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25 June 2021

Design Technology Day in Year 2

Year 2 have been learning about the history of puppets in preparation for designing and making marionette puppets. The children thoroughly enjoyed the making process and are very proud of their final creations. The children found out that puppets have been used to entertain people for thousands of…

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14 May 2021

Year 3 are busy looking after the birds

On Friday, we all enjoyed making Cheerio bird feeders. Hope they got home unnibbled!

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1 April 2021

Holy Week activities in Reception

During Lent we have thought about how we can grow more like Jesus, so we have been even kinder to each other and more helpful.  
 

This week we listened to the Story of Palm Sunday and The Last Supper.  We cut out palm leaves and tried really hard to improve our cutlery skills!  We have…

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1 April 2021

Moon Landing

We have had so much fun learning about Space and the Moon!  It has been one of the most exciting Topics we have learnt about!  As we came to an end, the children wanted to know more about Man on the Moon!  We watched a video clip of the first Moon Walk and we talked a lot about gravity!  We look…

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20 March 2021

Y1 Celebrate St. Joseph’s Day


On Friday 19th March we celebrated St. Joseph’s day.  We all wore red because it’s a special colour associated with St. Joseph. We enjoyed a break time Jammie Dodger which went down a treat. We had fun learning some facts about St. Joseph’s life.  In the afternoon we created paper lilies, we…

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19 March 2021

Hammering Nails

While Year 4 were learning about carpentry, they compared the methods and tools Saint Joseph might have used with those used by carpenters today.  

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19 March 2021

Wooden Stars of Bethlehem

Here are our completed Stars of Bethlehem.

 

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19 March 2021

Celebrating St Joseph’s Day

St Joseph was a carpenter so today Year 4 were working with wood to make a Star of Bethlehem. They learned that carpentry requires the use of different skills, an understanding of safety and a lot of concentration. They also discovered that having an extra pair of helping hands is very useful. 

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19 March 2021

Our bread caterpillars

This week we have been reading the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The children have then been making their own caterpillars out of bread and even adding some raisins for eyes. Over the next few weeks we will be learning more about caterpillars and butterflies. 
 

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3 March 2021

Y6 Lockdown Design and Technology

As part of their Design and Technology curriculum, the Y6 children who are learning from home were tasked with developing their own recipes and creating some delicious dishes in the kitchen. Dishes created ranged from cup-cakes to pizza and pasta dishes!

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1 March 2021

Pancake tasting in Nursery

Nursery made some pancakes to celebrate Pancake day. We flipped them in a frying pan and then the best part- we got to taste them! We could choose Biscoff spread, syrup, chocolate sauce or jam to go on them. Yummy. 
 

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25 February 2021

Y5 'Design and Make' Moon Buggies

As part of their topic on space Y5 were challenged with the task of designing and making a moon buggy with similar features to the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo programme during 1971 and 1972. As you can see they all did a great job!
 

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