East Farleigh Primary School

Tuesday 4 March 2025 Year 6 - Exploring Polar Regions Geography: Polar regions - Night and Day, Oceans, Landscapes

Sunday 2 March 2025 Exploring the work of William Morris To start our new design and technology project off, we've been exploring the works of one of the most famous print artists, William Morris. We explored the patterns and designs of his most famous works' and exploring his inspiration in nature.

Friday 28 February 2025 Forest Geometry I have had a fantastic day with year 3. Today we made our very own Geoboards. We used wood cookies, nails, wooden mallets and elastic bands.

Friday 28 February 2025 The Famous Five: Five and the Forgotten Treasure By Mr Amos

Thursday 27 February 2025 River's Rats and Rodents visits the EYFS This week we had an exciting visitor in the EYFS, River came to say hello and he brought with him 5 exciting pets: a lizard, a tortoise, a corn snake, a long-haired guinea pig and a dumbo rat! This experience truly enriched our weekly focus of pets and gave the children an opportunity to learn about some more obscure pets, they practiced their speaking skills by asking lots of questions and I was so proud of how many of them stroked and held the different animals. What a fabulous start to the new term and our 'Animal Safari' topic!

Wednesday 26 February 2025 The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield This week be began our new writing unit based around the story, 'The Darkest Dark' by Chris Hadfield. Our first lesson was an oracy based lesson. We made predictions about the book using the front cover and explored a range of images linked to the text. The children used all the skills they have been learning to support them in debating questions about the images. Very well done Year 5... a great start to the unit!

Friday 14 February 2025 Survival Of The Fittest! As part of our creative, outdoor learning we took part in a series of Team Challenges. These ranged from an end of term mixed topic quiz to a plastic recycling task.

Friday 14 February 2025 Forest Jam Jars The last day of half term brought the sunshine to East Farleigh. We had a fantastic end to Forest School for another week.

Friday 14 February 2025 The Secret Garden by Mrs Davey

Monday 10 February 2025 Young Voices 2025 On Monday 3rd February, 31 of our wonderful children headed to the O2 Arena to take part in the largest children's choir in the world!

Saturday 8 February 2025 Year 1 - Collage self portraits Year 1 have been making self-portraits in the Art lessons.

Friday 7 February 2025 Chinese New Year in the EYFS This week in the EYFS we have been learning about and celebrating the Lunar New Year!

Friday 7 February 2025 Bug Hotels Welcome to our penultimate Forest School Friday blog of the term.

Friday 7 February 2025 Awesome Algebra! To introduce the tricky skill of understanding and mastering algebra we used a board game to learn the basic rules.

Friday 7 February 2025 Under the Bed by Mrs Curd

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

Friday 10 January 2025 Designer DT! After many weeks researching the 'make do and mend' principals of WW2, designing and adapting, colleting materials for upcycling, learning about sewing patterns and different sewing techniques we have finally created our final piece!

Friday 10 January 2025 Active Maths in Year 6 This week we have started our Measure topic in Maths with some fantastic connectionist learning!

Friday 10 January 2025 Presenting Maths! In maths this week, we have been learning about adding and subtracting fractions including mixed numbers. Year 5 have not only excelled at their mathematical learning but it has been so lovely to see them presenting their learning to the class. In oracy, we have been practising presenting in small groups. It is wonderful to now see how naturally the children are transferring these skills in different lessons. Well done Year 5!

Thursday 9 January 2025 Mapping out Mythology! A very exciting start to the new term in Year 5... we have been mapping out mythology! Our unit this term in writing is focused around the book, 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'by Joe Todd-Stanton. We began this week learning about Norse Mythology and discovered who some of the villains, heroes and monsters are and where they lived in the Norse world. We will be continuing to learn about mythology this term and are looking forward to writing our own myths at the end of the unit and sharing them with you.

Thursday 9 January 2025 Our First PE Lesson This week the children in the EYFS took part in their first ever PE lesson! This term we will be teaching the children a programme called BEAM, this stands for Balance, Education and Movement. The BEAM programme is designed to work children's gross motor skills, they will also have the task of following instructions and mirroring positions made by their teacher or peers.

Wednesday 8 January 2025 Observing the world around us Year 4 have had a busy first week back, this week, getting stuck into their new geography topic Misty mountain, winding river and continuing their discovery of states of matter.

Friday 20 December 2024 The Jolly Christmas Postman By Mrs Hodges

Friday 20 December 2024 Dasher By Mrs Skinner

Friday 20 December 2024 Merry Christmas Class Two!

