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• 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
• 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 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:)
• 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?
• 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 Popcorn year two Year 2 and I had a great time today despite the rain.
• 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!
• 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

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