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February 2023

  • 28/02/23

    Year 1 Visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

    Year 1 had a fantastic visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park!
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  • 26/02/23

    Partake Theatre: 'London's Burning'

    Year 2 had a visit from Partake Theatre on Wednesday to start our new vehicle ‘London’s Burning’. The children and adults had an amazing morning!
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  • 25/02/23

    DT: "Can I Take your Order?"

    What a FANTASTIC Design and Technology lesson we had to complete the outcome to our vehicle – “Can I take your order?” Everyone remembered why we needed to stay clean and have good hygiene around food and its preparation. The children talked about the techniques of preparing and...
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  • 24/02/23

    Pancake Day in Nursery

    The nursery children have had lots of fun learning about Pancake Day. We started the day with a story called ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’ and learnt that to make his pancakes correctly he needed to follow a recipe and use the ingredients of flour, eggs and milk. We had a go at making our o...
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  • 24/02/23

    Making Murals at Mansfield Museum

    One of our Y6 children, Layla was selected by Mansfield Museum to create mural as part of an art exhibition. They saw her previous artwork shared on the school FB and got in touch to ask if she’d like to be involved in the project. She spent the day at Mansfield Museum this week and has kindly...
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  • 15/02/23

    Smashing Saxons in Year 4

    As part of our Smashing Saxons Vehicle, Year 4 have created some Anglo-Saxon style crosses. We looked at a range of artefacts from the period, selected key features and discussed the materials that would likely be used to create them at the time. We discussed why crosses would have been significant...
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  • 13/02/23

    Year 3 Visit St Mary's

    Year 3 had a fantastic visit to St. Mary’s church last week to support our R.E. work. Having learnt about certain pieces of furniture that are special in the church, it was great to hear pupils recalling their knowledge whilst discovering more facts. They had some great questions to ask Helen...
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  • 12/02/23

    Yoga Bugs for Mental Health Awareness Week

    Nursery took part in Yoga Bugs on Tuesday as part of Mental Health Awareness week. This was an online activity with schools across the country taking part. We enjoyed going on a space adventure to move our bodies in different ways to copy the moves. It was a great activity for our mental health as i...
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  • 08/02/23

    Y6 Visit to Veolia

    This week, Y6 attended Veolia for a workshop based on recycling. We discovered what happens to the rubbish that we put in our recycling bin and how it is sorted at the centre into recycling. We completed a quiz and were really competitive! Did you know that juice cartons, fruit punnets and p...
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  • 06/02/23

    Taskmaster Challenge for Mental Health Week

    Day 1 Taskmaster Challenge This week is Children’s Mental Health Week – 6th – 12th February. Today’s challenge was to create a rainbow. 3JB worked really well as a team to collect the colours of the rainbow from items around the classroom. We then created one as a cla...
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  • 05/02/23

    Free Verse Poetry in Year 3

    Year 3 have been reading, planning, writing and performing this week. We have used ‘free verse poetry’ to tell a story of the foods we love just like Michael Rosen. He has inspired the children to be more creative and use more imaginary in their writing. Watching how he performs has h...
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  • 05/02/23

    Capacity in Nursery

    In maths, Nursery have been looking at capacity. We filled containers and described how much water was in them using the words ‘full’, ‘half full’ and ‘empty’
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February 2023