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23/9/16 Good to be Green Assembly

Each week we celebrate all of our good behaviour in assembly. All children who have stayed on green all week get to add a sticker to their ‘consistently good behaviour’ certificates. Eventually, when they have 15 stickers they receive a BIG treat. Each classes stars are also celebrated. This is usually two per class. These […]

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Science

Our new Science topic is ‘Plants’. This week we have all planted our own plants and we are learning how to take care of them. Next week we are going on nature walks to discover different types of trees and flowers. Below are a few photos from our planting afternoon.

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National Elephant Appreciation 2016

On Thursday 22nd September, Puffin class celebrated ‘National Elephant Appreciation Day’. They started the day with a ‘SHABANG’. Throughout the day they read elephant stories, completed elephant art, did elephant writing and played elephant games. Please pop into class to see our elephant display. Below I have posted a few photos from the day. Enjoy! […]

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Whole School Newsletter

Each week we like to keep you up to date with our whole school newsletter. We no longer send paper copies of these as we are trying to be eco-friendly. Please find the latest two attached below. Click here for 15th September newsletter. Click for here 23rd September newsletter. Please check each week for the most up to […]

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Good to be Green

This year we have launched our new ‘Good to be Green’ Behaviour System. This system focusses on rewarding all of the good behaviour we see daily. Children start each lesson on green. If children break any of our school rules they get a verbal warning. After a verbal warning, they are given a yellow card. […]

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Pirate Pete Keeps Fit

This week in Literacy, Puffin class have been focussing on the book ‘ Pirate Pete Keeps Fit’. We learnt new exercises and invented some of our own to help Pete get fit. We learnt about healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle and then wrote to Pete telling him what we had found out and explaining […]

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Reception Phonics

Reception children have started learning their first sounds. This week they have learnt the satpin sounds. We have been practising finding things with these sounds, saying these sounds and learning their actions. We have also been practising forming these letters cursively.   It is very important that we use pure sounds. Here is a video […]

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International Dot Day

On Thursday 15th September, Puffin class celebrated Dot Day. We read the book ‘The Dot’ which taught us we can be whatever we want and we can achieve whatever we want to! We then did lots of dotty activities. Here is a peek at some things we got up to.  

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PE

Puffin class enjoyed their first PE lesson today. This term they are focussing on ball skills. Here’s a peek at what they got up to.    

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Pirate Trip

Puffin class have an exciting adventure booked! We are going to Beaumanor Hall on Tuesday 8th November to have a pirates day. Please find full details of the trip on the letter attached  here. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you, Miss Bestwick

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