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The children have enjoyed doing their PE lesson outdoors this week practising ball skills and travelling in and out of hoops. In the forest area, they continue to balance, swing, collect and play together using their wonderful imaginations. 

Today we investigated numbers in the environment and the children were able to make a number museum for 9 and 10 on their own!

On Friday, the children worked in small groups to plan and create a rocket.

They had to explain what mission their rocket would be suitable.

The children had lots of fun working together in their groups.

This week we are looking at numbers 9 and 10.  Today we sorted lots of representations of the numbers into the correct piles.  

Today we have started preparation for our Easter cards.  We used a technique called marbling with coloured inks to create an abstract pattern onto plain paper.  

On Thursday the children made bouquets of flowers for their mum using a selection of dried foliage and flowers. They then carefully sketched their beautiful creations. We hope that all of the mums enjoyed receiving them.

In RE our topic is Desert to Garden and we have been talking about spring time and how things begin to grow around us. We went on a walk around school looking for signs of spring and saw lots of beautiful flowers, plants and trees. We remembered how Lent is a time when we grow more like Jesus and…

This week we used our fine motor skills for crushing and chopping.  We prepared vegetable sticks and combined ingredients for homemade houmous.  In the afternoon the children ventured to the big school field for a picnic of veg sticks and houmous dip!  So many children did well for trying foods…

What a wonderful science week have had!  The children have looked a the differences between different animals linking with our Hattie Peck. - The Journey Home text. We have been busy planting and vegetable seeds. We also took advantage of a very windy day by making our own kites and investigating…

As part of British Science Week, we explored how to ‘unboil’ and egg led by Dr Heike Arnold from the University of Liverpool.

We looked at the structure of an egg and how it reacts when different substances are added to it.

Dr Arnold then demonstrated how to dissolve an egg using drain…

Children from Year 3 came to this afternoon’s curriculum governors meeting to talk about their learning in Religious Education.  Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Sothern conducted a pupil book study and the children shared their knowledge and understanding.  Governors commented that they had learned new…

This week is British Science Week and we are noticing how science is all around us. We have been looking at animals and discussing how they have similarities and differences. The children have enjoyed playing a matching game - finding the halves of the animal faces and identifying each animal. We…