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• Friday 21 February 2025 Year One STEM 2025 Year One have had a brilliant STEM fortnight, from making bogey bottles and slime to visits from Zoolab and Professor Brainstorm.
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Reception STEM Week 2 Wow! Reception have had an action-packed week filled with exciting experiences. From meeting amazing creatures with Zoolab to witnessing mind-blowing science with Professor Brainstorm, curiosity and excitement were everywhere!
• Thursday 20 February 2025 STEMgineers in Year 2! STEM Open Day
• Thursday 20 February 2025 Nursery's visit from the mounted police
• Monday 17 February 2025 Year 3 STEM Visitor - DRONES In Year Three, we had the exciting opportunity to welcome Jason Magee to our school to share his expertise on drones. He brought a variety of fascinating models, from quadcopters to hexacopters, and our enthusiasm was palpable as we gathered to see these impressive machines up close!
• Monday 17 February 2025 Year 3 STEM Dress up! Our Year 3 students have embraced the excitement of our STEM fortnight with a fantastic Star Wars theme! The children showcased their creativity by dressing up as their favourite Star Wars characters, adding a fun flair to our activities.
• Friday 14 February 2025 Year 4 - STEM Witches and wizards have had a magical first week of STEM. They have used their capacity skills to mix magical ingredients into potions. They used spaghetti and marshmallows to construct snitch protectors (a structure which had to hold a crème egg) All children began to create their mandrake silencer. We have seen many wonderful designs with a variety of 3D shapes used. Sound proofing next next!
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Reception STEM Week 1 What an exciting week in Reception! After Evil Pea announced he had captured Supertato and taken him to a desert island, Reception swiftly set about designing and building boats to rescue Supertato. They have conducted floating and sinking experiments, measured amounts and lengths, written numerous wanted posters for the ever elusive Evil Pea and used DT joins to make cardboard traps.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Baking in Y2 - STEM As part of STEM fortnight in Y2, children have been busy baking their own ‘Banana Oatie Energy Bite’.
• Monday 10 February 2025 MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU And we’re off! Year 3 STEM kicked off with an exciting message from Yoda, explaining our mission to help the Rebel Alliance defeat the Dark Side. Our challenge? Designing and building a landing pad for the drones used in battle!
• Friday 7 February 2025 Children's Mental Health Week 2025 This week, we were delighted to have taken part in Children’s Mental Health Week 2025, joining schools across the country in exploring this year’s theme: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself. Understanding who we are—our emotions, strengths, and values—helps us to build resilience, form strong relationships, and navigate life’s ups and downs with confidence.
• Friday 7 February 2025 Year 4 - Hindu Visitor This week Year 4 had a visit from Kirtida Richardson who talked to them about her Hindu faith. They were able to ask first hand all those questions they had after learning about Hinduism this term. Kirtida also performed some music, which prompted a range of emotions!
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Engineers in Reception To lead into STEM, Reception read 'Rosie Revere Engineer' this week and learnt about the importance of making a plan before building. Children drew designs of their inventions before making them using junk modelling materials. They talked about how they would follow their plan.
• Thursday 6 February 2025 Y2 Islamic Workshop Today Y2 welcomed the Islamic Diversity Centre into classrooms. Children shared their knowledge of Islam and learnt more about the life of a Muslim including The Five Pillars. This was a great opportunity to ask questions to our visitors!
• Wednesday 5 February 2025 Wellbeing Wednesday Today children came to school in their PE kit for Wellbeing Wednesday, part of our activities for this year's Children's Mental Health Week. Children took part in a wide range of wellbeing activities from preparing and sharing a snack to spending time at the Spa.
• Tuesday 4 February 2025 Children's Mental Health Week in Year 2
• Tuesday 4 February 2025 Y3 Magnets! In their science lesson, children explored magnetism by designing and creating magnetic racing games. Working in pairs or small groups, they built a racetrack from cardboard and attached a paperclip to a small race car. Using a bar magnet under the track, they discovered how magnetic forces move objects without direct contact.
• Friday 31 January 2025 Year 4 - Chagall Roosters As part of Year 4’s Art topic studying Marc Chagall, we created cockerels using coloured paper and oil pastels. Children created intricate patterns within the feathers and mixed colours using finger blending. Great work!
• Friday 31 January 2025 Big Bird Watch in Reception This week Reception took part in the RSPB's Big Bird Watch. They began the week by learning key facts about common garden birds and identifying different bird song.
• Thursday 30 January 2025 Full of Beans Over the last two days, children in KS1 and KS2 have been working with John Paul from Full of Beans during PE lessons.
• Wednesday 29 January 2025 Blindfolded Jellyfish - Y2 This week, in our Movement Lab sessions, Year 2 had lots of fun playing ‘Blindfolded Jellyfish’. One child (or Mr Speed!) was blindfolded and became a jellyfish with long tentacles. In teams, children had to think about how to run, jump and dodge the stinging tentacles of the jellyfish. If they managed to pass without being stung, they collected a piece of treasure to take back to their group. The group with the most treasure won!
• Wednesday 29 January 2025 The Reading Rangers visit Cogito Books Sele First were lucky enough to receive £150 as part of a History competition to spend on History texts from Cogito Books in Hexham.
• Tuesday 28 January 2025 Traditional Tales - The Three Little Pigs It felt like STEM came early for Year One this week, as they were tasked to design and make houses for the Three Little Pigs.
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Nursery 16.1.25
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Nursery
• Thursday 23 January 2025 Y2 Alien Poetry This week, in English lessons, Year 2 have been using their descriptions and images of aliens to create poetry. The children investigated different types of poems and explored different poetic features.
• Wednesday 22 January 2025 Year 4 - Fractions In Year 4 we have started our fractions topic. We understand that a fraction is part of a whole and have learnt how to find fractions of shapes. Today we focused on equivalent fractions. We focused on a method which helped us to use multiplication and division to create equivalent fractions.
• Wednesday 22 January 2025 Gingerbread Men This week, Year One have been baking gingerbread. After reading the traditional tale on Monday, our tummies were rumbling for some gingerbread biscuits!
• Friday 17 January 2025 Bees! This week we had a visit from Mr Garlick who came to talk about bees! He told us lots of interesting facts about bees, including that there could be 70’000 in one hive! We’ve been looking at bees as the main pollinator in Geography and that a lot of food around the world is dependent on them.
• Thursday 16 January 2025 Penguins in Reception Continuing their adventure into frozen worlds, Reception’s text this week was Jonty Gentoo, the penguin who escapes the zoo to head to Antarctica (via an accidental detour to the North Pole!)

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