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• Friday 31 January 2025 Toto the Ninja Cat by Mrs Skinner
• Friday 31 January 2025 Rain & Scavanger Hunts Today has been a pretty wet and muddy day with Year 4.
• Friday 31 January 2025 Stamping around! This week's art lesson saw us turn our attention to the natural world. We combined a variety of printmaking techniques and materials to create a print on a theme and to represent the detailed patterns found in natural phenomena, such as water, weather or animal skins.
• Thursday 30 January 2025 Fabric Crumbs! Today we had such a lovely afternoon! We continued our 'Mixed Media' unit in art by learning about different fabrics and started to make our 'fabric crumbs'. Year 5 had to carefully select fabrics using their understanding of line, texture, shape and colour and layer them carefully to create a fabric collage. We will be continuing these over the coming weeks and look forward to sharing our final pieces with you. Well done Year 5 - you are amazing!
• Thursday 30 January 2025 Our Important Events As part of their History topic, Year 1 have been sharing important events in their lives.
• Wednesday 29 January 2025 Chinese New Year! To celebrate Chinese New Year, the year of the wood snake, we created our own colourful snakes. The children enjoyed learning about the celebration. They found out they were either born in the year of the horse or the goat and discovered the characteristics of each animal. Chinese New Year starts today and lasts for 15 days ending with a magnificent lantern festival. Well done to Year 5 for such beautiful snakes!
• Wednesday 29 January 2025 Our Netball Team! Thanks to Mrs Collins and Miss Evans for their support and effort with the team.
• Wednesday 29 January 2025 Amazing victories at Cross Country! The East Farleigh children took on the stormy weather to bring home some medals, Tamsin 1st - Girls LKS2 race, Jemima 2nd - Girls UKS2 race and Eli 3rd - Boys KS1 race.
• Tuesday 28 January 2025 Neolithic Engineers! In Histony today, we explored the incredible engineering of Neolithic people. With very limited technology ( stone tools, rope and wood) they created the marvel that is Stone Henge, which even aligned with the Sun on the solstices.
• Sunday 26 January 2025 What are our 5 senses? We investigated our 5 senses by just focusing on one sense to predict what we could hear, smell, touch, see and taste. The children wrote down their predictions on their white boards. What could you feel in the box? What could you smell? What could you taste when you couldn't feel or see it?
• Sunday 26 January 2025 Norse Poetry This week we have been continuing our writing unit on myths and legends. We have been looking at settings, characters, magical objects and animals in the Norse World and used our findings to create poems. Well done Year 5 - you have written the most amazing poetry!
• Friday 24 January 2025 Elmer by Mrs Easom
• Friday 24 January 2025 Run, Run As Fast As You Can! This week in the EYFS we have been reading the story 'The Gingerbread Man' as part of our Stories and Rhymes topic. We couldn't pass by the opportunity to make our very own gingerbread men so that is what we did! In our topic sessions the children took it in turns over the course of the week to weigh and combine the ingredients, form and roll the dough and cut and bake the gingerbread men. They were delicious! The children have not only developed their baking skills this week but this activity has enabled them to explore language involved in cooking, for example weight and capacity: more, less, half full, full etc., techniques: knead, roll, cut, mix etc. and words to describe the sensory aspect of cooking: squidgy dough, delicious biscuits and so many more!
• Friday 24 January 2025 Hedgehog Houses It was a blustery day in Forest school today and the rain stayed away. Year R had a fun time exploring all things bugs. We read a brilliant little story to remind us that we are never alone when we are in the garden. There are little creatures and mini beasts everywhere - even if we don't see them.
• Wednesday 22 January 2025 Reaching out to Spain!
• Sunday 19 January 2025 Year 1 DT - bird hides Year 1 have been making bird hides as part of their DT unit.
• Friday 17 January 2025 How to Train Your Dragon by Mrs Kindred
• Friday 17 January 2025 Scrummy snack making in Class Two! This term in Year Two, we have been exploring a healthy diet. We have worked hard to develop key cooking skills like cutting, mixing, peeling and grating. For our final project, we used these skills to create healthy no-bake snack bars!
• Friday 17 January 2025 Minibeasts Happy Forest school Friday to all!!
• Friday 17 January 2025 A Viking exploration! This week we have been discovering all sorts of new information about the Vikings, in reading comprehension. From what their homes looked like, their beliefs and where they originated from and travelled to, we've discovered so much!
• Thursday 16 January 2025 Someone's Been Eating My Porridge! This week in the EYFS we have immersed ourselves in the fairy tale world of Goldilocks and the Three Bears! We have been role playing the story to work on our Communication, Language and Performance skills, making bear masks to further develop our Creative Art & Design skills, made some oat-filled playdough to strengthen our fine motor skills and so much more!
• Thursday 16 January 2025 Amazing Artists! In year 3 we have been exploring colour! We have been learning about the colour wheel, complementary and contrasting colours and we honed our colour mixing techniques today by trying to recreate the colours in this famous portrait by the artist Modigliani with some exceptional results!
• Wednesday 15 January 2025 Geography of Greece
• Wednesday 15 January 2025 Stages of Life Year 1 have been learning about the stages of life, and ordering these on a timeline.
• Monday 13 January 2025 Year 6 - History Day WW2 Year 6 had a History day to finish off their topic world on WW2.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Robots at the Ready! This week, Class One kicked off their first programming unit in Computing.
• Friday 10 January 2025 'Robot' algorithms in Class 2! We first discussed how we could get computers to do what we want. We thought about how we might give a computer instructions on different programs or by clicking/ tapping buttons and keys.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Headteacher's Reward Afternoon - Chinese Art With Chinese New Year just around the corner (29 Jan 25), our reward afternoon had a Chinese art theme to it this term. I was once taught be a Chinese Calligrapher the basics of how to use a brush and ink to create traditional Bamboo paintings; it has been a few years, but I was able to remember much of what she taught me so that I could share them with the children. We followed 5 steps which was rounded off by finishing the paintings off with a traditional 'Chinese Chop' sign off emblem. Usually, this would be a form of painter's signature (in the red square) but we used a potato print of the word 'Snake' ? (Shé), to mark the start of the Year of the Snake in 2025.
• Friday 10 January 2025 Frosty Clove Hitching
• Friday 10 January 2025 Ruby's Worry By Mrs Sephton

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