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• 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 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!
• 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!
• 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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