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• Thursday 4 December 2025 Year 4 on Cloud Nine as Water Cycle Work Rains Down Success! Our curious year 4 scientists have been hard at work, investigating the water cycle in ways that have brought both fun and learning right into their classroom. From setting up their own mini-clouds to watching rain form, their hands-on experiments have not only deepened their understanding but also sparked a love for science that is wonderful to see.
• Sunday 30 November 2025 Year 2 DT cooking
• Sunday 30 November 2025 Gymnastics competition
• Friday 28 November 2025 Roasted Marshmallows and Autumn wands
• Friday 28 November 2025 Diwali - Diva Lamps Last week in the EYFS we learnt all about Diwali, we celebrated with lots of Diwali-themed activities including making our very own clay diva lamps in Topic!
• Friday 28 November 2025 Alpacas, Donkeys & Sheep Yesterday, a dozen or so children were lucky enough to spend the afternoon at our local Dandelion Time farm.
• Friday 28 November 2025 Y3 Advice Hotline
• Friday 21 November 2025 Year 3 Autumn wreaths It has been a gorgeous day with sunny blue Sky's.
• Friday 21 November 2025 Phonics - th, sh, ng, nk This week in phonics the EYFS children have learnt the final four phase 2 sounds - the digraphs: th, sh, ng and nk!
• Thursday 20 November 2025 Fencing Fit We had a lovely afternoon today with our FitFencing workshop! It was a fantastic introduction to the sport which gave the children the chance to learn and practise the basic movements in a fun and engaging way. We were taught how to stand in the correct fencing stance, move forwards and backwards with control, and use simple attack and defence actions. The session was active and well-structured, with clear demonstrations that helped the children feel confident and excited to try each skill. By the end of the workshop, the class showed great progress and enthusiasm, making it an enjoyable and memorable experience for everyone! Here are some of the things that we learnt:
• Tuesday 18 November 2025 Writing and DT enrichment - Making 1666 houses Fire of London
• Friday 14 November 2025 Phonics - z, zz, qu, ch This week in phonics the EYFS children have learnt the final letters of the alphabet including three new digraphs!
• Friday 14 November 2025 Where The Poppies Now Grow by Mrs Collins
• Thursday 13 November 2025 Walk(ing) like an Egyptian! This week, year 4 visited Maidstone Museum to help further our learning about Ancient Egyptians. After taking the train into Maidstone, we started our day with an archaeologist detective workshop where we discovered more about the role before putting our new knowledge to the test, digging up a whole host of artefacts. As the morning went on, we learnt about the process of mummification and were incredibly lucky to handle 4,000 year old statues, amulets and jewellery!
• Thursday 13 November 2025 Walk(ing) like an Egyptian! This week, year 4 visited Maidstone Museum to help further our learning about Ancient Egyptians. After taking the train into Maidstone, we started our day with an archaeologist detective workshop where we discovered more about the role before putting our new knowledge to the test, digging up a whole host of artefacts. As the morning went on, we learnt about the process of mummification and were incredibly lucky to handle 4,000 year old statues, amulets and jewellery!
• Wednesday 12 November 2025 Year 5 Apple crumble
• Friday 7 November 2025 An interview with Neil Armstrong The children used good Oracy skills to ask Neil Armstrong some important questions about his space travel to the moon. He is one of the significant figures we are looking at in our History topic this term.
• Friday 7 November 2025 Bringing writing to life through magic! At East Farleigh, we're constantly looking for ways to enrich our children's writing! This week saw us welcome the hilarious Marli Magic to the school, to perform an extra special magic show just for year 3 and year 4, linking to our writing themed around the book Leon and the Place Between.
• Friday 7 November 2025 Phonics - v,w,x,y
• Friday 7 November 2025 Bonfire Night in the EYFS This week in the EYFS we have learnt all about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate Bonfire Night! The children shared their own experiences and traditions surrounding Bonfire Night and our classroom was full to the brim with exciting firework-themed activities!
• Friday 7 November 2025 Wonder by Mr Goodman
• Friday 31 October 2025 Year 6 Rainy day Autumn lanterns
• Friday 31 October 2025 Phonics - ss, ff, ll, j This week in phonics the EYFS children have been learning more digraphs! These are special digraphs known as 'double letter digraphs', the children learnt that these are only found in the middle or at the end of words and never at the start. We have also begun learning the last of our single sounds (phonemes) and started with j!
• Friday 31 October 2025 Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Party Pooper by Freya - Year 5
• Wednesday 29 October 2025 Computer Portraiture Year One have been absolute computer whizzes this week. We have been learning about all the different icons you can use on a painting app. We explored the spray can, paint brush, pencil and paint pot icons and created excellent portraits of ourselves. We hope you enjoy seeing some of the results!
• Wednesday 29 October 2025 Spanish Greetings These 2 children have been practising their Spanish at home and wanted to share their conversation. Muy bien!
• Monday 27 October 2025 Squiggle While You Wiggle Every day in the EYFS we do something called 'Squiggle While You Wiggle', you may hear it called 'Squiggle Time' by your children! This is a gross motor programme designed to support early writing. Last term the children did a number of exercises each day during Squiggle Time, they quickly learnt that we were doing the exercises to get our bodies 'ready to learn'. By the end of term the class were able to complete all exercises with sustained attention and focus and much-improved techniques compared to week 1! This term we are moving onto big movements that will support letter formation and today we had our first session in the new format! The children used their 'flappers' (squares of fabric) to do the big movements, then we moved onto using the giant paper to recreate these movements with crayons! Today we focussed on up and down, side to side and criss-cross (both of the former but at the same time).
• Friday 17 October 2025 Kensuke's Kingdom By Miss Hooper
• Thursday 16 October 2025 Pumpkins Year R
• Monday 13 October 2025 Geography Fieldwork Keeper's Nursery Y5

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