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4 10, 2024

Prehistoric Palette

By |2024-10-04T08:27:50+01:00October 4th, 2024|Class 3|Comments Off on Prehistoric Palette

In our art lesson this week, we explored prehistoric artwork making links to out history topic. Back in the Stone Age they used natural materials to write, draw and paint the cave walls with. We had a go ourselves at using some to make paint! We mixed flour and water, then tried adding cinnamon, [...]

30 09, 2024

When having cake for breakfast is brilliant!

By |2024-09-30T21:35:23+01:00September 30th, 2024|Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4, Class 5, Class 6, Class R, Front Page Slider, Whole School|Comments Off on When having cake for breakfast is brilliant!

It was a pleasure to welcome you all to our Friday morning MacMillan Coffee Morning last week. As you can see from the photos, there's nothing better than a slice of cake and a brew to get the day underway! Your brilliant bake off entries were nothing short of spectacular and I had no [...]

30 09, 2024

Baking bread for the Little Red Hen

By |2024-09-30T21:12:47+01:00September 30th, 2024|Class R, Whole School|Comments Off on Baking bread for the Little Red Hen

This week, we have been exploring the traditional tale of The Little Red Hen who asks her farmyard friends, "who will help me ... grow the wheat, make the flour and bake the bread?", to which they all reply, "not I!" Fortunately, the Reception children children were much more helpful than the farm animals [...]

25 09, 2024

Successful Saturdays!

By |2024-09-25T14:07:13+01:00September 25th, 2024|Class 6, Front Page Slider, Sport|Comments Off on Successful Saturdays!

Our footballing campaign got off to a flying start for both boys and girls! As normal, the season started with two Saturday morning journeys to St Peters Junior School to compete in the Rushcliffe schools tournament. The boys were first on Saturday, 7th September, and after an impressive performance during the warm up of [...]

19 09, 2024

Potted Sports and Plenty of Community Spirit!

By |2024-09-19T15:26:48+01:00September 19th, 2024|Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4, Class 5, Class 6, Class R, Front Page Slider, Whole School|Comments Off on Potted Sports and Plenty of Community Spirit!

There's nothing better than a sunny September afternoon to bring the community together for an afternoon of fun and sport. Our whole-school Potted Sport event saw Year 6 take the lead and head up teams that completed various challenges and activities. It's all about working together and practising our 5 C's. As you can [...]

13 09, 2024

Superb Scientists

By |2024-09-13T15:14:09+01:00September 13th, 2024|Class 5|Comments Off on Superb Scientists

Year Five Science During an excellent first week back, year five proved their superb investigative skills whilst conducting our science investigation this week. The class set about exploring objects within the classroom testing their transparency (they saw straight through my jokes unfortunately), thermal conductivity and magnetism. As you can see, they had great fun [...]

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