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World Book Day

World Book Day

On World Book Day, Year 6 recreated the cover of Skellig by David Almond. They demonstrated fantastic collaborative working and produced a brilliant piece of artwork

Critically Reviewing Poetry

Critically Reviewing Poetry

In Year 5, the children have been analysing the poem, The River, by Valerie Bloom. To support their understanding of the poem, the children explored the vocabulary and features within it before writing a critical review of the poem. Many of the children commented that...

Year 3 World Book Day

Year 3 World Book Day

Year 3 celebrated World Book Day 2025 by wearing pyjamas, sharing our favourite books and enjoying a drink and a snack. We also joined a funny online author talk with thousands of other KS2 children around the UK. Bestselling children’s author, Pamela Butchart...

World Book Day

World Book Day

Year 2 have really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day today. We came to school dressed in our pyjamas and brought our favourite books to share with our friends. We thought about some of our favourite book characters and gave clues to see if others could guess who we...

We are Sculptors!

We are Sculptors!

In Year 2 art lessons, the children have been looking at different sculptures by the sculptor Antony Gormley. We found out his works include our own Angel of the North. We thought about how the sculptures made us feel and we experimented with tinfoil to make our own...

Quicksticks Hockey

Quicksticks Hockey

This afternoon, some children from Year 3 and Year 4 were invited to take part in the SSP’s Quicksticks hockey tournament at Lord Lawson. They formed two teams and played three matches each within their groups. We had some great goals scored and some incredible...

Keyboard After School Club

Keyboard After School Club

Well done to our Year 5 & 6 children who attended keyboard after school club tonight. After quickly learning the notes of the keys they all were able to play the nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle confidently by the end of the session! Myself and Mrs Donkin were...

Lets Dance!

Lets Dance!

Today Year 1 began their dancing unit for PE. They all really enjoyed using the scarfs to help them create new movements. They all worked really hard and are already looking forward to next weeks session.

Year 3 Maths Investigation

Year 3 Maths Investigation

Solving correspondence problems systematically Today Year 3 learnt how to solve problems systematically. One of our lovely children pretended to be a snowman and we had to work out all of the combinations of hats and scarves that he could wear. We used a logical order...