Friday 20 December 2024 Christmas in Year 4 Ho, ho, ho! We've had a ball celebrating Christmas in Year 4 over the last few weeks! From a delicious turkey dinner, to questionable jumpers. From marshmallow towers to Grinch mathematical code breaking we've had a great time getting into the festive spirits!

Thursday 19 December 2024 It's the most wonderful time of the Year! It has been an incredibly exciting time in the EYFS over the past two weeks, we have immersed ourselves in all things Christmas and although there has been an incredible amount of fun and play, the learning certainly has not stopped!

Thursday 19 December 2024 Designing a market garden This week we have used all the disciplinary skills we have been learning about in geography to design our own market garden in our 'Innovate Journal'. We had to decide a suitable location and give a six-figure grid reference using an ordnance survey map. We then had to describe the geographical features of our site and why we had chosen it. We used our knowledge of seasonality to create a planting and growing plan and decided how we would transport our goods using the transport links in our local area. Well done Year 5 - you are 'Great Geographers!'

Thursday 19 December 2024 Year 5 Autumn Term Art Gallery Year 5 have worked incredibly hard this term on their final 'Expressionism' pieces. Here are a sample of their amazing pieces of art...

Monday 16 December 2024 Class Two's Christmas Kindness

Friday 13 December 2024 Yr 6 Science: Fascinating Fossils

Friday 13 December 2024 Y4 Pharaoh presentations This week we've been discovering the role, responsibilities and duties of Ancient Egypt's Pharaohs.

Friday 13 December 2024 Our First Nativity! We are so proud of our littlest learners in the EYFS for performing in their very first Nativity! They shone so brightly and sang so beautifully. Thank you to all the parents and extended family that came to watch and support us!

Friday 13 December 2024 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse By Mrs Fuller

Wednesday 11 December 2024 UK and it's Capital Cities Class One have been learning about the four countries of the UK and their capital cities.

Friday 6 December 2024 Elder Pencil Anyone?

Friday 6 December 2024 Class One's New Recruit! Class One received a letter from Father Christmas about a new recruit!

Friday 6 December 2024 Brilliant Creative Home Learning in Year 6! We have had another creative home learning task this week and Year 6 have certainly risen to the challenge!

Friday 6 December 2024 Year Three in the Woods! Forest School with Year Three

Friday 6 December 2024 The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List By Mr Amos

Friday 6 December 2024 Brrrr! We're off to the Arctic! This week in the EYFS we have been learning all about animals that live in the Arctic and Antarctic! We have located these places on a map and had a sensory ice tray as part of our Understanding The World learning, made polar bear collages as part of our Creative Art and Design learning, looked at numerals and finding the corresponding amount of 'marshmallows' for hot chocolate in Maths, wrote about and drew our favourite arctic animals in Writing, played with small world animals to develop our personal, social and emotional skills and worked out fine motor skills by making igloos out of blocks and Lego!

Friday 29 November 2024 Diva Lamps for Diwali! The children in the EYFS enjoyed making their own Diva Lamps as part of our Diwali focus. We learnt about the significance of the Diva lamps and how they are used to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light as part of our Understanding the World topic. The children worked their fine motor skills to shape the clay around a tea light, they learnt that if they use the warmth from their hands to warm up the dough, it would become more malleable. Then we got creative with the metallic paints! To further develop their Creative Art & Design skills, the children were given the choice of different metallic colours and used brushes to paint them in many different, beautiful designs.

Friday 29 November 2024 Square VS Cube This week, we began to explore the different properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Friday 29 November 2024 Got Your Nose! By Miss Walsh

Thursday 28 November 2024 Super Science! We had a fantastic time this week experimenting with light and shadows. We wanted to explore how shadows changes throughout the day depending on the position of the sun. It was amazing to see how the shadows shortened when the 'sun' (our torch) were at their shortest when the light was right over our object.

Wednesday 27 November 2024 This is Me training This week, Mrs Hodges and Mr Amos were delighted to attend the This is Me training at Aylesford Priory. The idyllic was home to a host of SENCOs and staff from a range of both primary and secondary settings all there to discover more about This is Me, the new route to referral and diagnosis for neurodivergent young people.

Wednesday 27 November 2024 A lesson from the best! Year 1 were given a PE masterclass from athlete Ryan Raghoo.

Friday 22 November 2024 The Smeds and The Smoos by Mrs Chapman

Friday 22 November 2024 Dia de los Muertos The EYFS had a fantastic week learning all about Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the Mexican celebration of life.

