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Numbers day in year 3

Year 3 ‘dressed up for digits’ in number-themed costumes for the charity NSPCC and took on problem solving, critical thinking and logical reasoning through practical maths games. We opened up a shop where year 3 were customers or shop keepers and had to buy and sell items, give change and calculate totals.

Year 3 enjoyed a practical learning approach which made learning about money fun and enjoyable.

Trip to Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery

Year 5 travelled to Shrewsbury today to take part in a printing workshop at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. We studied some of the buildings of Shrewsbury, then planned what our prints would look like. We then created the templates and experimented with different colours of ink. We had some lovely creations!

As well as this, we had the opportunity to explore the museum too. There were different sections, including Shropshire, The Romans and Medieval Shropshire. We learnt lots!

Safer Internet Day 2025

We marked Safer Internet Day today with a variety of activities. The theme this year is: ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘. We gathered in the hall for an assembly led by our Digital Leaders. They ‘scammed’ children into thinking they were winning some tempting prizes, but actually there were some bad consequences! The message was that if things are too good to be true…they often are!

Later on, EYFS used songs and small world play to tell the stories about being safe. KS1 took part in a variety of different activities and KS2 took part in the BBC Live Lesson where we had to identify the signs of a scam.

We even got a shout out on the BBC news feed!

Numbers Day in Nursery!

In nursery we celebrated by dressing up and welcoming our parents to a special assembly all about numbers.

We sang and chanted songs and showed our parents how each song could help with a different aspect of mathematics. We repeated stem sentences and looked at the models and images we use.

We also chatted about subitising and it’s importance in our curriculum.

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt . . .

We explore stories from our unique reading spine in a variety of ways in order to develop vocabulary and understanding.

Today the children in nursery splashed in water, squelched in mud and stumbled through trees in order to find a bear!

We were also able to innovate the story as the grass was not long and wavy. The children described it as, “short and frosty!” We also added ice to the story and slipped and slid on it!

This also inspired mark-making.

Raising Money for Severn Hospice

Before Christmas, the staff baked lots of tasty treats for a series of coffee mornings to raise money for Severn Hospice. Nikki, from the charity, came in to say thank you today for the total money raised which was £204. The charity do amazing work and to find out more then please see here: Home – Severn Hospice

Crumble Fairground Rides

To complete our Computing unit this term, Year 5 are coding and creating their own fairground rides. They had to make the sparkle flash green for go, then start spinning using a motor and then flash red when it was stopping. Everybody worked very hard and should be proud of their creations!

C is for Community

This term in the EYFS the children are exploring the overarching theme of community.

The role-play area has been enhanced to enable children to show what they know about shops and supermarkets. Their language is being extended as they learnt about receipts, cashiers and aisles. It is also a rich opportunity to explore purposeful mark-making during play as children write shopping lists, receipts and food labels. The children have also been learning about foods and cultural foods eaten by the families we serve.

Children are being taught directly about shops during small group sessions in which they have shared information books, listened to environmental sounds in shops and learnt poems about key concepts such as trolleys.

The children in Reception are visiting a local shop in order to gain even more knowledge that they can use and apply in their acting.