Children in Nursery had a lovely week learning about the celebration of Chinese New Year. They looked at various ways of finding out information whether through books or using technology. They painted Chinese letters and dragons, took part in our role play Chinese takeaway and tried lots of different foods. Yum!

Year 6 have been investigating insoluble and soluble materials.

In groups they went around the classroom in a carousel, testing different materials to see if it would dissolve in water. They made sure to keep it a fair test by ensuring certain variables were kept the same. Once finished, we discussed and wrote our results as a class.

With curry powder, vinegar, mustard and coffee on the materials list, it was quite stinky in the classroom afterwards!

Our Nursery children had a wonderful experience with the exciting activities they took part in last week as part of National Storytelling week!

Alison from the Dogs Trust visited year 3 and 4 to talk about caring for dogs and how to keep ourselves and our pets safe! It was really interesting, and we all learnt new skills and ways to look after dogs, as well as lots of 'do's and dont's'.

We learnt about how to approach dogs we may see in public and what to do if an unfamiliar dog was to come up to us.

Sadly, we see all too often the effects of dog attacks and they were often started innocently...we are pleased that our children now have some skills to try and stop this from happening to them!

The children in Year 1 have been learning about instruction writing and have taken the role of a penguin keeper at the sea-life centre! The children made their own pet penguin and acted out how to look after a penguin, including feeding the penguin and cleaning out its messy pen!

The Reception class have been busy making bird feeders this week. We looked at lots of different designs and decided to make some with yogurt pots and toilet roll middles. We hung them out in forest school and we shall revisit to have a look at them to see how much has been eaten!