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Well done to Molly.

You are a very polite young lady. I am very proud of you and how well you represent this school.

In outdoor club, the children have been learning about tracking animals by their prints. The children then created their own animal tracks on our playground for the others to work out the animal. We had lots of fun and loved tracking the different animals. 

We have been learning about the properties of regular 2D shapes. We worked in groups to guess shapes by listening to a description of  their mathematical properties and matching the shapes using art straws and pin boards. 

Some children investigated regular triangles, asking the question; are…

This half term we have been carrying out an investigation on our KS1 garden area. We have found out about micro-habitats and we wanted to know if our garden provided a good enough environment for the essential insects that are needed to help flowers and plants to grow. We mapped out our gardern…

Over this half term, we have been learning all about humans.  Today we learned about the five senses and we went on a senses walk around school.  We used our senses of; touch, sight, smell and hearing to explore our environment.

Well done to everyone and a big thank you for all your kind donations of socks.

We have 161 pairs of socks so far.

Miss Carter will be taking them to the Help the Homeless charity over half term.

A big thank you to you all for making a difference.

A skill in the year 6 geography is to develop sampling.

The pupils worked in pairs to systematically sample the landscape of Gillibrand Primary School. The pupils started in different places in the school grounds and travelled in a range of directions to sample a wide area of the school…

Mrs Smith came to visit us yesterday. She told us all about making healthy food choices and we looked carefully at the amounts of sugar in the foods we eat.

Did you know, it is recommended that a child in Y4 should have no more than 6 cubes of sugar (19g) per day? A 500ml bottle of cola…

Part of the Year 3 Design Technology curriculum is learning how to sew. Today we practised the skill by using a needle, wool and binka material.

First we learned how to thread the eye of the needle, which was tricky for some, and why we need to knot the longer end of the thread.

The children…

In Computing we have been learning about algorithms. We created cities using multilink, we had to then program the beebot with an accurate algorithm to navigate the city, ensuring the beebot didn’t knock any buildings over.

If we made mistakes we had to ‘debug’ the algorithm, spotting the…

Year 4 have been studying  Physical Geography; including Volcanoes.

In groups the children have created their own unique volcano. We have described volcanoes and the key aspects of them.

The children are very excited because next week they will watch their own volcanoes erupting!

Watch…

A huge thank you to all the parents, friends and grandparents who came to church today to watch our Harvest service and a big thank you also to those who contributed gifts of tinned and packet food.

I also want to thank all the helpers who volunteered to walk the children to church. We couldn't…