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This afternoon Buttercup went on an adventure in the Explorer Dome!  We went on an immersive exploration of the world, experiencing hot rainforests, dry deserts and even the freezing arctic!  We learnt about some unusual animal behaviours and adaptations and discovered what we can all do to help…

It was so lovely to welcome all of Primroses Grandparent's into our classroom during the festive period to join us in creating a range of Christmas crafts. Together, the children created orange Christmas tree decorations, a Christmas card, a melting snowman biscuit and a rudolph hat ready for our…

For those of you that came to see the performance, we are sure you will agree that the children managed to create a performance that they should be SO proud of. he singing was fantastic, they learnt their lines beautifully and they were able to add in a little extra humour too which made it such…

We researched different catapults that the Romans used and then looked at various different wood, keeping in mind our aim of making a catapult which would be able to launch a pom pom as far as possible. We then chose the wood and set to work designing our catapults. When we made the catapults, we…

For their nativity, Year 1 and 2 performed Baarmy Bethlehem, a story about ‘party sheep’ who love to ‘Baa Baa Boogie’!

Cheeky, Rascal, Tinker and Scamp the sheep are real party animals! So, when they see Bethlehem filling up for Caesar’s census, they assume it’s for a big celebration and they…

Here we all are... dressed in our Nativity costumes, ready for our performances! Don't we look great?!

This afternoon, we welcomed 'Open the Book' into school, who performed the bible story 'The Fiery Furnace', along with some volunteers from Buttercup and Primrose Classes.

In this story King Nebuchadnezzar built a golden statue of himself for everyone to worship. However, three men named…

Today, we observed materials that can change their states of matter. We had a competition to see who could melt an ice cube from a solid to liquid the fastest, using only our body. We then explored different materials and changed their state of matter - we melted chocolate, thinking about whether…

Today, we explored materials that are more difficult to sort into solids, liquids and gases. We learnt that some materials, like ooblek and toothpaste, are a combination of solid and liquid. We also looked at materials that flow slower than water but are still liquids like…

This afternoon we interviewed Sophie’s grandma, Sharon, about her childhood. We asked questions about her toys, the food she used to eat and what school was like. We were amazed to discover that there were no mobile phones, people didn’t have McDonalds or KFC because the only takeaway that you…

This term our focus book has been 'Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain'. To support Understanding of the World development, we have been comparing African animals to animals found in England. Before our trip to Paignton Zoo, we came up with question to ask giraffe zoo Keeper, John. We had questions…

A character from a well-known story had come into our school today and left some clues as to who it could have been! Year 2 were set the challenge of being story detectives and used the 4 clues, one at a time, to think about which story they could be from. After the first clue of the sticks, we…