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Visit by Stuart Reid Author, by Mrs Harris
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 10:34pm
Award winning author Stuart Reid visited school this morning to talk about his published books! Lots of children got involved, it was funny, engaging and loud! All the staff and children had an amazing morning. We loved welcoming Stuart into our school, it has really got us excited in preparation for World Book Day!
Attendance Ambassador Kiki-Rae stamping passports!, by Mrs Harris
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 10:04pm
Kiki-Rae was busy stamping lots of attendance passports from last week.
A great start Year 3!!
F1 Pancakes, by Mrs Harris
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 9:58pm
Miss Massie's fabulous F1 children had a blast mixing flour and flipping pancakes for Shrove Tuesday! A fun, hands-on way to learn and celebrate. 🥞✨ #ShroveTuesday #PancakeFun #LearningThroughPlay
Y2T Panakes!!, by Mrs Harris
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 8:59pm
Here are some lovely snaps of Y2LT enjoying their pancakes today, served by our very own pancake princesses, Miss Evans and Mrs Mayes! A flipping good time was had by all!
Year 3K Rocks Workshop, by Mrs Harris
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 8:52pm
Year 3K had a fantastic time investigating rocks with Mr Ravenscroft from Hi-impact today!
We used our scientific enquiry skills to carry out 5 different investigations.
1. Examining rocks with a magnifying glass and talking about what we could see.
2. A Scratch test: We attempted to scratch the rocks with tools to see how hard/soft they were.
3. Absorbency test: We used a digital scale to weigh the rock before and after dipping in water to measure how much was absorbed.
4. Acid test: We used a pipette to drop hydrochloric acid onto the rock and observe what happened.
5. Fossils hunt! We looked through the fossil boxes to identify fossils and then classified them by type.
A brilliant way to start our new science topic. Fantastic work Year 3!
Y3M Rock Workshop, by Mrs Harris
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 8:39pm
Year 3M had a fantastic time at their 'Rocks' workshop with Mr. Ravenscroft. They examined rocks with magnifying glasses, tested their hardness with scratch tests, checked absorbency by weighing them before and after adding water, and experimented with hydrochloric acid. They also went on a fossil hunt to identify different types of fossils. The day even included a pancake break—because even scientists need a treat! A fun and educational day for all.
Y2 Space Crash!, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 5:48pm
🔭🪐☄️🛸Oh no!!🚀👽🧑🚀👾
On Wednesday a spaceship crashed onto our playground. Year 2 discovered the remains.
We later found out an alien called 'Beegu' was missing. We wrote Lost posters using our Character Descriptions and put them around the school.
🔭🪐☄️🛸Please let us know if you find her!! 🚀👽🧑🚀👾
Sports Stars of the Week!, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 5:00pm
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Well done this week to...
If you have any exciting sporting news from the past week please send it to us!
We will upload our Sports Stars at the end of each week, so keep an eye out!
Well done and thank you,
Miss Wise
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Exciting News, by Mrs Harris
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 8:38pm
🌟 WE DID IT! 🌟
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have WON the Tesco Community Grant #StrongerStarts 🎉🎉
Thanks to your amazing support, we’ve been awarded £1,500 to invest in our project at the Sunshine Sensory Hub!☀️💛
More details coming soon on how this will make a big difference.
A huge THANK YOU❤️to everyone who dropped a little blue token 💙 into our box – your support means the world to us! 🙌👏
Stay tuned for updates! 🎊 #thankyou #CommunitySupport #TescoStrongerStarts
Skeletons with Year 3K, by Mrs Harris
Date: 8th Feb 2025 @ 3:33pm
Year 3K had a fun afternoon learning about the human skeleton! We learnt that the human body is made up of 206 bones! We borrowed a body (thanks Locklyn!) and labelled some key bones such as the skull, rib cage, spine, pelvis and femur. We learnt that the skeleton helps to protect our organs, helps our bodies to move and provides support.
Y2 Mars Rover Workshop, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:50pm
Wow!!! Thank you to Hi Impact for such a hands-on, exciting workshop!
We learnt all about how to use coding to create robots and set instructions for it to follow.
Y3M Ancient Egyptian Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:40pm
Harper has been working extremely hard at home getting lots of amazing facts all about Ancient Egypt and King Tut! Thank you for sharing Harper. 🇪🇬
Y3M Ancient Egyptian Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:37pm
Harleigh brought in some interesting artefacts from Egypt. We were all fascinated by the length of the River Nile! Thank you for sharing Harleigh. 🇪🇬
Children’s Mental Health Week, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 1:05pm
🌹💐🌸🌺Know Yourself to Grow Yourself🌷🌻🌼🪷
Year 1 enjoyed learning about how to look after their minds, we discussed what makes us happy, what makes us sad and how we can use breathing to help calm ourselves down!
