Image of Online Safety: Dealing with traumatic and challenging events
8 Oct

Online Safety: Dealing with traumatic and challenging events

Support children through adversity. This week’s #WakeUpWednesday guide offers compassionate advice to help young people navigate traumatic and challenging events. Download your FREE copy here: https://vist.ly/49nng

Image of Reception: Muddy Monday
8 Oct

Reception: Muddy Monday

Wow! On Monday the children in Reception blew Mrs Wilkinson's and Mrs Thompson's socks off! They walked over 2km around Jacks Key. The children listened to sounds they could hear, looked at what they could see under a bridge and used their imaginations chanting trip trap and the bear hunt story. The children had lots of fun!

Image of Online Safety: EA Sports FC 26
1 Oct

Online Safety: EA Sports FC 26

Kick-off caution! EA FC 26 brings back all the footballing fun – but with potential #OnlineSafety concerns around voice chat, in-game purchases and scams, our #WakeUpWednesday guide gives trusted adults the full picture. Download your FREE copy here https://vist.ly/48tux

Image of Reception - PSHE - Hand hygiene
1 Oct

Reception - PSHE - Hand hygiene

This week in PSHE we have been learning all about how important it is to keep your hands clean and how germs pass onto different people and objects. We used different coloured glitter on our hands and practiced hand shakes and ‘high fives’ then touching objects and pieces of fruit to see how the germs mixed and spread. We then put glitter in a bowl of water and added a drop of soap to disperse the glitter and demonstrate how the soap kills the germ and why it is important to wash our hands with soap and water.

Image of Year 4 Picture News - Primary Park Run
29 Sep

Year 4 Picture News - Primary Park Run

In our class worship we shared Picture News which introduced the new initiative of a ‘Primary Parkrun’ which aims to bring junior running events closer to primary schools. It is inclusive and not just about fitness, but also about helping children build friendships, confidence and life skills in their local community. We then moved onto looking at community and what the bible tells us about the importance of getting together as a community. Christians believe service to others is very important, because it helps demonstrate love for God and others. We loved really like the quote from Phil Jackson who is an NBA coach as we really believe it to be true. ‘The strength of. Team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team’

Image of Year 3- Science- Learning About UV Light and Sun Protection
29 Sep

Year 3- Science- Learning About UV Light and Sun Protection

Today, the Year 3 students became scientists as they carried out an investigation exploring the light that comes from the sun and how to stay safe in it. They tested the effect of sunlight on ultraviolet beads using different sun creams: SPF 15, SPF 30, SPF 50, and no sun cream at all. Our buzzing scientists made predictions about what might happen to happen to the beads coated in sun cream and without. The investigation used ultraviolet (UV) beads, which are special beads that change colour when exposed to ultraviolet light. This makes them a great tool for demonstrating the effects of UV radiation, the type of light that can cause sunburn and skin damage. Sun cream contains chemicals that absorb or reflect UV radiation, preventing it from reaching the skin. The Sun Protection Factor (SPF) number indicates how well the sun cream protects against UVB rays, the primary cause of sunburn. A higher SPF means greater protection. They then carefully recorded their observations, and thought scientifically about the results. They finally wrote conclusions explaining why it is important to use sun cream with a high SPF value to protect our skin. The higher the SPF value of the sun cream, the more effectively it blocks UV radiation. This visual and hands-on demonstration reinforces the importance of using sun cream with a high SPF to protect our skin from the harmful effects of the sun. The experiment serves as a powerful reminder that UV rays are always present in sunlight and that protection is essential, even on cloudy days

Image of Online Safety: Youth Violence
24 Sep

Online Safety: Youth Violence

1 in 4 young people in the UK are affected by youth violence – our #WakeUpWednesday guide with advice from the Ben Kinsella Trust offers expert advice to help parents and teachers keep children safe. Download your FREE copy here https://vist.ly/47wwn

Image of Year 5 - PSHE
23 Sep

Year 5 - PSHE

In PSHE, we studied the factors that make positive relationships. We discussed what a positive relationship looks like and how trust, honesty, respect, fun, kindness, and safety are key ingredients for a ‘relationship cake recipe.’

Image of Reception: Muddy Monday
22 Sep

Reception: Muddy Monday

The children in Reception class had a fabulous first Muddy Monday session. They built dens, created bug houses and enjoyed making potions together. They showed super team work skills and their imaginations were running wild. Well done Reception!

Image of Year 1 PSHE- Feelings
18 Sep

Year 1 PSHE- Feelings

Today in our PSHE lesson we identified different feelings. We acted out how we might look when feeling happy, sad, angry etc. We also discussed how our body reacts when feeling emotions- when we are happy we smile, when we are sad we may cry, when we are angry we can feel hot. Year 1 then suggested different people we can talk to when we are feeling emotions such as parents, siblings, teachers, grandparents, aunties and uncles and our friends.

Image of Blessed with beautiful views in Year 4
18 Sep

Blessed with beautiful views in Year 4

Today, Year 4 took some time to admire what beautiful views we have from our classroom window, especially when rainbows appear! A rainbow is often a sign of hope, the beauty after the storm or good fortune and this led us wonderfully into our lunchtime prayers.

Image of Reception- PSHE- Creating our unique name labels
17 Sep

Reception- PSHE- Creating our unique name labels

During our PSHE lesson we discussed how we are the same and how we are different and even if we like different things that’s still fine, we can still be friends and play together because we are all unique.