Today in PE, Year 2 have been practising catching a ball consistently and moving their opponent around the court when playing against them through skill development and then applying it into an adapted game. Well done everyone! 

Today in year 2, we created a printed piece of art by pressing, rolling and rubbing using leaves. How fabulous does our artwork look?

As part of their topic, Year 5 created some newly discovered fruit yesterday!  To begin with, they sketched the interesting designs of some real fruit, such as oranges, kiwi and pomegranate.  Their next step will be to paint their drawings and add detail.  For instance, they might design a new purple kiwi, or a turquoise pomegranate!  Finally, they will create a new Chapter of their class text to describe how it was found with a detailed description of how it looks, feels and tastes!  Fantastic work to all our talented artists in Year 5!  Mrs Blomeley

Today we started our P4C sessions about building resillience to extremism through enquiry. Our first session today was about identity and what is important about being ourselves. We had to choose 6 qualities that are important to us. These included things like being human, a niece, a brother, a friend, a reader, a footballer and a dog sister.

After lots of discussion we came up with two lines of enquiry but decided to discuss the question about hobbies and the school day. It was interesting listening to different viewpoints.

Well done year 6.

Year 4 have worked ever so hard drawing portraits of Henry VIII's wives. They had a short tutorial and practised drawing faces,  ensuring the facial features were evenly spaced. I'm sure you would agree with me, that they are fabulous. 

Year 4 had a fabulous time experimenting with their first steps into movie making. They used the programme iMotion to capture movement with many random objects and then went onto experiment with writing their name in 100 frames. The children had a fabulous time learning new skills. 

Our Year 3 and 4 girls were very excited to take part in the futsal competition last week. They played games against Manchester Road, Yew Tree, Oakfield and Greenside. A special well done to Matilda and Chloe who got medals for being players of the tournament. The girls loved taking part and were all keen to play some more futsal in the future. Also a big thank you to all the families that came down to support and for making a big sign to cheer on the girls. 

We loved planting our beans and are excited to watch them grow. We made predictions for which on we thought would grow the best- in the dark, with water and sunlight or with no water. Let's see what happens!

Welcome back to Spring Term 2 in Year 5 where our topic "Why should the world's rainforests matter to all of us?" continues, in our attempt to explore the impact of climate change.  This term we will focus on presenting an assembly to Key Stage 2,  to impart Year 5's new found knowledge about this growing problem.  We will explore Greta Thunberg's book about her own efforts to help the planet and we will continue to read the award winning novel "The Explorer" by Katherine Rundell.  The class will write their own adventure narratives about

Year 5 had some intelligent and in depth discussions this week to look at the stages of child development in our Life Cycles topic in Science. For instance, at what age would a child start to recognise sounds in words?  Or when would they read a range of books independently?  They used their knowledge of themselves or their younger and older siblings to decide.  This is an example of Science Capital - what you know about scientific literacy and your related knowledge.  Brilliant work Year 5!  Mrs Blomeley