This week in Ducklings Class, our COOL time has been full of exciting seaside adventures and hands-on learning! The children loved our fishing game, where they 'caught' fish and read the numbers they found, helping to build confidence in early maths skills and number recognition through playful learning. In the sandpit, the children enjoyed making sandcastles and designing their very own flags. This was a hugely popular activity that encouraged imagination, fine motor develop

Well over the last few weeks Year One have turned into professional job hunters! We have explored what a CV looks like and even learnt what it stands for in Latin... Curriculum Vitae - "Course of life". Together we wrote our own CV showcasing our skills and talents in Year one! Today, we learnt how to address an envelope and delivered our CV to a member of our Senior Leadership Team! Mr Brinkley appeared and we shared our talents and how we would love to be considered for fut

The Businessman Lord Sugar once said "Success comes from hard work and determination" and that is exactly what we, in Year 2, have been learning about this term in PSHE! Mrs Semple set us a task of inventing and designing our own toy based product to pitch and sell to our class mates and some guest judges and wow - did we take this task seriously! We thought about names, prices, target age brackets and practised how we would create our business pitch! Those who were brave eno

The children have been very fortunate to be visited by one of our wonderful parents, Lori Fischer, who is a biologist. She came in to speak to all of the children about bioplastics and even demonstrated how they can be produced from a natural substance... Starch, which can be extracted from potatoes or corn! She then allowed the children to have a go at making their own bioplastics by using corn starch. All the children were fascinated by the process! Thank you so much for vo

What would you do with a million pounds? This is something that Year Four was thinking about in our PSHE lesson today. We started the lesson making some very hard choices in the form of a game - do we spend the money on a new car, a house, or give it to charity? Each part of the hall represented something we could splash out on and we had to run to the different options! These choices were hard enough but then things became more challenging. Could we give up the most special

Ducklings have been for another fantastic Beach School session. With the tide lower than usual, we were able to take a different route, walking through the boat docking bay and around to Sunny Sands, which created lots of excitement and curiosity. Along the way, we talked about beach safety, including the warning signs for soft mud, and how to keep ourselves safe in this environment. When we reached the rocky area, the children explored seaweed attached to the rocks and were

Ducklings class had a super exciting science session with Victoria’s mum. We learned all about plastics and discovered that they are used in lots of everyday things. We talked about why plastics can be really useful because they are strong and can last a long time, but also why they can be harmful, especially to animals and our oceans, because they do not break down easily. Then came the fun part. We made our very own bioplastic. First, we mixed cornflour with water. Next, we

This week we held our annual confirmation service. Ten of our pupils were confirmed and it was lovely to welcome Bishop Rise to lead the service. Confirmation is a special church service in which a person confirms the promises that were made for them when they were baptised. Bishop Rose laid her hands on their heads and asked God’s Holy Spirit to give them the strength and commitment to live God’s way for the rest of their life. The children sang beautifully and were brillian