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Skeletons with Year 3K, by Mrs Harris
Date: 8th Feb 2025 @ 3:33pm
Year 3K had a fun afternoon learning about the human skeleton! We learnt that the human body is made up of 206 bones! We borrowed a body (thanks Locklyn!) and labelled some key bones such as the skull, rib cage, spine, pelvis and femur. We learnt that the skeleton helps to protect our organs, helps our bodies to move and provides support.
Y2 Mars Rover Workshop, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:50pm
Wow!!! Thank you to Hi Impact for such a hands-on, exciting workshop!
We learnt all about how to use coding to create robots and set instructions for it to follow.
Y3M Ancient Egyptian Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:40pm
Harper has been working extremely hard at home getting lots of amazing facts all about Ancient Egypt and King Tut! Thank you for sharing Harper. 🇪🇬
Y3M Ancient Egyptian Homework, by Mrs Harris
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 9:37pm
Harleigh brought in some interesting artefacts from Egypt. We were all fascinated by the length of the River Nile! Thank you for sharing Harleigh. 🇪🇬
Children’s Mental Health Week, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 1:05pm
🌹💐🌸🌺Know Yourself to Grow Yourself🌷🌻🌼🪷
Year 1 enjoyed learning about how to look after their minds, we discussed what makes us happy, what makes us sad and how we can use breathing to help calm ourselves down!
We loved painting our own flowers to remind us how we can grow!
🌹💐🌸🌺Know Yourself to Grow Yourself🌷🌻🌼🪷
Sports Stars of the Week!, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:09pm
A few weeks worth of Sports Stars...sorry!!
Well done this week to...
Lucca (Y1) for receiving Player of the Match in his football match AND Star of the Match!
Kian (Y1) for receiving a certificate for being his session's most improved player at football!
Theo (Y1) for receiving a trophy for scoring LOTS of goals!
Isamay (Y6) for winning her Muay Thai Competition in Durham!
Joining Together for Assembly, by Mrs Harris
Date: 3rd Feb 2025 @ 10:51am
There is no better way to start a new week than joining together for a gospel assembly. Thank you to Year 4 for helping to lead this week's assembly. 
Hi-Impact Robot and Coding Workshop, by Mrs Schultz
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 4:54pm
Year 1 had a robot and coding workshop this week. They used iPads to control a small robot encased in a ball, called Sphero. They could create block codes to program a bear to move around a map and played a coding game called Codeapillar. They spent some time creating a code using different coloured mats, then sat a car on top to see what happened. They had to find out which colour programmed what direction. They quickly realised that green meant 'go' and 'red' was to stop the car. The other colours turned the car left or right. They had so much fun and couldn't wait to have a go of every activity on offer. Special thanks goes to Hi-Impact who provided all the resources and teaching for this session.
Lunar New Year, by Mrs Schultz
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 4:06pm
This week, Year 1 have celebrated the Lunar New Year. We watched a video that explained how and why people celebrate the Lunar New Year and what animal represents the 2025 New Year- this year is the year of the snake! The children could then choose from a selection of activities to help us to celebrate. We made and decorated lanterns, practised writing Mandarin characters for the numbers, made snakes and coloured some posters. The children had a great time and asked for us to do the same next week! Since the Lunar New Year is celebrated over 15 days, they may have their wish granted! One child brought in some rice crackers and Chinese sweets for his class to share too!
Year 6 Art, by Mrs Harris
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:33pm
Yeat 6H Art
Year 6 have recently been learning all about the famous artist Frida Kahlo. In preparation for their final piece of art, a self portrait using Frida’s style as inspiration, children have today enjoyed following a tutorial of ‘How to draw a face’. Children have sketched some excellent pieces and are ready to make a start on their final piece.
Pie Day!, by Mrs Harris
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:21pm
Pie day in the Sunshine Room! We loved celebrating pie day by making our own very special cream pie. It had strawberries, sprinkles and marshmallows. We found the squirty cream very funny!
Celebrating in the Sunshine Room, by Mrs Harris
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 8:14pm
The Sunshine Room has been loving celebrating Chinese New Year. We enjoyed fortune cookies, we all have good luck coming to us! We have also been making lanterns with lots of different colours!
Special Lunar New Year Lunch, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:55pm
Happy Lunar New Year! 🏮🎉🧧
Today marks the start of the Year of the Snake, a symbol of wisdom, intuition, and elegance. We're celebrating with a delicious traditional lunch and embracing the joy, traditions, and togetherness that make this festival so special.
