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What a wonderful end to our half-term, with some fantastic work at home and in the classroom.

We have been looking at the Christian celebration of Easter.

On Monday, we discussed the importance of Easter and the reason why Christians celebrate this religious event.  The children worked in…

What a fabulous end to a fabulous week.  We have had so much fun learning all about Chinese New Year.  We have worked so hard to produce some truly spectacular pieces of work, both at school and at home.

The children working from home have worked amazingly well and I am so proud of every single…

Well done to everyone for working so hard during our Culture Week where we learnt all about the Christian festival of Easter.

Year 2 received a very important letter from Donald Streets, the Street Detectives Mayor.  He asked us to design some new buildings to make our local area a little more exciting; a safe place for families to enjoy.

We all worked incredibly hard in school, and at home, to create shops, hotels,…

As part of our activities this week we have been busy creating Cherry Blossom Trees.  At school we used twigs to make our tree shapes and then added scrunched up tissue paper for the blossom.  There were lots of different creations made at home using pipe cleaners, toilet roll tubes, drawings and…

The cross reminds Christians that God loved them so much that he sent them his only son.

Work completed and sent in by:

Edie Forster

Alyssa Johnston

Rebecca Gawthorpe

Felix Lambert

Emily Townsley

Mia Bennison

Sheleena Claridge

Ross Grimbley

Matthew Johnston

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Stained Glass Biscuits

We have made stained glass cookies. We had to follow a recipe with the ingredients we had been given.

Ingredients

250g plain flour

1 tsp ground ginger

100g (3 1/2oz) icing sugar, plus extra for dusting

150g cold butter, diced

1 orange, finely…

As part of our whole school Cultures Week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year.  Today we have been trying some new flavours. 

We really liked the Chinese noodles and the Spring Rolls.  We were very brave and tried different sauces.  We tried Sweet & Sour, Black Bean and Soy Sauce.  The…

The children had lots of fun both at school and at home again today building their very own Great Wall of China.

They used lots of duplo and lego to build walls indoors.

The children at school also had a go at making the Great Wall using snow.  They used different sized containers to make…

We have been busy again at home and school.

We started today's activities off by learning how to say Hello in Chinese.

We were very good at saying Ni Hao for our register this morning,

We have also been exploring Chinese Numbers and having a go at writing our own Chinese number lines.  We…

What a fabulous start to our week of celebrating cultures.

In Reception we are exploring Chinese New Year and we started our activities off by watching a video all about how this very special occasion is celebrated.  We saw ribbon dancing, dragon dancing, lots of beautiful decorations…