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6 May 2025

We're Going on a Bear Hunt!

Class 1 went on a barefoot walk through the pages of the story We're Going on a Bear Hunt. 

We have been reading and acting out the story this week and we took our story outside, took our shoes and socks off and felt the different textures underneath our toes - long wavy grass, deep cold river,…

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2 May 2025

St Stephen’s by Class 1

The question we are exploring this half term in our RE sessions is ‘What happens in a church?’
 

Today, we talked about how lucky we are to have our church, St Stephen’s so close to our school and to be part of the church community.  We talked about all the different celebrations we have…

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2 May 2025

Investigating Light in Science

We have been investigating how light travels in straight lines. It reflects off a mirror according to the law of reflection. We found some darker areas in the classroom to complete this investigation before drawing and labelling our diagrams. 

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2 May 2025

Class 4 Gardening in the Sun

We helped weed and plant new vegetables in our outdoor garden.

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1 May 2025

Boccia tournament

Some of Class 3 took part in a Boccia tournament against St Mary’s. Boccia is a sport using precision to roll balls at a target and see who can stop the closest. Everyone did very well! The final score was very close, 27-30 to Anson. 
 

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30 April 2025

Planting 2025!

Today we had some help from some parent volunteers to organise our vegetable patches! We planted lots of seeds, amongst them tomato, lettuce, carrots and green beans, and we are hoping to see some of them grow before we break up for the Summer holidays! Thank you to our kind volunteers for…

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30 April 2025

Gardening in the sunshine!

What a lovely and happy time Class 1 had gardening in the outdoor classroom this afternoon. The children worked brilliantly to help tidy the beds and then had fun and took great care planting some strawberry and some different seeds.

We can’t wait to see what grows and to spend time caring for…

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30 April 2025

Class 4 - Cricket in the Sun 2025

Today we have been practising our catching, throwing and batting in PE.

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30 April 2025

Our new science adventure!

Class 2 have started their new unit in science this week… ‘Seasonal Changes’.

Luckily, thanks to last terms geography unit last term, class 2 already have lots of wonderful knowledge about our seasons and the changes we see in our environment throughout the year.

We can’t wait to explore the…

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30 April 2025

New topic, Rivers.

Our new topic this term will be a Geography focus on Rivers.

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29 April 2025

Following in the footsteps of Jesus and his disciples.

This afternoon, Class 2 took advantage of the beautiful sunshine and spent some time outside reading a parable from the bible.
The children had previously touched on the parable of The Feeding of The Five Thousand - often known as the parable of The Loaves and Fishes, within their RE lesson on…

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29 April 2025

Stilling in our lovely grounds

Today we did some 'noticing' outside. We reflected on what we were grateful for, what had stood out in our day, where we had been our best selves and any small changes we could make to balance our lives.  

As we reflected, some greenflies and a caterpillar came to greet us. We felt very…

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