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Class 3 are busy reading The Explorer by Katherine Randell at the moment and lots of their independent writing has be done around the theme of rainforests.  Here, the children had to choose and research an animal that lives in the rainforest.  From their research their task was to produce a non…

Class 2 are becoming coding champions. Today’s challenge was to make 3 sprites play different sounds, move or change costumes and change the backdrop! Quite a challenge! The children chose their own challenge level based on how confident they felt. Great leaders of your learning class 2. 
 

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Every Monday begins with a focused handwriting session in class 2. We learn a join and then try hard to apply this, and the others that we have already focused on, in any writing that we do. Keep up the good work class 2 and there will soon be more pen licenses given out. 
 

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Key stage 1 have been investigating the question, “What does a plant need to grow?” They have looked at the conditions needed for a plant to grow and have set up their own investigation using a bean seed. The children will now spend the next week observing their seed and interpreting and…

Reception have had a super morning visiting the Walled Gardens. They have been exploring the four seasons in class and learning about the different signs that we are in a particular season. On their walk they identified signs of winter and spring. They did such a good job that they deserved a…

Mr Wynn brought a group of year 5/6 children over from St Mary’s for a football and netball friendly competition.   It was great to see so many children having the opportunity to represent their school.  The honours were shared as St Mary’s won the football match while the Howard girls were…

Key stage 1 have finished their fun computer programming unit of work. Today’s lesson had the children finding different routes to get to a destination, debugging any errors along the way and then finally having an additional challenge of creating routes with a stop off point on the way. What…

A proud moment for our school, being presented with our fundraising total for our Rudolph Run.

We are overjoyed with the amount raised - thank you to all who contributed and a massive well done to our Rudolph runners. It is fantastic to be able to support an important local charity.

Fantastic work in science this afternoon investigating whether materials were conductors or insulators. We recorded results and used these to explain the science behind our findings. Ask us at home which materials are conducting.

Class 1 have explored the question, ‘What are the features of fruit?’ They have researched to find out where fruit grows and how long it takes to grow. Observed to see what the outer skin and inside of fruits look like, including finding the seeds. Then finally, they had great fun trying the…

During our forest school sessions we have started looking at winter birds in Britain and tried to identify them.  We have also had a go at weaving birds nests which proved quite tricky. The children have shown lots of interest in participating in the big bird watch, so it will be interesting to…

Today in science we were making predictions about circuits.

We had to use our prior knowledge to predict what would happen if we added an additional bulb to the circuit. We then used this knowledge to make predictions about other circuits.