Friday 22 November 2024 Saw Team-work & Firebuilding For today's forest school news, please check out my little video to see what we have done. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the brisk fresh air.

Friday 22 November 2024 Tune in to Y4 FM! This term in computing, the whole school is following the Creating Media strand of the Teach Computing curriculum. In Year 4, we have been exploring an increasingly popular form of media - podcasts! Having learnt about what a podcast is, we have been using Wave-pad to record our audio before exploring how we can re-record and edit the recording, inspect the soundwaves view to understand where we can trim the audio and explored the impact effects can have on our voices.

Tuesday 19 November 2024 Year 1 - 3D shape sorting Year 1 have been learning about shapes this week.

Friday 15 November 2024 Swallows and Amazons By Mr Goodman

Friday 15 November 2024 Remembrance and Poppies in the EYFS We have had a very special week in the EYFS learning all about Remembrance Day, why it is important that we mark this occasion every year and the symbolism of the Poppy.

Friday 15 November 2024 Children in Need in the EYFS! The children have had a fantastic day today, we learnt why the charity Children In Need do the work they do and we had lots of Pudsey themed activities to enjoy! I think the best (and tastiest!) part of the day was making Pudsey biscuits - yum yum!

Friday 15 November 2024 Friendship cupcakes This week, we were visited by SALUS, who delivered a wonderful workshop on the importance of friendship. We compared a good friendship to a cupcake, in that many ingredients needed to work well together to ensure the cake (friendship) is good! We discussed what ingredients a good friendship would need- love, kindness, sharing, care, respect, laughter, trust, liking the same games, fun and feeling safe to name a few!

Friday 15 November 2024 Introducing Nugget.... We had a fabulous day today making some DIY bird feeders. We have a resident Robin the children have now named 'Nugget'. He attends all forest school sessions and sings us a lovely song.

Friday 15 November 2024 Dinner time for the birds of East Farleigh Well, it's been a hoot and a half for our forest school and outdoor learning day in Year 4! Our little fledglings have been flapping their creative wings in forest school. Armed with saws, drills, and a whole lot of enthusiasm, they've been busy building bird feeders for our feathered friends in East Farleigh. After all, it's not just us humans who appreciate a good dinner time!

Wednesday 13 November 2024 To Space and Beyond... Year 5 have begun their learning about Space in Science. They began by researching information about Tim Peake and then presenting their findings during our class oracy assembly.

Wednesday 13 November 2024 Year 5 Fabulous Flowers! Year 5 have been learning about parts of the flower in Science. Over half term the children created 3D models of a flower to help them remember their learning. Here are some of their amazing creations!

Friday 8 November 2024 The Bookshop Cat By Mrs Collins

Friday 8 November 2024 Help Class Two catch this Naughty Nibbler!

Friday 8 November 2024 Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes This week in the EYFS we have learnt all about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate Bonfire Night! The children loved learning about the Gunpowder Plot and were fascinated by the gunpowder being hidden underneath the Houses of Parliament!

Friday 8 November 2024 Nibbles the Book Monster arrives in Year 1! There have been some strange things going on in Year 1 this week!

Friday 8 November 2024 A Remembrance Service to Remember The whole school gathered this morning for a very special service of Remembrance outside where we were joined by Rifleman Myles Rundall, who is uncle to our very own Aurora and Scarlett. Rifleman Rundall beautifully bugled The Last Post and an immaculately observed 2 minutes silence followed. The children were immaculately behaved and it really was a moving moment which allowed us to collectively reflect and remember those whom had sacrificed so much. I read out the exhortation:

Friday 8 November 2024 Stickman in the Forest School (with Reception Class!) It's been a grey cold day, but this did not by any means dampen the spirits of EYFS! All the children have had a lovely day out in the fresh air.

Friday 8 November 2024 Launch into Dodgeball... This week we thoroughly enjoyed our special PE lesson with Ant (a PE specialist). He was really fun and he introduced lots of new skills and techniques to help us with our new topic: Dodgeball!

Friday 8 November 2024 A Special Rememberance! Today we welcomed Scarlett T's uncle to the school for our Rememberance Service. He played the bugle, sounding the Last Post out across a perfectly silent and reflective playground. This experience was very special, poignant and made us think even more about all our learning surrounding World War 1.

