Posted: Fri 13th Nov 2015
Mathletics….Congratulations to Emilia Ace who made it onto both the UK and world leader boards for Mathletics last week. 6th place in the UK and 21st in the world! Amazing! Also well done to Miss Ryle who made it onto the teachers leader board—10th place no less—Go Miss Ryle!!!! Reading Stars...Here...
read morePosted: Thu 12th Nov 2015
Welcome back to the second half of the autumn term! Despite some very miserable weather, it has been a good start back. Thank you to all of you who attended parent conferences at the start of the week, we hope that you found this useful and that you are pleased with...
read morePosted: Fri 23rd Oct 2015
Dear parents and carers, It has been a really busy half term and we are proud of what we have achieved as a school in such a short space of time. The Buzz Days have been a real success – the children and staff have really enjoyed them and our aim...
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Posted: Fri 23rd Oct 2015
On Tuesday Year 6 had a science buzz day for their topic - Could Spiderman really exist? Pupils learnt how to classify people and superheroes, using a classification key, before designing their own superheroes. At the end of the day, Mrs Freeman left a very important item (USB drive) with...
read morePosted: Fri 16th Oct 2015
Dear parents and carers, Well done to Jamie Oliver class who did a lovely class assembly on Thursday morning; in fact Thursday was a busy day for Year 1 as they had their X Factor Buzz Day in the afternoon—Mrs Freeman and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the children perform and there...
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Posted: Fri 16th Oct 2015
What can we say??? The hats were spectacular!!! The children had a great day and enjoyed their investigations about The Vitruvian Man—after meticulous measuring, it seems that Mr Ellis is the closest we have to Da Vinci’s blueprint! (if you believe that you’ll believe anything!!) The children enjoyed the maths games...
read morePosted: Fri 9th Oct 2015
Dear parents and carers, Thank you to everyone who came to the homework exhibition on Friday—we hope that you enjoyed looking at all of the children’s hard work and fantastic creativity! It has been yet another exciting week—Year 2 are off to the Science Museum today as part of their Materials and...
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Posted: Fri 9th Oct 2015
This week year 5 celebrated Thanksgiving day. They learnt all about what happened when the pilgrims first arrived in America and all about their first Thanksgiving feast. Throughout the day they took part in a variety of activities which included making Andy Warhol style art, making friendship bracelets and line...
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Posted: Fri 2nd Oct 2015
Dear parents and carers, The lovely sunshine this week has meant that children in reception have been enjoying their new outside area at every available opportunity! They will of course be out there come rain or shine—so our new set of waterproofs will no doubt come in handy soon! Year 3...
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Posted: Fri 2nd Oct 2015
On Tuesday Year 6 experienced what life would be like to live in Mongolia. They had a fantastic day making traditional headdresses complete with beads and feathers, baking yam and date cakes and tasting Mongolian noodles. The yam and date cake was delicious, definitely worth a try!
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Posted: Fri 2nd Oct 2015
We were very excited to open our new outdoor learning area this week which has been constructed mainly using reclaimed and second hand materials. The EYFS curriculum focusses on play based learning, working both indoors and outside. This courtyard will give the children many opportunities and inspire them to practise...
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Posted: Fri 25th Sep 2015
Dear parents and carers, I can’t quite believe that October is nearly upon us—the first month of school has flown by! This week has seen many exciting events such as the Year 1 trip to Tower Bridge; Bear Grylls class visiting Combe Bank School for a special science show, John Lennon...
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