Year 3/4
We have continued learning about the Egyptians
this half term. We have explored mummification
and actually had the chance to mummify our
own Pharaoh. He is now bandaged up and
ready for his after life! We have written
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too. We have been busy designing bread for the
Pharaoh's banquet and we have chosen new
ingredients through taste testing. There are some
interesting combinations to add to the bread basil and cumin, honey and garlic! We are
looking forward to eating it and seeing what we
think about it. The Pharaoh has also
had a problem as he has wanted some
more information to stop his butter
from melting (which is needed for the
bread). The children have found out
the melting point of butter and made
suggestions of places to put it or how to
store it! We have enjoyed our
adventure into Ancient Egypt but now
it is time to move on.
Year 5/6
With the eagerly anticipated build up to this
summer's Olympic Games in Brazil, Year 5/6
have been looking at the global issue currently
facing South America: Zika. We have looked
into the virus and its transmitter
- the Aedes Mosquito. Using
Darwin's 'Survival of the fittest'
theory and our knowledge of
Adaptation, Evolution and the
Physical Geography of South
America within the World's
climate: we have explored the
poignant question - Is the UK
under threat from Zika?
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Back to school
Y6 Science, Music and revolution
KS2 SATs week begins
Last day of term
Sports
Our eldest girls have been super successful this
half term. They entered a fantastic cheerleading
sequence into a citywide competition and
performed brilliantly! The girls football team also
triumphed at a local tournament, beating Valley
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Park and suffering a narrow defeat to
Arbourthorne. Amongst the PE being taught
across school, cycling has been taking place in Y6,
Y3/4 have tried their hand at orienteering and
children in the foundation have been taking part
in some country dancing. The term will culminate
in a celebration of sport through Sports Relief.
Thanks to everyone who has taken
part and donated. We hope to have
raised a fantastic amount for a very
worthy cause.
Forest school
What a wet half-term it has been at Forest
School.
We have had to cope with rain, water logged
and muddy ground and some freezing temperatures. However, the children have still managed
to enjoy themselves in the outdoors.
We have been using tools this half-term. Most
children have used a pair of loppers or secateurs
to size wood to the needed length. The younger
children have made Magic Wands and enjoyed
turning the adults into many different creatures.
Luckily they did kindly return us to human in
the end. The older children having been making
structures, such as the Year 6 group who made
two willow fences.
There has also been enough dry spells to make
fires safely and use the fire to make our own
charcoal. It has taken longer than we thought to
become successful at making it. Some of the
children will be using the fire to cook something
with a little European flavour!
We are all looking forward to the warmer
weather of Spring!
Well done to the 14 playground monitors who have lead, organised and managed playtime activities
for the key stage one children this half term. They enjoyed a visit to ice Sheffield as a big well done!
Spring 2
2016
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Attendance so far this year is 94.9%. Please remember school starts at 8:50. Regular and punctual
attendance is vital if children are to be happy, settled and successful at school. Our school topic this
term has been ‘Location, location, location,’ read on to find what all the classes have been learning
about.
Foundation Stage 2
Foundation Stage 1
It has been another fun filled term for learning
in FS1 this term. We have been reading 'The
little red hen' and enjoyed finding out all about
bread. The children have explored how flour is
made, tasted bread from around the world
and have even baked
their own bread. The
children have also used
puppets and props to
retell the story and make
up their own stories.
This half term in FS2 we have
been enjoying having shark and
chips in our cafe and nursing
wild animals back to health in
our jungle hospital.
We have been developing our sentence writing
this half term and we are getting very good at
remembering our capital letters and full stops!
In our PE sessions we have enjoyed country
dancing and listening to a range of musical
styles.
Year 1
This half term we have continued to find out more about planet Earth through our ‘Location, Location, Location’ topic. We got our passports, packed our bags and set off for Antarctica – the ‘frozen’
continent – with the snail and the whale. When we arrived we visited lots of places, including a volcanic island called Deception Island, where we saw waddling Adelie penguins! We went to the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and conducted a scientific experiment about melting ice. Finally we trekked to
the South Pole and wrote all about our adventures. You can read our super writing in our Creative
Curriculum books. We have been very busy developing lots of new skills in maths too, including telling the time, measuring mass and partitioning 2-digit numbers. We have been observing and measuring the weather in Science, and we're looking forward to some more outdoor learning when the
temperature rises a bit!
Year 2
This half term we enjoyed a trip to the butterfly house. We saw lots of beautiful
butterflies that come from tropical rainforests. We also enjoyed seeing the Ringtailed lemurs. The lemurs jumped onto our heads! Since returning from the
butterfly house we have created information leaflets about ring-tailed lemurs as
well as some lovely artwork.