The children in Puffins have been learning about Autumn. We made pictures by rolling conkers around in paint. We have also made autumn trees, hedgehogs, and prints with leaves. 

Penguins have had a great start to the week! We are learning all about Autumn time and we have had great fun exploring all of the Autumn items we collected over the weekend. 

We are looking forward to doing lots of Autumn crafts this week and going on an Autumn walk around school. 

Kingfisher class have worked really hard to produce some watercolour designs that include Mayan symbols and images that hold personal meaning to them.

The children in Puffins acted out the story of the Gingerbread Man.  "run run as fast as you can" shouted the Gingerbread Man.

Woodpeckers are thoroughly enjoying their topic on the Stone Age. They have been looking at cave art, investigating what prehistoric people ate and also taken on the roles of hunters and gatherers out in the playground.

Woodpeckers have been enjoying their art this week. As part of their topic on prehistoric art, they learnt how to sketch the outlines of various animals. In Maths, they have completed their work on place value and can now partition values in different ways.

On Friday, we had our reading cafe where we welcomed families into the school to read with the children. The children loved it and were motivated to read a selection of books to the adults. 

Thank you to everyone who came. We hope to see you again soon when we have other events in school.

Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended the Wren's reading cafe. It was fantastic to have so much support and see all the children enjoying listening to, reading and sharing stories. 

Year 5 have been learning about the movement of the Earth and other planets in the solar system.  We have been discussing how the geocentric model was widely believed to be true but how astronomers discovered the heliocentric model.  In one of our lessons we learned how the Sun's transition across the sky could allow us to tell the time of day with sun dials and we went on to make our own dials which we were then able to take home.

Year 6 have been studying Population Change in Geography, including 'Migration: Push and Pull Factors'. They thoroughly enjoyed the dramatic side of the lesson, as well as the creativity involved in designing posters. Fab work, Kings!

The children in Puffins had fun collecting conkers from Year 1's playground.

Penguins have been really interested in 'Pop-Up' books over the last week. They have been reading lots of different books in the provision. 

We decided that for our Nursery Rhyme of the Week; 'Hickory Dickory Dock' we would make our own pop-up cards!

Year 4 have been learning about what happens to food once it has been swallowed. To discover the journey the food makes, Owls and Ospreys played with an interactive digestive system and observed how the food travels through the body. 

In year 2 the children have been learning how to maniplate clay using their hands and tools. Keep an eye out for our pinch pots which will be coming soon!

Hawks and Herons classes both participated in Sports Leadership training at the end of last week.  We were very lucky and had Mr Alker from Bedford Borough School Sport Partnership come in on Thursday and Friday to teach the children how to be effective leaders and coaches.  The children will now have opportunities to use these skills when working with the younger year groups throughout their time in year 5 and also in year 6.

Year 4 made Gas Masks and name labels this week, as part of our World War 2 topic, we are looking at what it was like for children during World War 2. In particular focusing on children who had to be evacuated during the war. 

Penguins have settled in brilliantly to Reception and have really enjoyed exploring the provision. They are making lots of new friends and learning how to follow the routines of the day. 

We are very proud of how they have started school! 

Woodpeckers have had a wonderful and busy start to the school year. They have been using manipulatives to help them talk about and understand place value, learning to introduce themselves in Spanish and have also had their first 'toot' lesson of the term.

The youngest children have settled into school very well. They are making friends and having lots of fun.

Year 6 have made a fabulous start to this year's first Art topic (Make My Voice Hard): researching Mexican artist Diego Rivera and sharing knowledge of Mayan Culture from Year 5. Pupils also began working on their sketch pages and just look at some of the exceptional detail that they included...impressive or what?! They gathered various items: including cotton buds, feathers, pompoms, lolly sticks and more, to experiment with expressive mark-making, using ink. It was a fun-packed lesson and taught us all a lot! :)