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Farfield Farm
Our top field hosts Farfield Farm: a locally unique horticultural facility that the children can enjoy and learn from throughout the year comprising of two large polytunnels, an extensive orchard, outdoor planting areas, an accessible garden, greenhouse, classroom, pigs area, a flock of chickens and bee hives. Younger children do seasonal visits whereas the Read More
Read newsYear 5 Blog 1/3/24
Good afternoon parents and carers, We have had another successful week in Year 5. English The children have really enjoyed learning several descriptive techniques ready to use in their writing, including similes, metaphors, personification, noun phrases and adverbial phrase. The children have amazed us with some of their advanced language choices. Well done! Maths Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 1.3.2024
Super skipping This week we took part in a fantastic skipping workshop where we learnt lots of different skills. We had a go at a single and a double bounce then even braved a run and jump on the giant rope! The instructors were very impressed with our determination and resilience. We have been Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 23.02.24
English Do you know how an elephant got its trunk? We found out how a smelly adventure and an encounter with a crocodile led to an elephant finding its nose in our work on Tinga Tinga tales this week. We began our topic by discussing what we liked about the story and who our Read More
Read newsIs it half term already?
The half term after Christmas seems to fly, but the children have worked extremely hard during the last five weeks. We are hoping for drier weather soon so that we can all enjoy the school grounds, but who knows. (We suspect that rain and mud is actually more enjoyable than sunny weather for a Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 09.02.24
Phonics This week the children have revisited the split digraphs: i_e, o_e, and u_e. The focus words this week were: oh and out. Please continue to practise these at home. Maths During our maths sessions, the children have continued to look at addition within 20. The focus this week was doubling. They have worked Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 9.02.24
English We have loved reading George’s Marvellous Medicine. The children thoroughly enjoyed listening and reading along to the story. Yesterday we wrote some fantastic reviews of the story. children wrote about their favourite parts and characters. Perhaps you could try another of Roald Dahl’s books at home? Let us know if you would like Read More
Read newsYear 1 02.02.24
Phonics The children have continued to practise the phase 5 phonemes. This week we have focused on: au, ey, a_e, and e_e. We have looked at the tricky words ‘what‘ and ‘when‘. Please continue to practise reading and writing these tricky words at home. English This week we enjoyed the story ‘Katie and the Read More
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Science This week the children have been exploring adaptation. We have been looking at Charles Darwin’s finches from the Galapagos Islands and finding out why their beaks were different shapes. The children conducted an investigation using a range of ‘beaks’ to find out which was best suited to certain types of food. Please see Read More
Read newsYear 4 Blog 26.1.24
Maths We have continued with our multiplication and division topic in Maths this week, focussing mainly on formal methods of multiplication. We looked at how to multiply 2- and 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number using a column method. Have a look at the video to recap this method. EnglishIn English this week, we Read More
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