Having worked with an artist, a musician, an actor and a film producer, the talented actors of Green Class have created wonderful puppets, composed music, learnt acting skills and made story-boards for a film called The Recycled man.…
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How many schools can say they have a resident hedgehog? Our children, led by members of the school council, have developed the grounds over the years with wild areas, different habitat, homes (bird boxes, hedgehog houses and ponds)…
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The Science Garden is coming together with three completed ponds. The children in After School Club and School Councillors have added plants and rocks and started to look at the wildlife which is taking home in this new habitat. The…
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Blue Class had a fabulous day exploring a jewel of a local nature reserve RSPB Leighton Moss. They were brilliantly taught by the RSPB staff and the children learnt a lot about animals - in particular invertebrates - in pond and orchard…
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Children in Years 5 and 6 have had workshops about puberty as part of our new Health and Relationships Education. These sessions, separate for boys and girls, were well led by experienced staff from Coram Life Education (the same team…
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Year 4 enjoyed an insightful, engaging and fact filled session with staff from United Utilities. This creative approach to learning fit with their geography and science based topic on water. It looked at the water cycle, water usage…
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Yellow Class have had a fantastic week making Creepy Crawly Minibeast hand puppets. First, we looked at some examples and shared what we liked and did not like. Next, we designed our own and planned what we would use to make our puppets…
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At Willow Lane we have been learning about the importance of bees in the role they play in pollinating many of our plants - both flowers and food. On World Bee Day (https://www.worldbeeday.org/en/), we have learnt about the role we can…
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What wonderful pieces of art our children have produced as part of their science and geography rich topic The Rainforest. Indigo Class have been influenced by the artist Henri Rousseau to create vivid green background scenes of the…
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On World Bee Day we had a brilliant time! Mr MacKinnon came in and showed us a bee hive and also brought lots of special equipment. We learnt lots about the bees habitat. Mr MacKinnon told us that this was a man-made habitat but bees…
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