World Book Day
Today we celebrated World Book Day. The theme this year for our school was ‘building a better world together’. This relates closely to our school vision. We worked on ideas that resulted in our own piece of work that created a plan for building a future and making the...
Headteacher’s Newsletter 27 February 2026
THE SHINING STARS ENJOYED PRESENTING THEIR LEARNING ABOUT CHINESE NEW YEAR TO THEIR NURSERY FRIENDS!
Famous Fives learn how to create databases in Computing…
Freestyle Football
Today a special visitor came to our school to teach us some football freestyle skills. We had lots of fun!
Funnybones Past Tense
In our English lesson we played a game to help us spell verbs ending with the suffix -ed. We had to look at a verb and decide which was the correct past tense spelling of that word. We had to write down our answer. If we were correct, we could keep a part of our...
Verbs and adding the suffix ‘-ed’…
Today we played a game to demonstrate our understanding of the spelling rules when adding the suffix '-ed'.
Headsteacher’s Newsletter 13 February 2026
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THE SHINING STARS ENJOYED PRESENTING THEIR LEARNING ABOUT CHINESE NEW YEAR TO THEIR NURSERY FRIENDS!
The Shining Stars retold The Great Race story and showed the story book, along with a stick puppet slider showing the rat, ox and tiger in first, second and third position in the race. The children presented their Mandarin character writing, some art work and sang a...
Show and Tell!
The Hungry Caterpillars were challenged to bring something they have made into Nursery to show and talk about. The children rose to the challenge and brought in a variety of creations, including a glittery sword, a collage of Elsa's castle, a cotton wool snowman, a...
Midsummer Night’s Dream…
Headteacher’s letter 6 February 2026
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Famous Fives enjoyed their visit to Sheffield Cathedral…
Comparing Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
We have identified the key similarities and differences between Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole by creating a comparison chart. We also played Quiz Quiz Trade to share our knowledge and understanding about Florence and Mary. [gallery type="rectangular"...
A Special Visitor…
The children in Class 2 had a visit today from a very special lady. The children all stepped back in time and met Miss Florence Nightingale… ‘The lady with the lamp’. Florence retold her life story, with the involvement from the children. They used lots of props,...
What were the hospital conditions in Scutari like before Florence Nightingale visited?
We learnt about the hospital conditions in Scutari before Florence Nightingale visited. We had to sort cards showing various problems that Florence faced when she arrived at Scutari and match them to the solutions. [gallery type="rectangular"...
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Our fantastic Anglo-Saxon Day
This week we had a special Anglo-Saxon day in our class and the children took part in a variety of activities. We all dressed up as Anglo Saxons, learnt about life in an Anglo-Saxon village, baked bread, read the famous Anglo-Saxon story about Beowulf and sang a song...
Our worship about Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Global Guardians presented a wonderful worship about Archbishop Desmond Tutu this week. We found our interesting facts about his life and also learnt about the important role he played in the reconciliation process following the end of apartheid in South Africa....
THE SHINING STARS HAVE CREATED THEIR OWN OUTDOOR FIRE FIGHTER ROLE-PLAY!
It all began when a few children were practising climbing up the climbing wall. Then they suddenly heard the calls: "Fire, Fire!" It was time to call the fire brigade who swiftly arrived at the scene and proceeded to climb the building, to rescue the people at the...
Famous Fives investigate air resistance…
Our first ‘Proud Portal’ moment!
In the Year 4 classroom, we now have a cosy reading cottage that can be used as a quiet space for our pupils to share how they love their learning. This is our first entry: https://vimeo.com/1158830254
If all the world were…
This week the children in class 2 have been drawing upon ideas in the text to think about special objects, creating noun phrases for each. They have then applied this idea into a non-narrative poem with a focus on drawing upon the author’s language. Finally, after...
TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC!
The Hungry Caterpillars took part in an indoor teddy bears’ picnic. The children followed instructions to make a sandwich for picnic time. Everyone enjoyed eating their sandwich and crisps with their friends. They also listened to the traditional Teddy Bears’ Picnic...
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