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Awards given for super learner, brilliant behaviour and Good Samaritan of year one. There is also a double winner this week who not only has been awarded the star award but also Mrs Robinson's Reader of the week!

Thank you for all your support, the children (and you) have created some exceptional learning logs to support our new topic!

This week the blog of the week is composed by Luke...

This week in numeracy we've been learning how to tell the time. In our books we wrote in 12 hour time and 24 hours .  In literacy we've been looking at narrative writing. Today in maths we wrote the time in words and in 12 hour clock .…

Year 6 & Reception are designing kites ready for our seaside trip. 

This morning, Janet Clarke from Network Rail led a special assembly for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils to alert children to the dangers of playing near railway tracks. She also gave a separate talk to the Reception Class using resources designed specifically for that age group.

This week we have been looking at descriptive writing.  We have deconstructed texts by looking at how the author used all of their senses to describe what the character could see, hear, smell, touch and how they were feeling.

Today we went outside and chose a spot in the playground. We…

Reverend Karsten led our morning worship today in church. 

Leah tried to measure our longest bean - it was tricky because it wasn't straight! With Bailey's good idea to use a strip of paper to follow the curve of the beanpod, we found that our longest bean measured 24.9 cm!

Today some children went out to the Eco Garden with Miss Clegg to harvest the beans we planted there. When they came back what a surprise we all had! Look at Year 3's bumper crop!

Look how proud we are to show our beans!

We would really recommend reading the story Meerkat Mail written by Emily Gravett. Some children even wrote in their reviews that it was the best book ever and that the author and illustrator is very talented! I think we have some very talented book reviewers too.

Year one have been exploring how many star jumps, bunny hops, skips etc that they can complete in one minute to secure the concept of time. Try asking your child how long an activity takes, estimating first before timing it, you'll be amazed by some of their answers!