This week Nursery engaged wonderfully with their first traditional tale of the year: ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’, We practised retelling it, and used blocks and instruments to accompany the different parts of the…
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Year 3: Musical Maestros
This week in music, Year 3 started their journey towards becoming glockenspiel maestros. They have been learning how to read sheet music, and put this knowledge to the test when they performed their first piece…
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Welcome to Week 2! We’ve had another busy week in Pearl and White Class, where we introduced our theme for this half term, ‘Me and My Family’. This week the children have spent some time…
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BusyThings is offering free resources this summer for ALL new starters. BusyThings is offering your new starters FREE access to 100s of fun learning activities this summer to help you give your new intake the…
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In Music during the last few weeks, Year 5 have been doing a unit of work on the djembe, a type of drum from West Africa. The djembe drum is shaped like a goblet and…
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The children were shocked to see nappies in our classroom this week! In Science, we conducted experiments to test the absorbency of different nappies. The children discussed how they could make this a fair test…
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The children arrived on Monday to find a basket of very exotic-looking fruit. They discovered that the fruit came from Africa, and belonged to Handa from our story, ‘Handa’s Surprise’. We investigated the fruit by…
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Pearl Class started their final summer term with an exciting new theme : ‘A Taste of the World’. We arrived in our class on Monday to find a huge inflatable ball which we learnt was…
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Welcome back to Summer 2 and what a great first week back we have had! This week in Music, Year 5 have been continuing to develop their ukulele skills and they sound AMAZING. The ukulele…
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For the past few weeks, Year 5 have become avid music historians. They have learned about three composers from the Romantic Era: Amy Beach, Clara Schumann, and Fanny Mendelssohn. After a few lessons of diligent…
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