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We have planted our Sunflower seeds this week. We discussed what plants need. We also labelled the features of a flower and spoke about the jobs they have. 

We enjoyed our Cricket Taster Day with Lauren today. We learnt to hit the ball into a space and to throw the ball underarm. 

We are starting to learn the ukuleles in Year 5. Today we just practised holding the ukuleles and plucking the four strings. Hope fully greater things are to come! Watch this space…

This afternoon, Year 3 were practising their observational drawing skills. We were sketching leaves with as much detail as possible.

We had a visitor in class today....Cedric the skeleton! First, we had to draw round someone in the class and then draw the bones that we thought were in our body. We were surprised to find out that humans have 206 bones in their skeleton. Cedric then visited and we discussed why we have a skeleton…

This afternoon, Year 3 went crown green bowling with Coach Dan.

In Year 5, we have started a new unit in English - poetry.  We have discussed what we think poetry is and what features you might find in a poem.  We have also read, discussed and performed different poems.  Each group was given a poem to read and investigate together.  We talked about which…

The sun shone for Year 6 today as they walked down to the Maritime Museum to take part in the slave trade trail developed by “Facing The Past” and some local teachers - including our very own Mrs Walsh.

Once we arrived at the Maritime Museum, we met our guide, Eleanor, who lead us round some of…

Today, Year 4 started their new Literacy genre of Classical Poetry. We are going to read a selection of poems from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.

We started by listening to The Naming of Cats. We found out that cats have three different names. The first is the one the family…

Today Year 5 was taken over by marauding Vikings (and a few Anglo Saxon monks!). We had a surprisingly peaceful day though, full of Viking activities: bread making (and eating), braiding to make cords, deciphering and writing in runes and making longships. We learned a lot too- especially about…

We were very proud of our finished vehicles.

At last our vehicles are finished.  They took a lot of hard work, resilience and perseverance.