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Wacky "Hair" Wednesday

25 Mar 2021
Wacky "Hair" Wednesday A bad hair day! What a way to start a Wacky Wednesday! Our little children were excited to show off their crazy, cool hairstyles. Most of the hairstyles and colour managed to last the ‘wacky day.’ We look forward to the next Wacky Wednesday ‘Wardrobe Day.’ A few comments from...

Dr Seuss

25 Mar 2021
Std 3 & Dr Seuss On Friday, 5 March, the children in Std 3 celebrated Dr Seuss’s birthday. Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known by his pen name, Dr Seuss was a writer and cartoonist, who published over sixty books. He published his first children’s book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry...

Std 6 Spelling Bee

25 Mar 2021
Std 6 Spelling Bee Well done and congratulations to the following children who were placed in the top three in their year groups at the Spelling Bee this year: Std 3: 1st – Quentin Bechmann (3W) 2nd – Ivanka Puvimanasinghe (3O) 3rd – Adam Meyer (3P) Std 4: 1st – Goutham Suresh (4S) 2nd – Vihren...

Std 4T Fantasy Writing

15 Jul 2020
Std 4T Fantasy Writing In Std 4T, one of the themes we have covered in English, this term, is Fantasy writing. The children enjoy this topic and their Creative writing is wonderful. The Magical Journey Extract by Raeesa Hoosan 4T A long time ago, before the world was very old there was a rain...

Reception Rocks

15 Jul 2020
Reception Rocks You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. AA Milne How brave our little Reception children have been, who arrived back at school, with masks on and very large eyes waiting at the gate to have their temperature taken, sanitise their hands,...

Std 4S Life After Lockdown

15 Jul 2020
Std 4S Life After Lockdown The children have probably adapted to the ‘new normal’ much faster than I have and they remind me that they would rather be at school than being at home doing Google Classroom. I am proud of the way in which they have arrived back to the classroom and got on with the...

Std 7 New Normal

15 Jul 2020
Std 7 New Normal We started off the second term in a completely different way. It was a learning experience for all! But clearly, once we had all settled in and got used to the whole online teaching platform, came all the positives. This type of learning is definitely the way of the future. For our...

Library & Interhouse Quiz

15 Jul 2020
Library & Interhouse Quiz Even though pupils are not coming into the Library to borrow books, we are continuing lessons in the classroom, reading our favourite stories and working on literacy skills. Throughout lockdown, pupils joined the “Extreme Reading challenge” and contributed a photograph...

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