Friday 8 November 2024 What's the matter? This week, we encouraged our students to explore the concept of matter in its various forms. We discovered that matter can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas. For instance, children observed how ice (a solid) melts into water (a liquid) and how water can then turn into steam (a gas) when heated. This exploration helped them grasp the idea that all matter is made up of tiny particles that behave differently depending on their state.

Thursday 7 November 2024 Let there be light! Year 3 have been busy during science investigating how different amounts of light effect what we can and can't see! We were surprised at how little light we needed to work out what the objects in the boxes were"

Tuesday 5 November 2024 Finding our way at Orienteering club Welcome to the Orienteering Club at East Farleigh Primary, where our young explorers learn the fine art of map reading and navigating their way through the great outdoors. If you’ve ever seen your child attempt to find their way back from the school playground, you’ll know this is a skill that could come in handy! We turn those puzzled looks into triumphant smiles as they master the map setting and develop orienteering skills that will make even the most seasoned adventurer proud.

Friday 25 October 2024 Our Term 1 Trophy Winners A huge congratulation to our Autumn Term 1 trophy winners. From left to right, recipients of the Values Cup, KS1 Merit Cup, KS2 Merit Cup and Buddy Cup respectively. Well done to you all.

Friday 25 October 2024 Leaves & Pumpkin Forest Fest Today was the last day of term. What a fabulous way to end it - with the year 1's doing Forest School!

Friday 25 October 2024 Wonderful Writers in Yr 6 And finally... We have published our incredible diary entires depicting the wild adventures of Annie Eddison- Taylor!

Friday 25 October 2024 A Special Treat! In Year 6, we all enjoyed a special Half-Term Hot Chocolate - we especially enjoyed all the different toppings! A special treat to celebrate all the hard work and dedication shown this term - Happy Half Term Everyone! x

Friday 25 October 2024 Awesome Artwork! We have had a lovey arty day, enjoying a bit of fun and creative freedom! The sketch books are already looking incredible and I can't wait to see their final piece...watch this space!

Friday 25 October 2024 Happy Halloween! The children have thoroughly enjoyed ending the term with a week all about Halloween! We have made potions and Halloween soup, did some pumpkin printing and cauldron paintings, role played as Halloween characters, wrote some Halloween themed CVC words and many more exciting activities!

Friday 25 October 2024 Pasta Dinosaurs Year 1 have made dinosaur skeletons using different types of pasta. Can you tell what dinosaurs they are?

Thursday 24 October 2024 PINs Project As you may already be aware, our school has been chosen to be part of the PINS pilotproject. Please see these FAQs about the pilot.

Friday 18 October 2024 All about Autumn! Today was all about Autumn in Class 2.

Friday 18 October 2024 Autumnal Leaves

Friday 18 October 2024 Autumn Time This week in the EYFS we have been exploring all things Autumn! The children have enjoyed a range of different activities in their child initiated using a wealth of natural Autumnal objects.

Wednesday 16 October 2024 Cool Rules for Computing Class 1 have been creating posters showing how we can stay safe on electronic devices.

Wednesday 16 October 2024 Exploring Expressionism This week we have continued our art unit 'Expressionism'. We have been working with different colour schemes to see the impact this has on our portrait work. Year 5 have worked so hard and produced some amazing work in their sketch books. We are really looking forward now to completing our final pieces over the next month.

Sunday 13 October 2024 Year 6 - Using arrays and cube links to problem solve This week, Year 6 have been creating arrays to solve prime number problems. Students commented that the arrays helped them to work out if a number was a prime number because they would only be able to make two arrays if it is a prime number.

Friday 11 October 2024 We're Going on a Bear Hunt... This week we have been discussing journeys, our book this week is the classic 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen and the children have enjoyed lots of activities based on the story!

Friday 11 October 2024 Our Amazing Playleaders

Friday 11 October 2024 Year 1 - settings and characters - which ones shall we choose?

Friday 11 October 2024 Incredible Home Learning in Year 6! This week we have been quite literally blown away with the creativity, knowledge and dedication to their home learning/ project work!

Thursday 10 October 2024 Forest School Year Three Fantastic day today. Mrs Le Beaus hosted Year Three's forest school day today and the children had a brilliant time creating pumpkin art and brewing hot chocolate. We also painted leaves, went on a scavenger hunt, did observational drawings of leaves and tried our hand at worm charming! Yes that IS a thing! The aim is to find a way to convince the worms to come out of the soil - Well done to Rex, Henry, Betsy Jane and Eloise who were the worm charming winners!

