And Maps / Aerial Photographs 2nd Dec 2024
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In geography, we have been learning about how geographers look at the world. We have been learning the names of the four nations of the U.K., the names of the continents and starting to learn the capital cities. We have also been looking at aerial photographs of our local area and looking at maps.

Year 4 - DT - Pavilions 2 28th Nov 2024
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Now we have begun to clad our pavilions

Year 4 - DT - Pavilions 1 28th Nov 2024
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We have begun to create our structures.