Image of Year 2 Wheelchair Basketball Session 2025
27 January 2025

Year 2 Wheelchair Basketball Session 2025

Year 2 enjoyed taking part in a wheelchair basketball session. The session began with them learning how to manoeuvre their wheelchairs so they could play a short game. The children were very competitive and worked well as a team to score points in the opposition’s net. What a wonderful experience…

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27 January 2025

Reception wheelchair basketball 2024

Reception enjoyed a wheelchair basketball session, learning how to move the chairs, go backwards and forwards and move around the hall. They even had a turn at using a ball to shoot it into a net. They had lots of fun when they learnt how they could move faster by using their hands on the wheels. 

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27 January 2025

Year of Jubilee Launch Year 5

Today we launched the Year of Jubilee, which is themed "Pilgrims of Hope." We reflected on Pope Francis's words about demonstrating our status as pilgrims of hope through our actions and words, showing patience, courage, and forgiveness. We revisited the parable of the Prodigal Son and…

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27 January 2025

Wheel Chair Basket Ball Year 5

Year 5 had a blast with wheelchair basketball today! They started with a game of tag to get the hang of it and then moved on to competitive basketball matches. The instructor was impressed by how quickly they picked it up and how well they worked together as a team.

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27 January 2025

Jubilee 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope

Year 3 celebrated the launch of the Jubilee Year, as announced by Pope Francis. We learned about what it meant, prayed and wore bright clothes to mark the day. We also learnt about the logo and considered what we could do to help our local communities.

 

 

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27 January 2025

Wheelchair Basketball Y6 2025

Year 6 had a fabulous time experiencing Wheelchair Basketball today. They had to use many skills and coordinate these in a different way in order to navigate the wheelchair and play the game. 

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27 January 2025

Year 4 Textiles

In DT we have moved on to our Textiles block where we are trying to solve the problem ‘How do you keep a tea towel from slipping off a hook?’

First, we identified the problem and researched the different types of fastenings. Then, we practiced using running stitch to attach fastenings (we chose…

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24 January 2025

Year 3 pupils plan their own Prayer and Liturgy

Year 3 children thought about the events within the liturgical calendar, feast days and themes in the weekly Gospel readings. They used this to plan their own prayer and liturgy for Friday. They worked as a group of 2/3, gained help from the internet, bibles and each other. They worked so hard to…

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24 January 2025

Year 3 dancers

Our Year 3 children have been perfecting their animal dances. They had some great moves. The Sports Values were shown and recognised in Cameron, Ella, Adalyn and Mia.

 

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24 January 2025

Design and Technology Year 5

In Design and Technology, Year 5 children tested different materials to explore their properties, such as being hard, soft, rough, smooth, foldable, waterproof, man-made, or natural. They were searching for a durable material to create a bag, and after their tests, they concluded that denim would…

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24 January 2025

Nursery: Obstacle Courses

This week in Nursery we have been putting our maths prepositional skills into practise by building an obstacle course. The children placed planks on the tyres to balance and climb on. I modelled language like “on, up, over and under” to the children as they made their way along the different parts…

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24 January 2025

Nursery: I want to be … a fire fighter

Last week we read the story “I want to be … a fire fighter”. In the story we found out what a fire fighter wears and some of the jobs they do.

The children then enjoyed exploring the fire fighter role play toys.

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