Picture News Live Assembly with Paralympian Stef Reid
Wow! What an incredibly inspiring morning at our live Picture News worship assembly with Paralympian Stef Reid! 🏅 We learned so much about Stef's incredible journey. She has loved sports from a young age, but after a life-changing accident left her with only one leg, she had to overcome huge challenges. She didn't let that stop her—using a special running blade, she went on to compete at the Paralympics! If that wasn't amazing enough, after retiring from athletics, she took up ice figure skating! ⛸️ What an absolute inspiration and a powerful message to never give up. 💪 We also celebrated the Variety Disability Sports Awards 2026 and explored how Variety, the Children’s Charity, helps remove barriers so more disabled children can participate in the sports they love. 🌟 Another massive highlight was watching a mind-blowing video showing people with different disabilities doing amazing things—from driving cars and playing the guitar and piano with their feet, to fiercely competing in wheelchair sports! 🚗🎸🏀 Thank you to everyone who shared their ideas and asked such brilliant questions today. Let's keep celebrating the power of inclusive sport! 🙌✨
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Reception: RE
This week in RE, as part of our "I am Special" unit, we read the wonderful story Clever Cub and the Case of the Worries. Inspired by Phil the Philosopher, who reminds us how important it is to express our emotions, the children spent time talking about moments when they have felt worried. Georgie shared that she felt worried about her leg when she fell over, Liliana talked about feeling worried when her sister was poorly, and Alissa mentioned that she sometimes feels worried at nighttime. We then reflected on who we can trust and turn to when we feel this way: Everley said God, Matthew said Daddy, and Amelia said Jesus. Expanding on who we can speak to, Noah mentioned Daddy, Louie shared Grandpa, and Everley noted that a teacher is always there to help. To support the children moving forward, we have introduced a class Worry Monster! The children can tell their worries to the monster, who safely locks them away to help everyone feel better. They absolutely loved sharing their worries with our new helper this afternoon!
Keep Fit Club
We had a fantastic time during our final Keep Fit Club session today! The children showed incredible determination as they worked hard to beat their lap scores from last week, truly giving it their absolute best effort. During our session, we discussed the importance of staying active and brainstormed fun ways to keep fit at home. The children had so many great ideas, sharing that they enjoy walking their dogs, riding their bikes, going to dance classes, and going for runs. Although today marked the end of this term's club, I hope they stay inspired and continue to keep fit and active at home!
Year 1 Art: Using Shapes To Make Faces
Year 1 tried really hard in their Art today. They had to look back at their school picture and their tracing from the previous week to help them in understanding the shapes of their faces. The children had to make organic shapes with different coloured card to make their faces. This activity helped them to look closer and practise drawing organic shapes. The end results were really effective and they did a brilliant job!
Year 2 PSHE: Keeping Safe Online
Year 2 started by discussing what online means. We thought about computers, iPads, phones and the internet. The children shared that they use the internet for playing games, listening to music, watching Youtube, learning and researching. All of the children play games online. Some online games can be fun, creative and logical such as Minecraft or designing games. However, some games can be scary, violent, have bad language or have an online chat feature. We looked through different games on Roblox to decide if they were suitable or not. After this, we thought of some extra ways to keep private and safe online, such as not sharing our personal information (names, ages, address, school).
Year 3 - Mystery Reader
The Year 3 class loved listening to Lydia’s mum reading them one of her favourite books on Friday afternoon. The Day the Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers is an engaging and colourful picture back that captivated our children. We would like to say a huge thank you to Sarah for her dramatic reading. We loved it!
Year 1&2- Lunchtime Games Club
Well done to our Year 1 and 2 children for having lots of fun, taking turns and cheering each other on. So lovely to see everyone enjoying the games together! 😊🎉
Year 2 Art- Clay Tiles
Today in Art, Year 2 continued developing their clay skills by creating and decorating their very own clay tiles. The children began by rolling out their clay using a rolling pin before carefully cutting around a rectangular template to create the shape of their tile. They then explored different techniques to decorate their work. Using the **score and slip technique**, they added clay decorations to their tiles, as well as experimenting with a variety of objects to create interesting patterns, textures and imprints. Next lesson will be their **final clay session**, where they will bring together all the skills they have developed to design and create their very own **clay tile inspired by a house**. We can’t wait to see their ideas take shape! 🏠✨
Year 1 Mystery Reader
To celebrate our Give Like Dolly Day and the National Year of Reading, every class has a special visit from a mystery reader. Year 1 had a very exciting mystery reader today, Alfie’s mum! She read two amazing books. The first was written by Dolly Parton, I Am A Rainbow. This book celebrated all the feelings that we have and how we can act when we feel tough feelings. The second book was Supertato: Night Of The Living Veg, which the children loved. Thank you Amy for visiting our class!
Little Gardeners Club: Nature Art
Little Gardeners Club had an amazing session today, creating their own nature art. We started the session by collecting natural resources such as leaves and twigs. Then, back in the classroom the children created nature masks and printed leaves using paint. They also used lots of imagination to create some fantastic art pieces such as mermaids, lions and deer using the leaves and twigs in their designs.
Year 5 - Money Skills
Miss Burnside from Debt Aware visited the class on Monday afternoon to introduce the children to managing money. They started off by discussing the difference between a want and a need by considering how essential to living different products and services are. Then the class considered borrowing and the difference between good and bad debt before identifying money saving tips such as turning lights off when not in use.
Year 2-Mystery Reader
To celebrate our Give Like Dolly Day and the National Year of Reading, Year 2 had a very special visit from Luna’s mummy, who is also one of our wonderful Governors. She read Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers — what a beautiful choice! The story shared some very important messages about being kind, caring for our planet, and remembering that we are never alone in this world. A huge thank you to Caterina for taking the time to come in and visit our class. 🌍✨📖
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