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It has been a very busy couple of weeks celebrating the Christian celebration of Christmas. We have used lots of sparkly items and glitter to adorn Christmas tree decorations (you can never have enough sparkle), decorated the Christmas trees with tinsel and baubles,...

A massive thank you to Burges Salmon LLP (a local law firm) who rejuvenated our garden over the summer holidays.   The volunteers weeded, cleared rubbish, cut back bushes, dug holes and cemented poles in the ground, painted, weather proofed, fixed woodwork, swept and...

What an enjoyable day we had at our end of year celebration which had an African Caribbean theme. The day involved drumming and dancing sessions with Mandinka Roots, threading necklaces, face painting, adorning crowns, creating collages, and making fruit kebabs. Thank...

Last week we had some minibeasts visit the School.  Zoolab brought a Giant African Millipede and a Giant African Land Snail which the children were able to touch and handle if they wished.  They also brought a Chilean Rose Tarantula for the children to look at but...

Thank you to The Children’s Kitchen who kindly donated a Wormcity Wormery to the school.  Firstly, we put the coir blocks in a bucket of water to soak and expand to 3 times its size.  Whilst it was rehydrating the children helped to construct the wormery by screwing...

Recently we learnt about the celebration of Lunar/Chinese New Year (Year of the Dragon). We explored how the texture of noodles changed from hard to soft after cooking, looked at Chinese writing and created our own using paint and charcoal, read stories, explored...

Mud, glorious mud!  In fact, if it wasn't wet and muddy enough today we got the pressure washer out to clear the playground of debris.  Mud play offers many benefits for children's development. Here are some of them: Developing children’s sensory skills Connecting...

It has been a very busy couple of weeks celebrating the Christian celebration of Christmas.  We have used lots of sparkly items and glitter to adorn Christmas tree decorations (you can never have enough glitter), decorated the Christmas trees with tinsel and baubles,...

Recently we celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of light.  We made and decorated clay and playdough divas, painted firework pictures, watched information videos, explored artefacts and clothes and decorated our hands with henna. We also created Rangoli patterns...

Finn (Oak Class teacher) has recently started woodwork sessions with the children.  We believe this is a wonderful medium for children to work with and the children are currently building confidence with real tools such hammers and saws. Woodwork has a long history in...

What an enjoyable day we had at our end of year celebration which had an African Caribbean theme. The day involved drumming and dancing sessions with Mandinka Roots, threading necklaces, face painting, adorning crowns, creating collages, making fruit kebabs, painting...

The staff have worked hard to revamp the woodland area recently.  There was great excitement when a delivery of bark came to the school and the children watched as the lorry's crane unloaded the large bags.  The children and staff then used wheelbarrows to transport...

There was great interest a few weeks ago when a set of tiny caterpillars arrived at school.  The children scooped a lump of nutritious caterpillar food into each vial and very, very carefully (using a soft brush) put one caterpillar into each vial.  Whilst in their...