WOW what an amazing night the year 4 children had at SAPSMA, performing songs on stage with other local schools. Thank you for coming along to support your children, we hope you enjoyed the show. Well done to everyone who took part – you were amazing!  

Over the last couple of weeks, our focus has been on the British Science Week. Year 4 have enjoyed doing all sorts of experiments as well as exploring key Science vocabulary. For example, variables, hypothesis, predictions etc..   They were all very intrigued with the volcano experiment. We combined our whole school focus -recycling, with …

Continue reading

Year 4 have worked really hard in their spelling practise. They have enjoyed creating their own sentences using the spelling words of the week “quarter’, ‘learn’, ‘calendar’, ‘remember’, ‘pressure’ and ‘separate’. Their challenge was to see how many of these words could fit in one sentence to make sense! Fantastic work Year 4.

Our Year 4 children won the attendance trip and were lucky to get to go to DJ’s Soft Play for a treat.

Last week, Year 2 and Year 3 had an amazing trip to the Science Museum. I think you can see from the pictures that the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

This half term, we’ve been looking a lot at Floella Benjamin’s story ‘Coming to England’ and the struggles she faced and overcame during her youth. We also used this to tie into discussions about Black History Month and the struggles that others have faced throughout history. This really helped to foster fantastic discussion about how …

Continue reading

This week in Maths, Year 4 have been learning about place value, in particular comparing numbers using “greater than” and “less than” terminology. We have been exploring this concept through various manipulatives such as, using denes, counters, number cards and dice.

One of our books we have be looking at in English is ‘The Paper Bag Princess.’ We started looking at the characters and how we can portray them to each other. We thought about our body language and how the characters would sound. We then acted out part of the story in pairs and performed …

Continue reading

In Year Six, we have been learning about place value. We worked as a class to work out how to build Dienes block the size of 1 million!