Welcome to our Wellbeing Warriors 2025-2026
Today our Wellbeing Warriors gathered together for their first meeting. We looked at their role and what it involves across our school family. Lottie, Scarlett, Lana and Naomi can’t wait to get started and roll out lots of upcoming events like Hello Yellow Day for World Mental Health Day on 10th October. We are super excited about continuing with our Walk to School initiative and encourage everyone to try and gain even more badges than last year!
Year 2 Art- Exploring Clay
Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed their art lesson this week, exploring the creative possibilities of clay. They had the opportunity to manipulate the material through rolling, flattening, pinching, and marking. They are already looking forward to our next lesson.
Year 2 PE- Moving, Jumping and Landing
This week in PE, Year 2 focused on developing their jumping and landing skills. They practised both straight jumps and star jumps, concentrating on using the correct technique. Pupils worked hard to land safely—on the balls of their feet, with bent knees and arms forward to help maintain balance. Well done, Year 2, for your fantastic effort and focus!
Year 2 Maths- Telling the Time to the Hour and Half Past the Hour
Year 2 have enjoyed learning to tell the time to the hour and half past the hour on an analogue clock. They have not only practised reading and making times, but have also worked hard to draw their own clock hands—carefully distinguishing between the shorter hour hand and the longer minute hand.
Year 2 Maths- Using Manipulatives to Build and Represent Numbers
In Maths this week, Year 2 have been revisiting and deepening their understanding of how to use manipulatives—such as Rekenreks, Base 10, and ten frames—to build and represent numbers.
Reception - Self Portraits
This week, Reception have been looking at their facial features in order to paint self-portraits. We talked about features such as eye colour and how they are all different to each other. We used mirrors to look at our own features so we could select the correct colours to use for our paintings.
Year 4 - Class Worship
This week, in our class worship, we looked again at Lisa and Bishop Philip’s worship about living out God’s big story. We looked at our big frieze and recapped the story, using the pictures to help us. We discussed how Bishop Philip lives out God’s big story and shared ideas about how we could do this in our daily lives. Towards the end of our worship, the children shared their favourite parts of the big story, explaining the reasons for their choices. Here are some of their ideas: “I like Kingdom of God because it’s about everyone getting along.” “I like Creation because it’s reminds me of nature.”
Year 4 - Music: Glockenspiels
This half term, the Year 4 music topic is songwriting with glockenspiels. In this introductory lesson, the children found out a bit about glockenspiels. They then explored some famous soundtracks and learned about how they are written to enhance the events in specific parts of the films and create an emotive response.
Year 5 - French
In French, Year 5 revisited various topics from previous years such as greetings, places, numbers and questions. Future lessons will explore hobbies and free time.
Year 1 PE: Gymnastics
In our Gymnastics unit, we practiced different jumps: star jumps, pencil jumps and tuck jumps. We then used this jumps to create a sequence which also incorporated holding a still shape and travelling, such as skipping, running or crawling.
Year 4 - PE: Passes and Dribbles
In our first Tuesday PE session, the Year 4s practised and showed off their new passing and dribbling skills. They learned about preparing to pass and stepping into the pass. They also learned how to use their fingers to bounce the ball with force. The children finished the lesson with a handball-style game to demonstrate their skill development.
Year 3 - Computing with Junior Jam- Writing a blog
Yesterday in computing with Junior Jam, Year 3 were introduced to digital tools for collaboration and communication. They started with blogs, discussing their origins, structure, and how to create them. They then analyzed several different blogs to understand how they're used for various purposes. The children were then paired up and tasked with writing their own blog post on a topic of their choice, applying what they learned about creating a successful blog. Thank you Mr Wray for a great first week of computing!