We’ve also learned to say, “Gung Hei Fat Choi!” Wishing everyone happiness, prosperity, and a wonderful year ahead! 🐍
#ChineseNewYear #YearOfTheSnake #SpringFestival
#LunarNewYear2025
Celebration of Lunar New Year in Y3M, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:35pm
Year 3 celebrated Lunar New Year by learning all about how Chinese people prepare for the New Year and all of the traditional things they do to celebrate.
Chloe had kindly brought in some fortune cookies for us all to share and with Scarlet, they explained to everyone what they are and what special surprise to find inside of them!
We then decorated and cut out our snakes - a symbol of wisdom, intuition and elegance.
Year of the Snake in F2, by Mrs Harris
Date: 29th Jan 2025 @ 8:19pm
The children within Mrs McLaren's class have had such a fun afternoon learning all about Chinese New Year. We were able to write our ages using Chinese writing, we built dragons and lanterns using Lego. We also enjoyed making Chinese lanterns using our cutting skills. It is the year of the snake 🐍 and so we all worked to make snake puppets. We had a great afternoon ☺️ 👏👏
Year 3 Jubilee 2025, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:06pm
Friday 24th January was Jubilee 2025 Launch Day! Year 3 took part in a class Jubilee assembly to introduce the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’. We reflected on what we can do this year to be pilgrims of hope for our local and global family.
Year 3 Maths, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 10:01pm
Year 3 have been working hard to divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number by using base 10 to show flexible partitioning. ✖️➗
Year 3 Egyptian Bazaar, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:56pm
Year 3 have been working towards writing a settling description of an Egyptian Bazaar, based on our focus text 'Flat Stanley'. To help us use our senses to describe, we turned our classroom into a Bazaar! This morning, the children became 'Stanley' and explored the bazaar, thinking about what they could see, hear, smell, feel and taste. We then focused on exciting vocabulary to describe. Well done year 3!
Mr. Potato Head Challenge - Week 1, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:45pm
Congratulations to the following classes who earned pieces for their Mr Potato Head!!!!!
Y2FW with 97.6% 🥔🦵👂
Y3M with 97.1% 🥔👃🫲
Y2T with 96.4% 🥔👀🦵
Y6W with 96% 🥔👃👀
Be an Attendance Hero!, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:44pm
✨️ATTENDANCE MATTERS-EVERY STUDENT, EVERY DAY! 🌟
🏆 Be an attendance hero today!
💛 Here
💛 Every day
💛 Ready
💛 On time
#LoveWhereYouLearn #AttendanceMatters #olseps
Year 3M Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 9:40pm
Year 3 VM had a truly grotesque experience last week learning all about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process!
They looked at the 8 steps of the process in preparation for the afterlife. Take a look if you dare!!
Taste Testing with the School Council, by Mrs Harris
Date: 20th Jan 2025 @ 10:43pm
Our School Council had a busy and very important afternoon today........taste testing for a new provider of school meat products 😋
School Council was invited to try fresh sausages, freshly made beefburger 🍔, homemade chicken nuggets, freshly made sausage burger, mince and gravy, and chicken breast 👏👏👏👏
Mrs Davies, Mrs Mulvey, Miss Burns, and Mrs McKenzie? We think the children loved ❤❤❤ the new meat dishes!!!!!
After lots of #masterchef worthy discussions, we had thumbs up all around 👍👍👍
#seriousfaces #funnyfaces #bigdecisions
"Lovely sausages- 100%!"
"The burger tasted like a really real burger!!"
"The chicken was tasty!"
Year 2 Setting Exploration, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:17pm
We had a great day exploring the different settings in our new story 'The Marvellous Moon Map'!
Science Club, by Mrs Harris
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:00pm
Science Club with Mrs McGunigall 🔬🧪🔭
Science club had fun experimenting with plastics. Did you know that plastics are made of many molecules stuck together in a long chain? We discovered that when you pierce a bag with pencils, it breaks the chain, but the molecules of the chain are sticky so they make a seal around the pencil and won’t let the water out! Guess what happened when we removed the pencils! 💦💦💦
Y3K Ancient Egyptians, by Mrs Harris
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 8:43pm
Year 3K loved learning all about the Ancient Egyptians' beliefs in the afterlife and how they worshipped many Gods and Goddesses. They thought about what items ancient Egyptians would take with them to the afterlife and what they would take with them if they were to make the journey to The Field of Reeds! They then played Top Trumps to try and defeat their opponents with their Gods or Goddesses and the many powers they held.
