Reception

Year 1 have had a glorious week in the sunshine! On Monday afternoon we enjoyed a wonderful musical concert, and we are so incredibly proud of all the children. It is a huge achievement to stand up on stage in front of an audience and play an instrumentwell done to everyone!

On Tuesday, we enjoyed a sunny afternoon down at forest school, where we helped to light a fire and toasted gooey marshmallows to make delicious s'mores! This week we have been putting our superstar writing skills into practice and we worked independently to write about animals in Africa. The children have all blown us away!

Finally, as we write this week's newsletter, we are super excited for the Colour Run on Friday morning to raise money for Zarach. It is a highlight of the year, and we can't wait.

We hope you all have the most fantastic half term break and enjoy cycling/scootering/ walking/running as many miles as you can for our sponsored bike ride. The children have been so inspired by Emmanuel's story and are excited and passionate to travel 400 miles, just like he did!

Good luck :)

We can’t quite believe that we will be returning after the holidays to start our final 5 weeks of Year 2! This half term has flown by, but what fun it has been. We had a wonderful start to the week watching the choir and soloists in the Year 2 Music Concert. A big thank you to Mrs Hayden for planning this lovely event. It was a lovely opportunity for the teachers and parents to see the children’s talents, and for the children to showcase their hard work. We were so impressed! We also had a fantastic finish to the half term with our Charity Colour Run! The children (and teachers!) had so much fun taking part and spectating the event and we want to say a huge thank you to Miss Flockhart for organising this. We can’t wait to see how much money we have raised as a school.

After spending two weeks on our latest destination on our travels, India, we have enjoyed trying more delicious delicacies making mango lassis and flatbreads down at the Forest. The children then wrote these recipes in their recipe books, so that you can try them at home! We focused on all of the features used when writing instructions such as numbers, time connectives, adverbs and the children even threw in some adjectives for extra measure.

We were all blown away by the children’s incredible art work this week. Having learnt about Indian animals this week, we looked at the work of wildlife artist David Shepherd. Year 2 were given half of an Indian animal of their choice and given the difficult challenge of drawing the other half. We focused on starting inwards first and working outwards, looking at symmetry and drawing exactly what we can see, not what we think the animal should look like. Their creations were stunning!

We have thoroughly enjoyed the whistle stop tours of the Travelling School so far and we can’t wait to see where we end up on next half term’s travels. Have a wonderful half term break Year 2, ready for the final chapter!

What a busy first half of the summer term it has been in Year 3! We can’t believe how quickly time has whizzed by, nor how much we have learnt.

From our overnight residential trip, to just this week performing in the music concert and participating in the colour run in aid of our school charity, Zarach.

We have thoroughly enjoyed our learning so far about Ancient Egypt, spending this week focussing on the infamous boy King, Tutankhamun. We used a range of sources to find out more about this famous pharaoh and created talking pictures using Chatterpix to present our findings. We were amazed to find that over 5,000 artefacts were recovered from his tomb, including over 400 clay figurines called Shabti’s.

We discovered that pharaohs were keen to be buried with shabti because they would bring them to life and make them do the chores in the afterlife!

In other areas of learning, we have had fun getting hands-on with Maths, using different vessels to measure capacities, read scales and carry out conversions.

When we return after half-term, we will proceed with our core text and look forward to introducing the children to the famous Ancient Egyptian Gods.

We would like to wish you all a restful and relaxing break and look forward to welcoming the children back for our final half term!