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Our Year 4 and Year 5 children went on a school trip to Silverstone and had the best time, they thoroughly enjoyed the day and even wrote a card to say thank you to the office staff for organising.

Also this week, in Nursery we talked about the different celebrations during the autumn. On Halloween, we talked about the story ‘Room on the Broom.’ We gathered round to conduct our own little science experiment. We talked about what would happen if we mixed an acid (vinegar) with an alkali (bicarbonate of soda). They were …

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In Nursery this week, we have been talking about the seasons. We have focused our learning on the season of Autumn. We talked about how and why the leaves change colour and fall from the trees. We also learnt some new vocabulary including the words ‘migrate’ and ‘hibernate.’ The children have enjoyed carving out pumpkins, …

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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 …

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In art we have been learning about the artist, ‘Yayoi Kusama’ Her art work is based on using dots. As part as black history month and Science, we have been learning about Mae Jemison. We decided to paint a portrait of her using the same style of art as Yayoi Kusama.

In maths we  have been learning about place value and  2 – digit numbers using dienes, money and bead strings.

In Year 2, we have been reading the story, ‘Coming to England’. We made story boxes to help us retell the story. We painted pictures of our favourite parts and wrote sentences.

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.

KS1 had an exciting visit from St Albans Fire Station. The children had an amazing time learning all about the Fire Engine.

In Maths this week, we have been learning how to subtract numbers from within 10. We have used our prior learning of ‘part whole models’ to support our understanding of subtraction. This lesson was especially exciting as we were able to draw on the tables using whiteboard pens! We drew big part whole models on …

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