This week, Year 4 have been immersing themselves in our new expedition! This term, we shall be looking at the Second World War. We have begun learning about some key events, alongside partaking in craft activities such as creating silhouette skyline artwork showcasing the Blitz, and creating wooden aircraft models!
What an extraordinary Hook Week! Year 6 have officially launched into their Autumn learning expedition, ‘To Infinity and Beyond’, immersing themselves in the wonder, science, and creativity of space exploration.
Channeling their inner artists, the children began the week by creating stunning, vivid galaxy artwork using oil pastels. They experimented with smooth blending techniques, bold colour contrasts, and rich layering to capture the glowing depth and mystery of the cosmos.
Turning that creative energy toward engineering, the class then stepped into the roles of aerospace designers to construct their own rockets. Focusing closely on streamlined shapes and fin placements, they explored the core principles of aerodynamics to build models ready for high-speed launch.
The absolute highlight of the week was an unforgettable trip to the National Space Centre in Leicester. Walking beneath towering rockets and diving into interactive exhibits, the experience set everyone’s brains alight with curiosity and wonder, giving the children a genuine taste of what lies beyond our planet.
It has been an incredible start to the term, and we now look forward to watching our young space explorers rocket to new heights as this expedition unfolds. What a week!
Year 5 Crew has spent the week exploring the guiding question: How can our Crew be strengthened by acts of service to others?
Following their discussions, the children considered different ways they could support others and make a positive contribution to their community.
On Friday, a group of children visited The Laurels, a local care home. During the visit, they spent time with the residents, shared the poems they had written and showed them their artwork. The visit gave the children an opportunity to put their learning into practice and reflect on how giving their time and skills can benefit others.
This was just one of several acts of service completed by Year 5 this week, showing how working together as a Crew can help us make a positive contribution to our wider community.
Year 6 have hit the ground running this week, throwing themselves into exploring our core character traits through a variety of hands-on tasks. Class 6CC have bonded brilliantly, and watching pupils collaborate so seamlessly across their crews has been a true highlight.
Among the pupil favorites were ‘courage charades’ and a collaborative crew graffiti project, where each child crafted an individual oil pastel piece to build a vibrant mural now displayed in the Year 5/6 corridor. Demonstrating incredible determination, the children also tackled a massive crew challenge—walking, jogging, and running laps of the field to push their collective limits. Together, they logged an average of 880 laps (66 km) per class, reaching a staggering combined total of 265 km! That is the equivalent of scaling the height of some of the world’s highest mountain peaks.
For Mrs Blunt and me, it has been wonderful getting to know the children we haven’t previously taught, while watching familiar faces continue to grow and express themselves. We are both thoroughly looking forward to the exciting year ahead with this incredible group!
This week, Year 4 celebrated the First Week Back through undertaking the challenge of answering the Crew Guiding Question of, ‘How can Crew work together to achieve an end goal?’. To answer this, Year 4 decided that spreading kindness would be our end goal! We would achieve this by baking a range of treats to take home and gift to parents and carers, and to also create a range of ‘Kindness Cards’ to spread to children in our school. Year 4 showed great craftsmanship and quality to create such beautiful creations and bring smiles to the faces of many! Well done Year 4 on a lovely start to the year!
Last week, the children of Year 3 became musicians for the afternoon! Fully embracing their instruments, they created some beautiful pieces of music and played along to some real-world songs. Keep on rocking!
Today, Year 3 embarked on a barnstorming adventure into the local community to pick up litter and help clean up our local environment! The children were very excited to help with this endevour and one piece at a time, we can make our local area beautiful!
Recently, 3TE have been actively traversing around the classroom to solve a range of mathematical problems. Our mathematical movement has engaged our minds and worked our brains and ensured our mathematical abilities continue to expand, multiply, enlarge… and however many more mathematical synonyms for increasing you can think of!
This week, 3TE have been developing their division skills with a variety of challenges, including this particular activity where the children were traversing around the room solving a variety of problems using a newly discovered method. The children have since expanded this knowledge even further with addtional methods and even harder problems. Keep up making those division discoveries!
This week, Year 3 were given a secret mission… Treasure had been stolen and hidden somewhere in school! The Year 3 children were tasked to use their multiplication skills in order to solve a range of questions, crack a code and figure out where the treasure was hidden! These super sleuths were courageous, resilient and showed great endevour to find the treasure. Well done all of your delightful detectives!
