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Year 4 enjoyed learning new tennis skills with Dan. They learnt how to hold the racket correctly, how to serve and enjoyed playing a few games.

Today we released our butterflies after four weeks of nurturing them from baby caterpillars to cocoons then finally to butterflies. We have learned so much from watching them grow, develop and change.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been working in small groups on developing our own ‘Mindfulness’.  This involves celebrating ourselves and developing our own self esteem.  We look forward to the rest of the groups taking part next.  

Year 3 enjoyed taking part in Sprint races with some added extra challenges. 

Year 3 enjoyed learning the skills needed for the Triple Jump.  It was great fun seeing how we could improve our jumping distance. 

After nearly four weeks of waiting, the first butterflies emerged from their cocoons today. The children were full of awe and wonder at what they saw. They can’t wait for the rest of the butterflies to emerge over the coming days.

We all enjoyed Fiddadle’s performance in school. They impressed us by playing many instruments, riding a unicycle whilst playing the violin and blowing into the didgeridoo! Some of us got to play the instruments and we all had the opportunity to sing and dance along. 

As part of Y4’s topic on electricity the children learnt how to wire up a circuit to make the bulb light up. They discovered that if the circuit wasn’t complete it wouldn’t work. They also practised drawing circuits using all the correct scientific symbols. 

We have welcomed some new starters to our Nursery after the Easter holidays and our current Nursery have been helping them to settle in. They have been showing them how to play with our provision and how to be a  kind and helpful friend. 

Who said SATs revision had to be boring? Y6 showed off all their hard work and knowledge this afternoon as they gravitated the yard with chalk. 

Y4 have been learning about Celtic homes. This involved researching, brainstorming, sharing information and report writing. They learnt that they were built on a hill so they could see enemies coming and were surrounded by spiked fences for protection. They were intrigued to discover that the…

Year 4 enjoyed learning how to do the Triple Jump in athletics today. We all agreed it was harder than it looked but we all managed to improve how far we jumped during the lesson.