On Monday, Year 1, Year 2 and the Reception children joined together in the Tree Lighting Assembly, hosted by the Pupil Chaplaincy Team. It was a beautiful, reflective assembly which was a great start to…
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Year 1 – Making ROCKETS – linked to our topic this half term
Today, the Year 1 children brought their Computing knowledge, as well as using their Design & Technology skills to life. They have been planning and designing a rocket on the i-pads and they created a…
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Year 1 have continued to learn about Space travel through the decades. The children thought very carefully about what an astronaut would need in space and then they watched a female astronaut actually in space,…
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This week is Anti-Bullying Week – The theme this year is ‘Choose Respect’. The children came to school on Tuesday wearing odd socks. This celebrated that we are all different and that we should respect…
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Year 1 have been learning about Judaism this week. We had a visit on Tuesday from Rabbi Zvi a Jewish leader from St. Albans synagogue, who taught the children all about the Jewish faith. You…
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A super, fun-packed final week of this half term. We started the week with our trip to Clarence Park, which we had been planning through our Geography lessons. We have been looking at maps and…
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Inspired by our Poetry Day last week, we have created a collaborate piece of Art work: We are all different, but we all count. Once we finished our creative pattern designs, we put them together…
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Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed our English learning, based on The Tiger That Came to Tea, by Judith Kerr. Earlier this week, the children wrote invitations to someone that they they thought deserved a treat,…
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This week the whole school enjoyed their first Catholic Social Teaching Assembly and lesson: Community & Participation. The core message was “You shall love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than this.”…
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Year 1 – Our first full week in school has been a busy one. In Maths we have been learning about positional language – the children completed some tasks in their Maths books, but also…
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