Our Year 5 children enjoyed a ride in a fire engine, courtesy of the Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, who explained the equipment they carry and what it is used for. This was part of a safety afternoon, organised to teach the children about various aspects of safety in the modern world, from keeping safe [...]
The whole of the Early Years joined together to celebrate the upcoming Royal Wedding as part of our British Values and Social Development activities. The children from 1 to 5 years of age took part in messy cake decorating, Princess and Prince dressing up and castle building, finishing off with some Sports day activities.
Years 5 and 6 have been learning how to create electrical circuits and have used these skills and knowledge to create exciting electrical quiz boards. Pop to the Year 5 classroom to find out more! How many times will you get the light bulb to light up?
For the first Woodland Working this half of the term, Reception and Foundation had the opportunity to cook outside in our fire pit. We toasted bread and made Hot Chocolate to enjoy together. A first experience for many and allowed us to discuss in detail fire safety with the upcoming Bonfire Night.
Pop songs, Gregorian chants, singing in other languages and creating vocal sound effects were all on the musical menu for our Y6 children at the Choral Day at King’s Ely last Tuesday. We were under the amazing leadership of conductor Dominic Peckham, who encouraged us to step out of our comfort zones and just ‘have [...]
Another new term, another School Council! This term's school council members are: Josie Spencer (Year 1), Darcey Phillips (Year 2), Harry Trott (Year 3), Tom Marshall (Year 4), Sophie Lowings (Year 5) and Sam Slade (Year 6). They are raring to go after their first few meetings and are excited to embark on this term's [...]
Foundation are busy bees this term, we have explored many letter sounds to help with reading short words. Children love to join in the activities to support the sounds such as blow painting onto Umbrellas for U and watching our wonderful caterpillars chrysalis for C. The rain didn't dampen our spirits giving us an excuse [...]
Year 5 and 6 have been learning about Galileo and the contributions he has made to modern day science. The children conducted their research on his trial and wrote a script based on what happened. Yesterday they performed his trial - and what a performance it was! The children made such an effort to learn [...]
Young Voices at the O2 Arena in London...WOW!!... what more can we say! After months of practice, our Junior children spent a wonderfully memorable day rehearsing and performing with almost 8, 000 other children as part of the Young Voices concert to a sell-out audience of 15, 000 people. They sang, danced and totally rocked [...]
In Foundation the Children have spent the week exploring the wonderful book, entitled The Jolly Christmas Postman. The children have explored the purpose of stamps, maps and directional language. We wrote our family cards with their new-found name writing skills, purchased stamps and posted them. Who should meet us but the local postman, who told us [...]
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