Thursday 10 October 2024 Pumpkin Time

Thursday 10 October 2024 Oracy meets science As we move towards the end of our science learning, all about sound, we wanted to recap some of the key vocabulary and concepts we've covered so far this term. We were challenged to explore ways we could make links between cards such as insulation, vibration, volume, quieter, louder and sound wave. The children all developed different ideas and used their oracy sentence stems (I disagree with X because ..., so are you saying ...? and why do you think ...?).

Tuesday 8 October 2024 Cross Country - Friday 4th October 2024

Monday 7 October 2024 Amazing Ammonites Ammonite Art -

Monday 7 October 2024 Cross Country - Friday 4th October 2024

Monday 7 October 2024 Quiz Night November 2024

Sunday 6 October 2024 Super Self-Portraits Year 1 have been practicing their keyboard and mouse skills by typing their name and drawing a picture of themselves.

Saturday 5 October 2024 ASDA Cashpot for Schools

Friday 4 October 2024 Halloween Disco The Juniors Halloween Disco will be held on Friday 25th October, 5:00pm-6:30pm in the school hall.

Friday 4 October 2024 Year 5 Sow, Grow, Farm

Friday 4 October 2024 Forest School & Outdoor Learning in Yr 6! What a wonderful day! We have thoroughly enjoyed a wide selection of creative outdoor activities and the sunshine! Today we split the class in 2, with half the class completing Forest School activities in the morning and half class on the field, learning outdoors. Today the activities included: wood cookie pendants, a science/nature audit of the local area, a camp fire and hot chocolate, mini habitats and lot of team work! We have been so very impressed with the oracy skills on display today - keep it up everyone!

Friday 4 October 2024 Y6's Wood cookies....

Friday 4 October 2024 Magnificent Mini-beasts This term, Class Two have been learning about Living Things and what is necessary for their survival. This week, we refined our knowledge of habitats by exploring microhabitats. We considered what microhabitats we might find within our school grounds, and made predictions about which mini-beasts we might find living there. We decided it would be best to explore the field, gardens and Forest School area.

Friday 4 October 2024 Islamic tiles in Year 4 Our exploration of Islamic Art has seen us produce some stunning Islamic inspired tiles this week. We further developed our clay skills, from Year 3, by using slip to help smooth and glue elements together.

Thursday 3 October 2024 Magnificent Me! The children in the EYFS have been busy creating self-portraits over the last week. I'm sure you will agree they have done an absolutely brilliant job and their art work has made our corridor so bright and inviting.

Tuesday 1 October 2024 Forest School -Year 5 27th September 2024

Tuesday 1 October 2024 The Colour Monster This week in the EYFS our topic is 'My Emotions' and our book is 'The Colour Monster'. The children have loved listening to the story and identifying the different emotions felt within the book. We have had discussions about times when we have felt those feelings and ways we can work through them.

Monday 30 September 2024 Rocking our times tables! This week we have started with Times Tables Rockstars, and the children are loving it! Every child has a log in they can use at home as well as school - I wonder who will win the first TTRS badge! Good luck everyone!

Monday 30 September 2024 Year 6 - Delving into the causes of WW1 History, WW1, Year 6

Friday 27 September 2024 What will keep us dry?

Friday 27 September 2024 Super Science in Yr 6! This week we have looked at classification with the use of observation, questioning and identification we have created a range of dichotomous keys. We have also started looking at the micro world of bacteria; we have an ongoing experiment on our windowsill, testing how well we have washed our hands...watch this space for the shocking results!

Wednesday 25 September 2024 Making the most of the outdoors! We have been getting outdoors and soaking up the sunshine in the EYFS over the last week. We have been working on our gross motor skills on the climbing equipment and spent time on the astro doing a circle time where we spoke about our senses and all the wonderful things we could see, hear, smell and feel in nature. We have also been loving our outdoor area, making some dinosaur shadow art, constructing obstacle courses and of course cooling down in the water tray!

Monday 23 September 2024 Waddle we discover? Year 2's Penguin Detectives are on the case!

Monday 23 September 2024 It's all Sumerian to me! Our history learning, this week, has led us to discover how the Ancient Sumerians communicated using the first ever written language - cuneiform! We practised writing our names before sending questions and answers to each other in the ancient script.

Sunday 22 September 2024 Brilliant Bewl Water! What a wonderful time and fantastic opportunity to improve our collaboration skills! It was incredible to see all the Year 6 children full immersed in such a wide range of different activities - everyone had a go, everyone grew in confidence and everyone felt proud of their achievements - what a brilliant day!

