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Nursery loved learning about and exploring all our different poppy stations this morning. During the minutes silence at 11am the children sat silently and watched a short animation clip called ‘Poppies’

Year 2 attended a short service at the War Memorial to commemorate Remembrance Day. The children respectfully observed a minutes silence before listening to a reading of a poem and being led in prayer by Reverend Becky. The class representatives for the Ethos Group laid a wreath before returning…

Today we observed two minutes of silence in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the two world wars and other conflicts.

In D&T year 5 have been learning about food and nutrition. They learnt about different types of bread that are eaten around the world and made their own unleavened flat bread which they enjoyed eating with garlic butter. 
They also learnt that in Denmark they eat a type of bread called rye bread…

Our Ethos group attended a zoom session with Sister Susan. She has lived and worked in Rwanda and has helped use donations that have been given to charity to support children in Rwanda and to help give them fresh running water. 
 

In Science this week we have started our Chemistry topic about the states of matter. We set up and performed our own investigations into the matter contained in each object. We discovered that whilst some objects may have the same mass, the size they take up is different. We also discovered that…

Year 5 visited the Library Van yesterday to choose some books for our class library. They all enjoyed browsing through the selection of books on offer and reading the blurb to see if was interesting. We now have a fresh set of books for the children to read in class. 

Year 5 visited the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Beacon today. They felt very privileged to view these amazing images of nature captured on camera. The Beacon is the only museum outside of the Natural History museum that is displaying these photos so it was a wonderful…

Year 2 enjoyed their first library van visit of the new school year. They enjoyed listening to a story read by the librarian before choosing a book each to take back to class. They are all looking forward to enjoying these in class over the coming weeks.

Yoga Zen Den
Year One enjoyed our very own yoga zen den in our PE lesson this week. We learnt lots of new yoga pose stretches and breathing exercises. We also practised some brain break activities to help us to relax and be mindful. 

Reception got the chance to visit the library bus this week and choose and share some books together, as well as choosing some books for us to read in class. They also got to have a story time session. 
 

In Reception we celebrated Bonfire night by learning about how to be safe around fireworks and sparklers. We then had our own sparkler using a carrot as a handle and then joined Nursery to watch our own firework. We finished the day with a hot chocolate and a biscuit.