We are supporting Comic Relief
We are supporting the charity Comic Relief this year. This will take place on Friday 18th March. Dress up / dress down: Children are invited to make a donation and in return come to school dressed in non-uniform. We encourage children to wear something red. Please...
Fairtrade Fortnight
Last week we enjoyed exploring Fairtrade Fortnight across the school. We have learned about food producers from different parts of the world and the problems that affect farmers in some countries and areas. We learned what the Fairtrade scheme is and the importance...
Holy Places
This week in RE the children in LKS2 have been learning about holy places. They learned about the significance of the Himalayas to Hindus and how the mountains represent the god Himavat. The children then used their art skills to draw the Himalayas and explain why it...
Rights Respecting School Council Meeting
The Rights Respecting School Councillors have been meeting with Miss Clough to canvas opinions about lunch times and healthy eating. Miss Clough tasked them with asking their peers a series of questions. Today the children fed back their findings. Article 15: You have...
Celebrating Rights Respecting around school
The Rights Respecting School Councilors did a Rights Respecting walk around this week. They were looking for evidence of Rights Respecting around school. The children were very proud to see that Rights Respecting is evident and celebrated in each classroom and around...
UKS2 Christmas Crafts!
This week the children in UKS2 have been preparing for Christmas and the New Year by creating some cards and calendars. Children used their ICT skills in particular to create their calendars, where they used PowerPoint to mind map some of their favourite things! Take...
Pop-up Christmas cards in LKS2!
This term, Lower Key Stage 2 have been researching, testing, designing and making pop-up Christmas cards. The stage we reached this week was to create our front cover and attach the lever mechanism. As well as that, the children had to complete the design by adding an...
Nursery Christmas Crafts
We have had a very festive week! We have worked really hard making our Christmas cards which were completed in several stages. We all made a white footprint to represent a snowman which we found really funny as the paintbrush tickled our feet! Once the footprint was...
Christmas Cards in Nightingales
After an exciting morning being filmed for our performance of 'Whoops-a Daisy Angel' Nightingales have been creative once again making Christmas cards. We're feeling very Christmassy! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged...
Celebrating Diwali in Nursery
This week we have focussed on celebrating Diwali and Bonfire night. We discussed the fact that fireworks were often used to celebrate both Diwali and Bonfire night. We produced some beautiful firework painting both inside and outdoors using a variety of methods. We...
Nelson Mandela Biographies in Year 5
This week Year 5 finished their class book Journey to Jo'burg, which was all about the apartheid laws in South Africa. After finishing the book, the children learnt a little bit more about the history behind the story in the book. They particularly focused on Nelson...
A B C D E rights of the child
The Rights Respecting School Councillors conducted a walk around school to ensure that the school is promoting Rights Respecting effectively. They decided that the A B C D E rights of the child needed to be displayed more around school. We made posters and have now...