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We enjoyed our annual egg rolling competition today. 

Before designing our own vehicles, we had to learn how an axle works.  We learnt about two different types - axles with fixed wheels and those with moving wheels.  We made both before choosing which to use in our designs.

In RE we have been finding out more about who Jesus is, including learning about some of the different names used for Jesus either in the Bible or by Christians generally. We used these names to create our stunning Easter cards.

Everyone inYear 6 has had the opportunity to take part in Bikeability training this week, making sure we have the knowledge and experience to ride our bikes on the road safely for ourselves and other road users. This involved two full days of practice with instructors from Go Velo. We began on the…

We looked at lots of art inspired by Easter and Jesus’ death and resurrection. We then used paints or crayons to create our own artwork to represent the idea of victory at Easter. We used different techniques including sponging. We also listened to different Easter hymns and found words and…

Year 4 have been making ripped paper collages in the style of Antoni Gaudi. The ripped paper looks like his tile mosaic technique called trencardis. The children had a variety of source material and then designed their own picture. Here are a selection of the completed ones.

Today, Year 3 were designing packaging for the snozzcumber from BFG to make them more appealing.

Today, we started to create our final animations within our groups. We worked hard to use the skills we had learned to create a more seamless and organised animation, with a steady background and small movements between photographing the scenes. We each had our own roles to ensure that filming ran…

We really enjoyed Mabel’s pet tortoise coming for a visit today. We learnt lots of interesting facts about what he eats, how you look after him and that he has just been hibernating over the winter months. 
We didn’t realise how fast he could move either! 

This morning we went to Dorrington Road Woods. We have found out about creatures who live in British woods. We looked at creatures with no legs, 2 legs and as many as 8 legs. We collected natural materials to make a picture of a woodland creature. Can you guess what we made?

The whole school had a great time this afternoon, taking part in a choice of activities to help us relax. Activities available included mindfulness colouring, forest schools, cross stitch, Lego, jigsaws and reading to name just a few. Several children enjoyed decorating biscuits as one of their…

We enjoyed practising our gymnastic sequences on the apparatus this week.