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19 July 2021

Tasty treats from our garden

This week we were able to see the fruits of our labours, we harvested strawberries and broad beans from our garden.  Our wildflower meadow is looking beautiful and it looks like our sunflowers are going to be very tall by September.

What a green fingered Year One class you are.

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6 March 2021

Spring is here

The children have been working hard getting their garden ready for spring.  We hope soon to be planting flowers and vegetables, we made a great start by planting 2 apple trees, we hope that maybe next year we will have blossom on the tree to let us know it is spring. 

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5 February 2021

Make do and mend

we are so pleased with our make do and mend project during lockdown! The bags have turned out better than we could of imagined.  We used scraps of material we found around the school and have given them a new life! As you can see from the pictures the children are very happy with the results!…

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25 September 2020

Out and about in nature.

This week, despite the weather, we have been trying to get out and about and explore nature.  We have been gaining first hand experience to write our own out and about poems.  We used all our senses and thought of lots of great describing words for our poem.  We also found lots of creative ways to…

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2 March 2020

Counting the money we raised.

Today we really had to use all of our maths skills to work out how much money we had raised on Friday.  We needed to sort the coins, and work out how many we needed of each coin to make £1.  We used our ten frames to help us group the money in 10’s to make it easier to count.  We were really…

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29 February 2020

Raising money to support protecting coral reefs.

We made sea creature biscuits to sell to the rest of the school so that we can adopt a turtle. The WWF help to protect coral reefs and the creatures that live there. Turtles are important to the coral reef ecosystem because they eats the sponges and algae that can overrun a reef.  Turtles are an…

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25 February 2020

Plastic, plastic, plastic!

Over half term we asked children to collect their plastic bottle lids so we could find out how many plastic bottles were used by the families at our school in just 1 week.  23 families brought in their bottle lids and we got busy counting.  It was a great opportunity for us to practise grouping in…

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5 February 2020

Amazing day at the aquarium...

WOW! What a fantastic day we have had.  We saw all kinds of amazing sea creatures and learned lots about how important it is to look after the oceans and keep all the different creatures safe and healthy.  We loved seeing the very clever seals doing their tricks, we spotted clown fish, puffa fish,…

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5 February 2020

Carlton Certificates

Well done to all of the children on receiving their certificates for Carlton Adventure! It's lovely to see how proud you all are of your achievements and we are too. What a fantastic day!

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3 February 2020

Carlton Adventure

We had a fantastic day building teamwork skills, resilience and perseverance. We took part in a variety of events, orienteering, climbing, gully walking and shelter building.

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17 January 2020

Aquarium Trip

I have booked the aquarium visit.  Details of the trip are on the letter in your child’s book bag.  Please check the letter and return the slip with your packed lunch choices, Thank you. If your child did not bring home their letter please come and chat to me on Monday and I’ll send home another…

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12 December 2019

Delicious Christmas Dinner

We all enjoyed our Christmas dinner, a huge thank you to Mrs Derwent and all the kitchen staff who work so hard to make a yummy dinner today and every day!

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