Sunday 22 September 2024 Let's Learn to Login! This week Class One used the Chromebooks for the first time.

Sunday 22 September 2024 We Rock at rock experiments! Great investigations this week testing out different rocks to assess their permeability.

Friday 20 September 2024 Year 4 Outdoor Learning day This week we enjoyed a day of getting outside and learning outdoors. We all had an excellent forest school session with Mrs Le Beau before practising out map setting skills in orienteering. We rounded off the day giving our school garden some TLC, planting some bulbs ready for a colourful spring.

Friday 20 September 2024 Year 5 Expressionism Art

Friday 20 September 2024 Forest School Starts! It's here, we kick off our first Forest School session of the 2024/2025 school year. I am so excited to be able to share our activities and adventures with you.Forest school was first introduced in the UK 1993. It was founded in Sweden in 1982.The concept is to get children out in nature and learn from nature, build their confidence and work together.There is so much to explore and learn from the natural world.Today we took out year 4's for their first session of the school year. We had 2 sessions, one in the morning and then another after lunch. This is to ensure the whole class benefits. Groups of 15 are alot more manageable and meaningful for everyone involved.Today was all about learning how to make a den. There are so many skills involved. Our fine motor skills are put to the test, working as a team, problem solving and risk assessing. We needed to learn some basic knots - this helped us get our tarps attached to the trees and make shift 'poles'. We used tree branches found in our

Friday 20 September 2024 Buddies! This week we assigned the new EYFS children a Buddy from our Year 6 class. The children spent some time together playing in the EYFS classroom and outdoor area and getting to know each other. The Year 6 children have been amazing at looking out for the EYFS children on the playground, giving them a friendly smile and even playing together. We look forward to seeing their relationships flourish over the year, we will be awarding our Buddy Cup at the end of each term to one special Buddy Duo.

Friday 20 September 2024 Year 5 Loving Learning! What a busy week Year 5 have had with some amazing learning!

Tuesday 17 September 2024 Food for Thought! This week in the EYFS we have been using food for some sensory play. We have made some herby playdough by adding rosemary, coriander and mint to some plain dough. This activity has been great at developing the children's fine motor skills, they have used scissors to cut the herbs and playdough tools such as rolling pins and cutters to shape their dough. We also took the food outdoors and had a 'Fruit Punch' making station in the water tray! We mixed water with orange squash and gave the children oranges and apples to explore. The children used kitchen equipment to cut, mash and juice the fruit which they then mixed/whisked with the squash. The children thoroughly enjoyed role playing making and serving fruit punch and were engaged in this activity for a long time!

Monday 16 September 2024 Tasty Tectonics!

Sunday 15 September 2024 Year 6 - Making themselves feel at home This week, Year 6 have been busy (in-between all of our learning) making the classroom feel like their own.

Friday 13 September 2024 Active Outdoor Maths in Year 6! This afternoon we enjoyed the sunshine and reinforced our Maths with some active learning! We have been consolidating our learning surrounding multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 - great work everyone!

Friday 13 September 2024 Islamic art in Year 4 In year 4 we have been learning all about Islamic Art, and how simple geometric motifs can be repeated to create visually stunning patterns.

Friday 13 September 2024 The First Week for the EYFS! What a fantastic first week at school it has been for our new EYFS children! We have begun teaching Phonics straight away and this week the children have learnt the sounds 's', 'a', 't' and 'p'! They have been very keen to begin mark making and have even had a go at writing some of the sounds.

Thursday 12 September 2024 When computing meets science in Y4 Continuing our topic of 'Sound' in science this week, we explored the hypothesis What Patterns Can You Find Between the Strength of Vibrations and Volume of a Sound?. The children chose how they'd test this before recording their results using the decibel meter coded onto our Micro:Bits.

Wednesday 11 September 2024 Fossils in Farleigh! There have been some very exciting discoveries in Year 1!

Wednesday 11 September 2024 Welcome to our new website! We are finally live! We cannot wait to share even more on here in the weeks, months and years to come. We are still developing the Class areas and over the next few weeks we will be adding more information onto the 'support at home' pages in particular. Keep an eye out on the news section too which will be regularly updated - a window to our wonderful school!

Wednesday 31 July 2024 Friends 2023/2024 Round-up A round-up of the 2023/2024 school year from the Friends.

Wednesday 10 July 2024 Animation at East Farleigh Check out this awesome animation from Jack in Year 6.

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