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Today, we have started our Science unit on ‘Electricity’. We discussed what an ‘appliance’ is and which appliances use electricity. We sorted different appliances into those that use mains powered electricity and those that use battery powered using a Venn diagram. We also looked at the different…

Our history topic this half-term is about the changes between the Stone Age and the Iron Age in Britain. Today we found out how vast the prehistoric period was, using a toilet roll!! Each sheet represented 5,000 years and we needed to open the whole toilet roll to show how far back the beginning…

This afternoon, we were learning about animations and how they still pictures played quickly. We used the app Pivot animator to make simple animations of a stick man.

Term came to a close this afternoon with the whole school going to church for our carol service. Year 6 lead the service, focussing on gifts - especially God’s gift of Jesus to the world at Christmas. They were also helped by a staff band and a signing choir.

Forget Santa’s eleven, in Year 3 we have been busily preparing for Christmas and the holidays! We have been making packaging in DT, cutting out gingerbread biscuits, creating 3-D Christmas shapes from nets, making cards and calendars. We’ve also fitted in a music concert, an online writing…

This week Year 6 have visited Chirnside House and Ashton Manor care homes to entertain the residents with their carol singing. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards.

This week Year 6 have visited Chirnside House and Ashton Manor care homes to entertain the residents with their carol singing. They also enjoyed chatting to the residents afterwards.

Year 6 have finally completed their Christmas printing project, with their third layer of colour. The results look spectacular and will be used as our Christmas cards to our parents.

Today we have been sorting our 3D shapes. 
 

What a fantastic concert today. Our rock stars performed brilliantly and the audience of children and parents were awestruck by the confidence of the children who have been receiving Rock Steady lessons. Well done everyone!

What a day of sports we have had! This afternoon was our last tennis session with Coach Reagan and we practised rallies! It was quite tricky to control the ball but we managed some mini-rallies and definitely improved by the end of the lesson. We had made a card for Reagan and he was really…

Today Coach Scott came into school and we had a fantastic session playing Christmas dodgeball.  We played Christmas Tree Freeze, Catch the Bauble and finally Rudolph Rescue. We all loved it!