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Year 6 combined SPAG revision with orienteering skills today as they worked on our recently installed new orienteering course. They had to use a map to find their way to specific control points before answering  SPAG question at each one. what a fun and healthy way to revise for SATs!

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Year 4 had their Cats drama lesson on Tuesday. They performed to two of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songs, Macavity the Mystery Cat and Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat. They dressed up and made themselves masks to get into role.  During Macavity they paused to join in with the repeating lines. Using PE…

Jonny, from NISCU, joined us on his prayer walk today. He was greeted like a celebrity and the children were delighted that he'd worn his onesie just for our school. He prayed for the school, our children and staff and the wider community. Thank you Jonny - it was great to see you!

Coach Dan taught us some skills for crown green bowling this afternoon. We were given a bowl and tried to aim at a target. By the end of the afternoon, we had certainly improved our aim and some of us even managed to get our bowl on the centre circle.

We retold the story of Jack and the Beanstalk by taking the different characters and changing our voices. We discussed the characters, setting and the events. 

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…