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Our big event this week was our now annual Talent contest! What a fantastic night we all had! 

Tuesday night was the home of Pool House Talent Contest. Twelve acts, who had to pass through a gruelling audition process, performed in front of their peers, parents and staff. It was fantastic to…

Once upon a time there was a wonderful class of 17 children. One day a giant sunflower grew outside their classroom. I wonder what could be at the top of the sunflower? 

This week rainbow class have been looking at the story of Jack and the beanstalk before beginning to create our own…

I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff…

This week we have loved reading the story of the Three Little Pigs. Sunshine class were fantastic at acting out the story. Mrs Parkinson was particularly impressed with Harvey who put on a wonderful Wolf voice and Elle who was able to narrate the whole story whilst her…

Another very busy week this week…I think I’m sensing a theme here! Anyway, for the forthcoming weeks, the main focus in my timetable, will be working with some of the year six children who will be doing their SATs tests in the coming months. They will be doing some work at greater depth with me,…

On Monday we didn’t do English because we were meant to go swimming but the bus didn’t turn up. In maths we did a work sheet doing money in Colum addition. Then it was lunch time and after lunch we had Mrs Johnson. We did PHSCE with her. In it we did designing instruments ready to make them, we…

On Monday the children started to learn about being a good storyteller. They read the story ‘the best friends’ and practised retelling it. They started to learn about fraction and used biscuits to cut them in half and quarters. (Might have eaten a few too!)

On Tuesday in English the…

This week we thought we were going swimming for the first time since year 5. However after waiting for the bus most of the morning, we gave up and focused on some Mathematics instead. Better luck next week! Each Monday we are hoping to go swimming and complete a mental arithme4tic test to increase…

What a fun week we have had!

On Tuesday we had a parcel delivered from Goldilocks.

"She wanted us to make some porridge." - Daniel

"The porridge was marvelous!" - Reegan

"I put sugar in my porridge." - Lily-May

"We wrote a letter to Goldilocks about how to make the porridge." -…

What a week! First off, Happy St David’s Day and Happy World Book Day too. The children have all had an amazing time in school today and created comic strips, acted out super hero plays, read stories with each other and also helped to solve the mystery of Mrs Bennett being kidnapped! All was well…

We started the week finishing off our chinese celebrations by tasting different chinese foods and talking about what we had learnt about chinese new year. 

"I liked the rice best" 

"My favourite was the spring rolls"

Brodey and Elle thoroughly enjoyed their chinese banquet and cleared…

On Monday in English we were writing a diary entry, pretending to be Dr Leila and writing what happened when Ayesha came. In maths we were making pancakes and also doing other measurements. Then in the afternoon we were doing PHSE the whole afternoon. We were making healthy lifestyle…

This week has been a hectic first week back! We have started a new English topic about ‘Amazing Inventions’. Firstly, we spent our time considering what an invention actually is and then listing some inventions that we all use every day! We then read about Thomas Edison and discussed his top tips…