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• Sunday 12 October 2025 Year 2 Using our communication and oracy skills to improve our PE We focused on the whole picture in PE this week, making sure we used good communication to make small catching games work and that we all had a fair turn. PE is not just about the physical, there are emotional, thinking and social skills that need to be used so that anyone is able to be a greater depth person in PE. We focused a lot on our Oracy learnt skills so we could all speak, listen and take turns.
• Friday 10 October 2025 Phonics - h, b, f, l This week in Phonics in the EYFS we have learnt the sounds 'h, b, f, l'.
• Friday 10 October 2025 World Mental Health Day 2025 in the EYFS! Today, Friday 10th October 2025, is World Mental Health Day! To mark this important event everyone was invited to wear yellow clothes or accessories, don't they look great?
• Friday 10 October 2025 Nature necklaces and popcorn Today year 1 enjoyed their first Forest school session of the year. We made some lovely nature necklaces as well as popcorn on the fire. We recapped the fire safety rules before a fire was made. We also read a story about a very annoying elephant:)
• Tuesday 7 October 2025 Debate-able!
• Monday 6 October 2025 Exploring Ancient Egyptian inventions As we moved on to our new topic — the Ancient Egyptians — we spent our lessons discovering some of the fascinating inventions, discoveries, and practices from up to 5,000 years ago!
• Friday 3 October 2025 Phonics - ck, e, u, r This week in Phonics in the EYFS we have learnt the sounds 'ck, e, u & r'. The children were excited to learn their first digraph - ck! A digraph is when two letters and placed together to make one sound (e.g. ch, sh, th). The children identified that the digraph 'ck' had a different sound button on the word cards when they began reading, we discussed that Phonemes (single sounds) have a dot sound button and digraphs have a line. They did brilliantly at reading words containing our new sounds during our phonics session!
• Friday 3 October 2025 Popcorn year two Year 2 and I had a great time today despite the rain.
• Wednesday 1 October 2025 East Farleigh Eruption!
• Wednesday 1 October 2025 Marvellous Me! The children in the EYFS have been busy over the last week painting beautiful portraits of themselves! This term our topic is 'All About Me' and we want the children to celebrate their individuality and uniqueness. The children took it in turns to sit with an adult and spend time looking in the mirror and discussing what makes them, them! They discussed eye colour, hair colour, face shape, skin colour, defining features such as freckles or dimples and so much more. It was an excellent opportunity for early language development as the children had to think of words to describe themselves.
• Tuesday 30 September 2025 Debating Ancient Sumerian Society This week we've been learning about the hierarchy of societal roles in Ancient Sumer. We discovered the King led society and was above Priests, the Upper Class, Lower Class and Slaves. This caused quite the stir amongst the class who were outraged that a King was considered more important than the people who actually went out and did all the work! With this in mind, an impromptu debate erupted - a perfect opportunity to practise our oracy skills. Check out some of the conversations and views in the video below!
• Sunday 28 September 2025 Year 2 - Celebrating Rosh Hashana
• Friday 26 September 2025 Forest School Fun Year 3 have been forest school super stars today. We got all creative and made some musical instrument's.
• Friday 26 September 2025 Phonics - g, o, c, k This week in Phonics in the EYFS we have learnt the sounds 'g, o, c and k'. The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring these sounds further in their child initiated play! We drew 'g' in glitter, stacked 'o' shaped cereal and used paint to dot suckers onto octopus pictures to work our fine motor skills, cut out cats with curly tails for 'c' and made fantastic kites for 'k'! We have also started our early writing practice sessions which are going brilliantly!
• Friday 26 September 2025 The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Mrs Kindred
• Wednesday 24 September 2025 Nature craft The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Tuesday 23 September 2025 Exciting eruptions! This week, Year 3 have been learning about the structure and types of different volcanoes. We have been making some beautiful volcano factfiles in our journals, which we painted today. Aren't they looking great?
• Sunday 21 September 2025 Year 2 - Signifcant People Posters
• Friday 19 September 2025 Year 1 Artists! Kandinsky
• Friday 19 September 2025 Phonics - i, n, m, d Please see below a short video in which some children from the EYFS will tell you what sounds we have learnt this week!
• Friday 19 September 2025 The Oak Tree by Mrs Chapman
• Friday 19 September 2025 Help! We're lost! This week, during out outdoor learning, we focused our learning on geographical fieldwork skills. We discovered that the four cardinal directions are north (N), east (E), south (S) and west (W). The four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions are halfway between the cardinal directions: north-east (NE), south-east (SE), south-west (SW) and north-west (NW).
• Thursday 18 September 2025 Agree? Build? Challenge? Making talk matter in Maths! Y5 This week, we have continued our learning about place value. We have introduced three new signs to show our thinking to others during whole class discussions. We are developing our ability to reflect mathematically by considering our responses in three ways.
• Wednesday 17 September 2025 Celebrating religions This week, Year 3 have been learning about Hindu Gods and Goddesses, what they represent, and why they are so important to Hindu people.
• Monday 15 September 2025 It's Buddy Time! Our wonderful Year 6 children have been eagerly awaiting the day they would get to 'buddy up' with our new EYFS children.
• Saturday 13 September 2025 Searching for microhabitats - Year 2 The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Friday 12 September 2025 The 13-Storey Treehouse by Thea - Year 5
• Friday 12 September 2025 Starting Phonics This week in the EYFS we began our Phonics learning! Here is Arlo, Lilly, Theo and Connie letting you know what sounds we know so far...
• Friday 12 September 2025 Nature in Art or Art in Nature?! A wonderful day exploring the beauty in nature!
• Friday 12 September 2025 Soup.... Happy forest school Friday!

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