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Year 3 enjoyed listening to Stone Age stories and choosing books to take home. The librarian said they were the best behaved children she had ever had.

Today Year 5 attended a XC fitness challenge at St. Benedict’s school. They ran a 2km course and we’re all timed. An average time will be taken from this. In June we will return and run the course again aiming to improve our average time. All the children did incredibly well in the muddy…

Year 6 have been studying the Remembrance poem ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon as part of their writing lessons. At the end of the unit, they chose a verse to learn by heart and performed it. They practised speaking rhythmically, varying the volume and intonation of their voices.  They also…

This morning we observed two minutes of silence in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the two world wars. 
 

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…