Month: June 2019

Year 5 used clay to make replica Greek pots in their design and technology lessons this term. They made the pots by hand and let the clay air dry, then painted them with Ancient Greek designs. Some of them looked very authentic.

We couldn’t have asked for better weather for our trip today. Sweatshirts off, sun hats on and off we went to the farm. Fran, our guide for the day met us in the coach park. We left our lunch in a safe place so that the birds couldn’t eat it and we had a safety…

There was a real buzz in the air in the morning as the children and teachers were so excited about visiting their classroom and meeting their form teacher for September. With Mrs Doig Reception 2019 listened to the story ‘What I Like’ and shared with their friends what they would like.  They found out that…

This week Year 2 had the opportunity to visit Pizza Express in Camberley. It was a fantastic trip and the children learnt lots about Margarita Pizzas! They all made their very own pizzas and they looked very yummy! The children all behaved brilliantly and received a headmasters plus for behaving well and being polite. We…

Year 5 visited Corrina Lodge care home on Friday for their art competition. The children first gave a presentation about their French trip, which was enjoyed by everyone there. Then it was time for the results of the art competition. The residents have enjoyed looking at the children’s art work and voted for their favourite…

Green Up Your Act visited us this week to deliver a Green Shoots workshop – focusing on how we can reduce emissions from the transport of our food. We talked briefly about how our food is transported and where it comes from, and compared British products to ones found globally. Should we always buy British?…

On Monday 17th June, the children had a great opportunity to learn facts about some farm animals as they were visited by a mobile farm. The farmer showed them different types of eggs and let them stroke a cockerel, a gosling, and a duck. The children were allowed to go inside a pen with donkeys,…

Cooling Off in Summer Air Products came to visit us and with them they brought all sorts of science goodies – including a freezing tank of liquid nitrogen! They ran demonstrations and workshops for the school, and the children got the opportunity to learn about the freezing points of liquids and gases, about the conductivity…

Year 5 have safely returned from their three day trip to Normandy, France. Leaving school at 5am (!) on Tuesday morning, we journeyed to Portsmouth where we boarded the Mont St. Michel ferry to start our six hour crossing to Caen. Breakfast and lunch were enjoyed on board and a film ‘Incredibles 2’, a spot…

What a Week in Wales… Year 6 returned from their Wales trip, thoroughly exhausted but riding their continued excitement. So much happened over the 5 days it’s difficult to know what to recap. Over all 5, we dined on the breakfast and dinner of Kings – wonderful home cooked food was presented tom us each…