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Today reception discussed where food comes from, specifically chocolate (our favourite). We talked about how hard the farmers work to harvest the coco beans to send to the factories to make our delicious chocolate. We then found out that some farmers don't get paid nearly enough for all their hard…

Knowledge: I can find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

Skills: I can set up an experiment to investigate how plants need certain conditions in order to grow and thrive.

Vocab: planting, sowing, seed, bulb,…

Year 3 learn how to make 3d sculptures stronger.

Year 3 learn how to be successful fielders.

The Nursery class had a visit from the police. They dressed up as mini police, took their fingerprints, and explored the police car. We talked about how the police can help us and other people to stay safe, and what number we phone in an emergency.

In Assembly this morning, Mr Orme talked with the children about Fairtrade Fortnight.  We started by thinking about what fairness means to us in our everyday lives.  Then we found out about some of the people who grow food in other countries around the world for us to eat here at home in the…

Here are Julia and Jansen who have won the Learning and Behaviour certificates this week.

Year 3 use manipulatives to multiply.

KNOWLEDGE: We created an animation that demonstrates the water cycle.

SKILLS: We used the internet to learn about the water cycle, navigating between and evaluating a range of websites.

VOCABULARY: Animation, Transition, Import background, copy frame

Here are Florence and Aryssa being guided in a Reciprocal Reading session with Katharine O'Neill, Head of English at Liverpool Hope University.

Year 4 have had a very noisy afternoon creating straw pipes and a pipe flute. 

The children discovered that: the shorter straws produced a higher pitch note and the longer straws produced a lower pitched note.