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Light of God’s Creation candle holders

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 2:56pm

We worked collaboratively to design a stained glass style candle holder using hot glue and lolly sticks. We stuck 4 pieces together to make a candle holder representing our care for Creation

Y2 Computing Painting Pictures.

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 2:53pm

So far we have learnt to use 2Paint to focus on impressionist art and pointillism. Today we looked at the work or Piet Mondrian and created our own style of Mondrian painting. 

Year 3- RE

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 1:18pm

As a part of their creation and covenant unit, year 3 have used their artistic skills to draw a representation of one of the days from the creation story and colour it in using oil pastels.

Year 5 Maths

Date: 24th Sep 2026 @ 11:35am

We worked with partners to solve non-routine problems in maths. We had to sort the given numbers to show which were the largest. The sum of our answer was our score. The challenge was to arrange the numbers to make the highest score that we could. 

Y3 PE- Basketball

Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:30pm

Year 3 worked really hard today on their basketball skills. They focussed on dribbling in different ways and had a practice at all 3 types of passes. 

Whole School Assembly on Yom Kippur

Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 3:11pm

Today, we learnt about the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur in our whole school assembly. We learnt that during Yom Kippur Jewish people wear white and think about asking God for forgiveness. They also pray five special prayers during that special day. 

Year 5 Salt Dough Ten Commandments

Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 2:28pm

In RE today, we discussed The Ten Commandments and explained which one we thought was the most important one. We then made stone tablets using salt dough and wrote the commandment we thought was most important on it. 

Year 3- Music

Date: 23rd Sep 2026 @ 10:36am

Year 3 have enjoyed doing a variety of different activities in music. They have focused on pitch and rhythm in some singing activities before having a go on their recorders for the firdt time!

Year 3 - Maths - Place value

Date: 22nd Sep 2026 @ 2:42pm

Year 3 have been using place value counters and grids to support them with their learning and to secure firm foundations in numbers up to 1000.

Year 3- PE - Table tennis

Date: 22nd Sep 2026 @ 2:39pm

Year 3 have worked hard to begin mastering some of the basic skills of table tennis. They have all worked very and been very patient when trying to keep the ball on the table!

Year 3- French

Date: 22nd Sep 2026 @ 2:36pm

Year 3 have been enjoying learning French and they are now picking up on some different words and phrases. 

Year 6 Salt Dough Ten Commandments

Date: 22nd Sep 2026 @ 2:27pm

We discussed The Ten Commandments and then made stone tablets using salt dough and wrote on the commandment which we thought was the most important one. 

EYFS - Autumn

Date: 22nd Sep 2026 @ 12:07pm

This week in EYFS, the children have been exploring the signs of autumn as part of our Understanding the World learning. We have been discussing the changes we can see in the environment, including the different colours of the leaves, cooler weather and how nature changes during this special season.

The children enjoyed creating beautiful autumn wreaths using paint and printing techniques. They carefully selected autumn colours and experimented with different tools and materials to create their own designs. 

In our music sessions, we have been learning and performing our autumn songs, Autumn Leaves and Big Red Combine Harvester. The children have loved joining in with the actions and singing together. 

In phonics, we have learned the sounds 'a' and 't' and have been busy practising recognising, saying and forming these sounds. Thank you to all families for supporting your child's reading at home. We really appreciate the time you spend sharing books and practising phonics, as this makes a huge difference to children's progress and confidence.

In maths, we have been developing our counting skills and have been learning to count reliably to 3 through a range of practical activities, songs and games.

We are incredibly proud of how engaged and enthusiastic the children have been during their learning this week. They are continuing to settle well into school routines, make new friendships and demonstrate our school rules: Be Safe, Be Proud and Be Respectful.

Next week, we are looking forward to going on an autumn hunt around the school grounds to search for signs of the season. We will also be using the natural treasures we find to create our own autumn creatures. We can't wait to continue our autumn adventures!

Y5 Place value

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 4:08pm

We took part in Active Maths for our lesson to consolidate our understanding of numbers up to 1,000,000. We had to find partitioned numbers that were hid around the playground. Once we had found then, we had to work together to work out what the six-digit number was and read it. The first team to find it and work it out got a point and the team to find the most numbers first got 5 dojos each! We then made up a little tune to help us to remember what place value means.

Y5 Celebration of the Word-Creation

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:50pm

Some Year 5 pupils planned a Celebration of the Word around the theme of Creation. They decided to use the song "All Things Bright and Beautiful".

Y2 Guided Reading: The Troll

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:45pm

This week we started our new Guided Read text 'The Troll' by Julia Donaldson. 
We enjoyed reading out loud in expressive voices and predicting about the characters. 

Rainbow Unit Yellow Class - Week 2

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 3:30pm

Yellow Class🟡

We have had a lovely week in Yellow class this week.

We have carried on with our letter ‘S’ in phonics and have enjoyed singing our nursery rhymes. All the children have enjoyed the tactile exploration of the salt dough experience. We have explored Gelli Baff and some children enjoyed the sensory experience more than others! We have experienced different sensory elements during our sensory story about the weather eg. Water spray for the rain and a fan for the wind. We have enjoyed taking part in our sensory PE session where all of the children enjoyed exploring the sensory equipment.

Miss Stockton and Ms Mort

Y6 Colour theory

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 2:47pm

Today, we experimented with colour in our art lesson. We used watercolours to try out different colours so that we can choose our favourite combinations for our final piece at the end of the half term. 

Y6 Sketching of flowers

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 2:45pm

In art, we sketched flowers. We concentrated on small details and pressed lightly with our pencils. We were all proud of our excellent drawings. 

Rainbow Unit Orange Class- Week 2

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 1:14pm

What a busy week in the Orange Class 🟠

The children have mainly enjoyed all our sensory experiences. For our creative activity, the children have made salt dough ornaments, the children enjoyed mixing the dough, rolling it out flat and pressing in a cutter.

For our sensory play, we have explored gelli baff. This was a big hit for some children and they really liked the feeling of it. For some children, just one little touch was enough!

In our sensory PE sessions, the children loved the sensory apparatus, we even did some colour sorting and throwing activities in the there. We’ve continued the colour sorting back in our classroom!

We complete Bucket Therapy sessions every day and we have moved up to Stage 2 which is the attention builder part of the process, this is amazing! Some children are staying past stage 1, till the end of stage 2 😊

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman and Miss Caine

Y4 Partitioning

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 11:35am

This week the children have been partitioning four digit numbers. Today we used place value mats and counters to show different numbers.

Y1 Counting from a larger group

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:37am

The children in Year 1 enjoyed playing a game today where they took it in turns to count numbers of cubes from a larger group after rolling a dice. The winner was the person to pick up the last cube. The children had to think about which number they want to roll to be able to win.

Y1 Computing

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:35am

Today, the children in Year 1 learned how to log on to our computing program called Purple Mash. We discussed the importance of keeping passwords private. After we had logged on, the children were able to create their own avatar to represent them while online. 

Y6 Space

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:13am

We have been learning about the heliocentric and geocentric models of our solar system in science. We made representations of both models in groups and then explained them to the class. 

Y6 Ordering and comparing numbers

Date: 18th Sep 2026 @ 9:09am

We have been working hard in our maths lessons to compare and order numbers. 

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