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Not long until Christmas, the school is starting to look festive! This week we have shared the book 'You can't take an Elephant on the Bus' by Patricia Cleveland-Peck. It's a really funny story exploring why certain animals can't use certain vehicles. The whale can't use a bicycle because it has no feet! It has given the children the opportunity to use conjunctions (and, but, because) in their writing. In maths we have completed our unit about shape and have started to learn

Happy Friday! We have worked so hard this week. In English, we continued with Friend or Foe in our Reading sessions. We completed character descriptions in our Writing sessions. We extended our sentences using noun phrases, adverbs and conjunctions. In Maths, we completed our Multiplication and Division topic and used Supermovers to support our understanding of times tables. We have been focusing on our 2, 4 and 8 times tables. This week has been Parliament Week, so in PSHE w

In English, the children have been exploring our class book through the eyes of Ahmet. They wrote thoughtful diary entries describing how he might have felt on his very first day at school. The children had some wonderful ideas and used lots of descriptive language to capture his emotions, from nervousness and excitement to hope and curiosity. We were so impressed with the empathy and creativity they showed in their writing. In Maths, we celebrated finishing our fractions uni

Good afternoon, We have had a very busy week in Sycamore Class, from our normal class work, to completing tests and of course yesterday's 'Inspire Afternoon'. Thank you to everyone who was able to come yesterday, I hope you had a fun afternoon with us and you are all looking forward to the children bringing home their Roman shields. Here are a few pictures from yesterday's work. In maths we are continuing with multiplication and division, next week we will be looking at our 1

Another brilliant but busy week in Year 5! 🏊‍♂️ Swimming – Final Week & Fantastic Achievements This week marked our last swimming session . We are incredibly proud of the progress the children have made. Many Year 5 pupils have successfully achieved their 25 metres , showing determination and confidence in the water. Well done to everyone for their effort throughout the term! 🔬 Science – Testing Water Resistance In Science this week, the children have been exploring water r

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The Christmas Fayre will be held after school on Monday 8th December. All welcome!

If your child would like to see Santa at the Christmas Fayre. Please ensure you have purchased your tickets beforehand. Details of when tickets are going to be sold can be found on the poster below:

A reminder we break up for Christmas on Friday 19th December. School finishes at 1.15pm on this date and all children must be collected at this time unless they are in Years 5 & 6 and are a home walker. Monday 5th January is a PD day therefore, school is closed on this day. All pupils return on Tuesday 6th January 2026!

Pupils who are eligible for Free School Meals are entitled to HAF funding over the Christmas holidays. This week if your child is eligible for Free School Meals, please note this does not include Universal Infant Free School Meals, they will be coming home with a HAF leaflet which will include the code needed in order to book on the HAF holiday clubs. Further information is provided in the attachments below. If your child is eligible for Free School Meals and you do not recei

Happy Friday!   This week we have been looking at the story ‘The Scarecrow’s Wedding’.   We have been talking about celebrations and the children have enjoyed making cakes with playdough and in the sand, designing cakes and writing lists. The last couple of weeks we have been continuing our finger workouts and working on how we hold a pencil. Yesterday, we looked at how we formed ‘h’ and then the children had a go on whiteboards and in the sand.   In phonics, we have looked a

It’s been so cold we’ve made sure we’ve stayed warm and busy this week. In English we have started a new class text! We are reading Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo and are really excited to get stuck into it! In our writing we have been looking at character descriptions, and linking these to our prior knowledge of WW2. In Maths we have been learning our 2, 4 and 8 times tables in our Multiplication and Division topic. We have used BBC Supermovers to support our knowledge an

Good afternoon, I have been so impressed this week with some of the discussions and the work the children have produced. They have really got to grips with their new English writing unit on biographies. So far we have analysed one and had a go as a class writing one, before the children write one independently next week. In maths we are continuing to look at multiplication and division and have moved on to possibly the trickiest tables yet... the 7s. We will continue to look

The next Friends meeting will be held at school on Tuesday 25th November, 2pm. All are welcome to attend. If anyone can offer any support at the Christmas Fayre on 8th December but is unable to attend the meeting please contact the school or the Friends directly. We would appreciate any help!

A reminder that on Friday 28th November pupils are welcome to come into school in non uniform if they wish. We ask that if possible pupils also bring in a donation to the tombola for the Christmas Fayre. Thank you in advance for your support with this.

Our Christmas Dinner Day this year will be held on Tuesday 16th December. Please see details below. If your child would like a Christmas Dinner they will just need to order this in class as normal on the day.

On Friday 5th December Beech class will be performing their Christmas Nativity and we would love to welcome as many Parents/Carers to come and watch this fantastic performance! There are two performances on this date, please see below the timings: 9.30am 2.00pm We ask that all Parents/Carers wishing to attend the performance book a ticket online via the links below. Tickets are free. The Nativity will be performed at the school. Please see below ticket information: 9.30am per

We are holding our Christmas Carol service on Thursday 11th December, 1.30pm at the Baptist Church. All children apart from children in Beech class (Reception) will be taking part in this Carol Service. Beech class children have their Nativity on 5th December. More information can be found for this on the events page of the website. We ask that all parents/carers wishing to attend the Carol Service sign up via the link below and access a free ticket. Please see further inform

What a busy week we’ve had! In English we finished D-Day Dog. We really enjoyed the story and linking it to our writing. We also wrote a newspaper report based on D-Day using the amazing features we’ve been learning. In Maths we have continued with our Multiplication and Division topic. We enjoyed looking at each one in depth and using BBC Supermovers to support our learning. In Music we practiced finding the pulse in different musical pieces. We used our glockenspiels to p