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22 June 2018

And the rehearsals start...

This week, year 5 and year 6 have started rehearsing for our end of year play. This year we will be performing 'Shakespeare Rocks' which is a comedy about William Shakespeare set in the Elizabethan era. A letter will be coming out soon for parents to purchase tickets so watch this…

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21 June 2018

Twitter

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter! 

This is another source of information about our school. 

We currently have 58 followers. All people who follow us and comment are carefully monitored by the admin team at school.

Go and take a look!

 

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21 June 2018

Virtual Competition Champions!

Mrs Smith has been in each class over the past few weeks as children took part in the Southlands Virtual Competition. Each class completes four different challenges and each time a challenge is completed, points are gained.

A total score is calculated and this is then compared to other schools…

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15 June 2018

Bow and Arrow Challenge in Year Two

This week, Year Two set themselves a Challenge to design and make a bow and arrow, as part of our 'Castles' topic from last half term. They searched for the materials outside and then, as a team, decided how to make it and what colour to paint it. The children asked and answered lots of questions…

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15 June 2018

Science in Year 4

This week, we have started our new topic in Science called 'Living Things and their Habitats'. 

To start our topic, we did a worm charming activity to find as many worms as we could. Well done to the winning team who found four worms. 

Next week, we will be looking at different habitats…

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15 June 2018

Outdoor Maths

In Year 3 this week, we have been learning about angles. On Thursday, despite the very windy conditions, the children completed a range of angle challenges outside. They had to write down the route from the start of the cones to the end using the vocabulary; forward, 90 degrees, clockwise and…

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15 June 2018

Reception Class meet Katie from the Farm

This week, Reception Class really enjoyed their visit from Katie, from Countryside Classrooms. Katie spoke to the children about all the things that happen on the farm in each of the four seasons. The children were able to see photographs of the newborn lambs and also the sheepdogs who work on the…

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15 June 2018

The Earth

This week in geography, the children have been looking at how the Earth is made up.  They made a model of the different layers using plasticine.

 

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15 June 2018

Headteacher's Award

Well done Alissa!

You have a super attitude to learning and always make me smile.

 

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14 June 2018

Bring On The World Cup!!!

Today, we started our new topic on the World Cup. Each child has picked a team to support throughout the sporting event and we have located all 32 countries competing using an atlas.  The children were given the task to research the World Cup and with some fantastic prelearning facts and…

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14 June 2018

Year Two Countryside Classroom

Today we had a visit from Katie from 'Countryside Classroom' who talked to the children about life on a farm. The children were all engaged and asked lots of questions.

 

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14 June 2018

Countryside Classroom

We had a special visitor to our class this afternoon.  Our visitor was from the 'Countryside Classroom' and she told us all about farming and why farms are important to us.  The children listened carefully and asked lots of amazing questions and certainly found out lots of new facts about…

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