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In French today, Year 4 played a matching game using pictures and French vocabulary. You had to match the picture to the correct French word. The child with the most pairs was the winner. This was a fun way for us to learn the names of classroom objects in French. See if your child can tell you…

Today we got the chance to evaluate the shelters we made last half term. Our design brief had been to construct a shelter to house a family of four playmobile people. It had to be waterproof, and built of a construction strong enough to withstand a 500g weight being dropped on its roof and a 30…

This half term we are learning to be gymnasts.  So far we have practised our jumping skills and here we are learning to travel in different ways.  Can you tell which animal we are?  You may have spotted we are moving sideways!! 

We enjoyed our 1st dance session with Miss Helen on our ‘ Superheroes’ topic. We enjoyed creating the different characters.

This afternoon, we started our printing topic in Art. We looked at artwork by William Morris, Richard Shimmel and Lisa Stubbs. We then used carbon paper to print pictures we had drawn onto our paper in repeating patterns.

We have started our ‘Let’s Travel!’ topic in class and within that we are going to be learning all about electricity, circuits and conductors and switches. Our first lesson this week was talking about all the components that make up a simple circuit. The children all managed to make the bulb light…

Not quite the real thing but at least we found some British animals in our playground.

We started our new topic off in the playground (in spite of the rain) with a search for some British animals.  We knew lots of them were nocturnal so Mrs Cross may have helped us out and put some pictures out to help us!

Today Year 6 got back to making their shelters after a week off for Enterprise Week. They worked incredibly hard to create their designs using some of the materials they tested previously and worked very well not only in their pairs but as a whole class, helping each other out when necessary and…

We have been looking at different types of houses. We also spoke about houses from the past and looked to see how houses have changed.

The two performances of The Landlord's Cat were amazing and everyone did a fantastic job with their singing, dancing, acting, learning lines and signing. We hope you enjoyed it.

We had a fantastic time at our Christmas party! Lots of singing, dancing and playing lots of games.