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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.

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.