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Today the children used their senses to identify the Giants favourite flavour of crisp which of course was beef ... He's a carnivore after all!

Super find girls. These two girls recognised that their reading book linked to today's learning and they shared it with the class!

Welcome to our working week! Monday morning assembly is always a good time to get everyone together and remind them what St Stephen's is all about and the part that EVERYONE has to play as we look forward to another busy week. The children look very smart - thank you - if you can't see YOUR dear…

...you've guessed it from the picture! Of course it's Jack and the Beanstalk!

An amazing effort from Jack this week with his reading in and out of school. Keep up the monster effort decoding your words carefully and enjoying your reading! 

Please check your child's book bag tonight you should find our weekly newsletter, updates and support about your child's phonic development in preparation for the phonic screen ( refresher info available on Year 1 main page), results of number word spelling test, additional new spellings ( for…

During continuous provision we really developed our independent printing skills.

We love sharing our birthdays. We choose friends to decorate cakes and the birthday boy or girl chooses the decorations. Today the birthday boy wanted to create a new colour of icing he mixed blue, green and red. It turned out a strange blue colour!!

Always a great way to end the week - lunch with the Star Award winners. It's been a pretty intensive week and the children (and staff) all deserve a weekend break. Enjoy!

We made something to remind us of what happened on Ascension Day.

We thought about traffic lights to try to remember the instructions Jesus gave to his disciples as He went back to Heaven:        

(Red)  Stop in Jerusalem 

(Amber) Wait for the Holy Spirit

(Green) Go out into the whole…

Today we have been using Scratch Junior on the iPads to use coding to create a scene with two characters having a conversation.

We needed to think carefully about the timings and check our programming constantly to debug any coding.

Using polystyrene sheets we copied our favourite sketch using felt tip onto the smooth surface. We then used a pencil to make a slight indent into the material. Using specialist printing inks we applied the ink using a roller onto the surface of the newly made printing tile. After that we gently…