We loved painting our own flowers to remind us how we can grow!
🌹💐🌸🌺Know Yourself to Grow Yourself🌷🌻🌼🪷
Sports Stars of the Week!, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:09pm
A few weeks worth of Sports Stars...sorry!!
Well done this week to...
Lucca (Y1) for receiving Player of the Match in his football match AND Star of the Match!
Kian (Y1) for receiving a certificate for being his session's most improved player at football!
Theo (Y1) for receiving a trophy for scoring LOTS of goals!
Isamay (Y6) for winning her Muay Thai Competition in Durham!
Joining Together for Assembly, by Mrs Harris
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 10:51am
There is no better way to start a new week than joining together for a gospel assembly. Thank you to Year 4 for helping to lead this week's assembly. 
Hi-Impact Robot and Coding Workshop, by Mrs Schultz
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 4:54pm
Year 1 had a robot and coding workshop this week. They used iPads to control a small robot encased in a ball, called Sphero. They could create block codes to program a bear to move around a map and played a coding game called Codeapillar. They spent some time creating a code using different coloured mats, then sat a car on top to see what happened. They had to find out which colour programmed what direction. They quickly realised that green meant 'go' and 'red' was to stop the car. The other colours turned the car left or right. They had so much fun and couldn't wait to have a go of every activity on offer. Special thanks goes to Hi-Impact who provided all the resources and teaching for this session.
Lunar New Year, by Mrs Schultz
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 4:06pm
This week, Year 1 have celebrated the Lunar New Year. We watched a video that explained how and why people celebrate the Lunar New Year and what animal represents the 2025 New Year- this year is the year of the snake! The children could then choose from a selection of activities to help us to celebrate. We made and decorated lanterns, practised writing Mandarin characters for the numbers, made snakes and coloured some posters. The children had a great time and asked for us to do the same next week! Since the Lunar New Year is celebrated over 15 days, they may have their wish granted! One child brought in some rice crackers and Chinese sweets for his class to share too!
Year 6 Art, by Mrs Harris
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:33pm
Yeat 6H Art
Year 6 have recently been learning all about the famous artist Frida Kahlo. In preparation for their final piece of art, a self portrait using Frida’s style as inspiration, children have today enjoyed following a tutorial of ‘How to draw a face’. Children have sketched some excellent pieces and are ready to make a start on their final piece.
Pie Day!, by Mrs Harris
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:21pm
Pie day in the Sunshine Room! We loved celebrating pie day by making our own very special cream pie. It had strawberries, sprinkles and marshmallows. We found the squirty cream very funny!
Celebrating in the Sunshine Room, by Mrs Harris
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:14pm
The Sunshine Room has been loving celebrating Chinese New Year. We enjoyed fortune cookies, we all have good luck coming to us! We have also been making lanterns with lots of different colours!
Special Lunar New Year Lunch, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:55pm
Happy Lunar New Year! 🏮🎉🧧
Today marks the start of the Year of the Snake, a symbol of wisdom, intuition, and elegance. We're celebrating with a delicious traditional lunch and embracing the joy, traditions, and togetherness that make this festival so special.
We’ve also learned to say, “Gung Hei Fat Choi!” Wishing everyone happiness, prosperity, and a wonderful year ahead! 🐍
#ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheSnake #SpringFestival
#LunarNewYear2025
Celebration of Lunar New Year in Y3M, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:35pm
Year 3 celebrated Lunar New Year by learning all about how Chinese people prepare for the New Year and all of the traditional things they do to celebrate.
Chloe had kindly brought in some fortune cookies for us all to share and with Scarlet, they explained to everyone what they are and what special surprise to find inside of them!
We then decorated and cut out our snakes - a symbol of wisdom, intuition and elegance.
Year of the Snake in F2, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:19pm
The children within Mrs McLaren's class have had such a fun afternoon learning all about Chinese New Year. We were able to write our ages using Chinese writing, we built dragons and lanterns using Lego. We also enjoyed making Chinese lanterns using our cutting skills. It is the year of the snake 🐍 and so we all worked to make snake puppets. We had a great afternoon ☺️ 👏👏
Year 3 Jubilee 2025, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:06pm
Friday 24th January was Jubilee 2025 Launch Day! Year 3 took part in a class Jubilee assembly to introduce the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. We reflected on what we can do this year to be pilgrims of hope for our local and global family.
