Image of Reception - Spectacular Space!
26 Jun

Reception - Spectacular Space!

This week, Reception have been on a mission to outer space! We started the week by reading the book ‘meet the planets’ to learn the names of the planets in our solar system. We then worked hard to complete the space related challenges in the classroom, such as making shape rockets in the maths area, creating sparkling space pictures in creative and labelling the planets in the writing area. The children have also loved exploring our small world space zone in class. What a space-tastic week we’ve had! It has been out of this world!

Image of Year 5 - LBQ
26 Jun

Year 5 - LBQ

Today in Year 5, the children took part in an interactive LBQ (Learning by Questions) session, where they focused on converting between centimetres and metres and vice versa. This engaging activity allowed them to practise their understanding of measurement in a fun and responsive way, receiving instant feedback to help correct misconceptions and deepen their learning. The children revised the relationship between centimetres and metres (100 cm = 1 m) and applied this knowledge to solve a range of problems, including word problems, reasoning challenges and real-life measurement scenarios. They demonstrated increasing confidence in switching between units, identifying when to multiply or divide by 100 depending on the direction of conversion.

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26 Jun

Year 6 R.E

In R.E, Year 6 have been looking at Christianity and Islam, comparing the ways in which both religions describe God. The children watched videos and researched Muslim names for Allah. They discovered that there are actually a lot of similarities between how the two religions regard their God.

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26 Jun

Year 6 Maths

In maths, year 6 have been recapping identifying and estimating angles, as well as finding missing angles. They had to combine all of their knowledge on angles and apply it to solving some tricky challenges.

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26 Jun

Year 6 English

Year 6 have been tasked to write a text to persuade the Y5s to attend the London trip next year. This week they have focused on one particular landmark - the graffiti tunnel - and used expanded noun phrases and prepositional phrases to create descriptions of the tunnel that would persuade the year 5 pupils to go and see it for themselves next year!

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26 Jun

PSHE - Growing and Changing in Year 4

As part of our PSHE session we have been looking at how our body changes during puberty, what parts of the body are the same for girls and boys and what parts are different. We also read Hair in funny places by Babette Cole and Where Willy Went. The children have really matured over the course of the last few sessions and it’s great to see them ask such fantastic questions surrounding this sensitive topic area.

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26 Jun

Year 4 PE - Quad Kids Athletics

In our PE session we focused on Quad Kids which is an athletics event. It includes 4 elements- a 400m run, a 60m sprint, mini vortex throw and a standing long jump. The children worked hard to develop their speed, agility and quickness, listening carefully on how to improve their performances.

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26 Jun

Year 2 - Telling the Time

This week, our Year 2 class has been making fantastic progress in learning to tell the time! We started by mastering o'clock and half past, which the children picked up incredibly quickly – they were amazing! We then moved on to quarter past and quarter to, and again, they've really shown their understanding of these times too. For the past couple of days, we've been tackling telling time in 5-minute intervals. This has presented a bit more of a challenge, especially when figuring out the time to the next hour. But we're going to keep practicing, and soon, they'll be able to tell the time no matter where the hands on the clock are pointing!

Image of Year 5 - Figurative Language
25 Jun

Year 5 - Figurative Language

In Year 5, the children continued their work on the novel Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans, an exciting and humorous story that blends modern life with Greek mythology. Building on their understanding of the plot and characters, the children focused on creating vivid setting descriptions inspired by key scenes in the book. They explored how authors use figurative language—such as similes, metaphors, personification and powerful adjectives—to bring settings to life and engage the reader’s imagination. Pupils then applied these techniques in their own writing, crafting rich, atmospheric descriptions of locations such as Stonehenge at twilight, the Underworld or even scenes from the chaotic life of the main character, Elliot.

Image of Year 4 - Linking Schools: End of Year Celebration
25 Jun

Year 4 - Linking Schools: End of Year Celebration

What a brilliant way to finish our Linking Schools journey! We all had great fun in Year 4 on the Schools Linking Celebration Zoom. We reminisced about all the enriching activities we took part in this year and shared some of our favourite moments, such as playing the whiteboard game, meeting St Matthew’s and making new friends. We have learned so much about ourselves and who we are, as well as learning about our link class. Tolerance, respect and friendship were definitely key themes as we realised that, although we were different to our new friends in many ways, we also had so much in common. There is just one more step for us to complete, which is our social action project. After collating ideas about improving God’s world, we voted for the most popular idea and decided we would act on it - writing to residents of a care home. Look out for more news about our happy post soon.

Image of Year 4 - French: Vacances
25 Jun

Year 4 - French: Vacances

Today’s French lesson in Year 4 was all about ‘les activités de vacances’. The children learned some new vocabulary about things we might do while on holiday and then they shared their opinions about these activities in French, using the familiar vocabulary: j’adore, j’aime, je n’aime pas, je déteste.

Image of The W.O.W. Group - Prayer 24/7
25 Jun

The W.O.W. Group - Prayer 24/7

Three of our W.O.W. group members accompanied Mrs Araujo up to the prayer tent this morning. Children from each class have been creating bunting, reflecting on times when they talk to God, and we wanted to display their lovely work inside the tent for all of the visitors to see. Whilst there, the children took part in some of the engaging prayer activities set up in the tent. They thoroughly enjoyed drawing, painting and doing jigsaws, but I think their favourite activity was writing a sin on a post-it and then using the sin shredder to shred it to pieces.