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Today we had our annual Christmas party.  Great fun was had by all as we played many Christmassy games including the Chocolate Game, the Nativity Dash and, of course, Johnny Smartie!

In science we have looked at using keys to classify things, particularly living things. Today we used our knowledge of keys to create our own ones for a wide variety of sweets! We had to look at size, colour, texture, the ingredients and the structure in order to sort the different sweets. Look at…

We enjoyed taking part in Inter-Sports today, where we concentrated on underarm throwing for accuracy and over arm throwing for distance. We worked as a team to get as many points. Well done Red Team! 

Over the last 5 weeks, we have been going through the New Testament stories and themes with James Bovinizer from Bible Explorers. We have learnt about every book in the New Testament and learnt some key actions to go with the main ideas. This now means we have covered the entire Bible as we learnt…

We enjoyed our buddies coming to share a book with us today. We chose a book that we enjoy and they read it to us. 

Christmas time has certainly given us the opportunity to use the skills we have been developing in nursery! 

We we have been busy looking closely at different textures and materials and used some of these to represent snowmen and Santas on our Christmas display. We also used our cutting skills…

Year 3 visited nursery and shared some Christmas stories with us. 

A few snaps of our Christmas party.  Not the best pictures I've ever taken but we were too busy having fun to concentrate on quality snaps!!  And the Christmas conga was too much to resist!! :-) 

This year we were invited to go to the new sheltered housing development at Williamson's Court to sing carols. The manager had asked us what charities we support and when we told them about the Olive Branch, they decided to make a collection of food to donate to the Olive Branch. Today we went,…

As we do every year, Year 6 went to Chirnside House today to help the vicar with the carol service at CHirnside House. We went with Rev. Rebecca and Mrs Weatherill from St. Paul's. We sang carols and did the Bible readings, whilst Rev. Rebecca talked to us and the residents about the angels in the…

We have been discussing the features of different houses and we have been designing our own dolls house. We have looked at houses from the past and the present, comparing features on older houses and more modern houses. Then we designed our own dolls house and started making them using materials…

Since September we have been having weekly hockey lessons with Coach Nick. Our skills have definitely improved over this time. Today we finished with a mini tournament and Coach Nick was really impressed with our attitude as well as our skills.