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  • World Book Day

    Published 05/03/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Today, Team O had an amazing time celebrating reading! Throughout the day, the children took part in lots of fun, book-themed activities - some of our children even joined an amazing dance workshop with Ms Prince and author Em Cosh. One of
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  • Observational Drawings

    Published 02/03/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Today we learnt about the Dutch artist Harmen Steenwijck. We studied his still-life paintings and discussed the elements of these. We then applied what we had learnt to create our own observational drawings of teeth and jaw bones. We spent a long tim
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  • Respect and tolerance

    Published 27/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Today in class we talked about how to disagree respectfully. We learnt that we don’t have to agree with someone to treat them kindly. As long as a person’s opinion isn’t hurting anyone or breaking the rules, we can respect their rig
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  • The Speaker Competition

    Published 27/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    The Speaker is an oracy competition where pupils prepare and deliver a speech of up to two minutes on a set topic, without props or presentations. Class winners compete across the school, with four advancing to represent the school, and two overall w
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  • Petitions!

    Published 27/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Today we recapped that good people can sometimes make bad choices. We talked about how everyone makes mistakes, and one poor decision doesn’t always mean someone is a bad person. We also discussed how people can disagree very strongly about thi
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  • World Book Day 2026!

    Published 13/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    This years World Book Day is on Thursday 5th March and the Theme is 'Go All in!'. It’s all about finding your own way to enjoy reading - whether that’s through fantasy, facts, comics, mysteries, poetry, or anything else
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  • Chapter 28!

    Published 13/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    This term, Year 4 have been immersed in the beautiful story of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Inspired by Edward’s journey, the children have been crafting their own powerful narratives. Today, we proudly publishe
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  • Positives and pitfalls of AI

    Published 11/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Online Safety Day 2026 – Exploring AI: Positives and Pitfalls As part of Online Safety Day 2026, our students took part in a special online lesson focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The session explored both the exciting opportunities
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  • Safer Internet Day

    Published 06/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Safer Internet Day 2026 – 10th February We’re excited to share that Safer Internet Day 2026 will take place on Tuesday 10th February  2026! This globally recognised event encourages children, families and schools to think about ho
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  • Number Day!

    Published 06/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Today we celebrated numbers! Children in Years 4, 5 and 6 moved between teachers and classrooms to take part in a range of maths challenges and investigations. Working in teams, they used problem-solving, reasoning, communication and collaboration sk
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  • Beat the Flood and GloGerm

    Published 05/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    We had an amazing Year 4 Glo Germ workshop today with Dr Hollie Burrell-Saward! She studies microbes and told us all about her research while showing us how germs spread. Using a safe glowing gel and a UV light, we could see exactly where germs hide
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  • Microbits and School of Noise!

    Published 04/02/26, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Today, year 4 took part in a micro:bit workshop. A micro:bit is a small computer that we can code to do different things. During the workshop, we learnt how to write simple code to make the micro:bit work, such as lighting up the LEDs, showing messag
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