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Our Heads of Houses had the honour of attending the Wreath Laying Ceremony and Cadet's Parade at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London as part of the St George's Day celebrations, remembering all those who have served our country.  They also attended the service that followed in Westminster Abbey.  It was a very special day and one they will remember for many years.

We were delighted to hear that Pompom and Daisy, the lambs we fostered last term, have settled back in to farm life with their mother & sister!

A really fun way to enhance the children's understanding of classification in Science for Year 3 by playing a game where they had to ask yes/no questions to guess which animals they were.  They had great fun guessing with some questions making them roar with laughter.  They then used their new question asking skills to write their own questions for classification keys.  They found it tricky but rose to the challenge and learnt so much in the process.  Well done children!

Well done to our littlest bunnies for completing their Bunny Hop around the Nursery garden yesterday.  Boing! Boing!  Happy Easter everyone!

An exciting week for Project Goblin as the seats and roll bars have been put together and seatbelts attached.  Once this was done, we were able to have drivers sitting in the cars!  The final challenges are approaching after the Easter holidays - solving a real axle issue and fitting the motor and batteries.  Very exciting!

Year 2 started playing UniHoc this week. Mrs Woodward demonstrated how to hold the stick for fast running & then changing hand position for dribbling. The children then practised dribbling at speed whilst keeping control & remembering to move their feet around the ball. A brilliant start Year 2!

Yay! Pom Pom and Daisy have arrived!  We have been so excited to meet them!  We can't wait to spend the next 4 weeks looking after them, after their mother was unable to, and seeing the children benefit from caring for them. We'll keep you updated on Pom Pom and Daisy's progress and on the many ways the children will learn by caring for them.  We imagine these little bundles of joy will teach the children responsibility, empathy, respect, appreciation of nature and the life cycle, improve their confidence and communication skills and, most likely, teach them about unconditional love!  Lucky us!

Great fun in Pottery Club as we learnt the technique of throwing a pot on the wheel. We had to prepare the clay, then attach it to the centre of the wheel by throwing it with force! We then centred the clay by ‘coning up’ and 'coning down’. After this, we opened up the centre with our thumb (not too deep!) and created a donut shape.  Then we widened the centre and pulled up the walls to create height.  Finally we shaped the lower section and tidied it up before carefully removing it from the wheel with the cheese wire.  We loved learning so many new skills!

With matches cancelled because of the rain, Year 4 headed indoors for a skills session.  The children worked on skills old and new as well as improving their fitness. They learnt how to perform a basketball lay-up, stepped through agility ladders, practiced reversing their stick for hockey, controlled football rebounds, strengthened their core with sit ups and improved their ball handling with netball passing and shooting challenges.  Mrs Woodward was so impressed at how the children all shrugged off their disappointment of their match being cancelled and worked so hard all afternoon.  Well done Y4!