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UKS2 Visit St Alban’s Church On A WW1 Trail.

UKS2 Visit St Alban’s Church On A WW1 Trail.

Article 29: Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people. Article 38: You have the right to protection and freedom from war.   This week...

Fun with fungus in Robins!

Fun with fungus in Robins!

Robins are excited to have received some fungus labs from Grow Wild and can't wait to see who can grow the biggest mushroom out of Nursery, Nightingales and Tulips! We planted some mycelium into some damp straw and have put them next to the radiator in our classroom...

Sharing in Robins

Sharing in Robins

The children in Robins have been learning to share amounts into equal groups. They began by sharing into 2 equal groups and then moved on to sharing into a variety of different sized groups. We used our trusty cookie cereal to count and solved lots of problems with...

PE with the Dragonflies

PE with the Dragonflies

During PE the children explored bouncing and throwing a ball with control. They worked hard to make sure that the balls bounced so that their partner could catch them. Great skill Dragonflies! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...

A visit from St. Alban’s

A visit from St. Alban’s

To help us in our RE learning, about the different ways Christians worship, we were delighted to be visited by Ken and Lynn from St. Alban's Church. Our guests spoke to Snowdrops, Tulips and Bluebells - to talk about the work they do in the community. Some of this...

Performing poets!

Performing poets!

This week the year 5 children have enjoyed exploring poems which are written to be performed. A particular favourite was Walking with my Iguana by Brian Moses! We looked at different language features found in these poems such as onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm, language...

Magnificent Miro Artwork

Magnificent Miro Artwork

As part of this term's topic, we have been studying surrealist artist Joan Miro. He uses shapes, objects and colour to create surreal pictures. This week, we used different shapes and lines to create colourful pieces of art inspired by Joan Miro. The Bluebells thought...