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• Friday 20 September 2024 Circuits and circuses!
• Thursday 19 September 2024 Busy Fingers Reception children have been enjoying lots of activities which will make our fingers nice and strong and ready for writing! We have been popping bubble wrap, writing in shaving foam, feeding 'tennis ball monsters' with pom-poms and sorting gems with tweezers. We have been so good at all these activities that we have even started learning how to hold our pencils correctly by 'nipping, flipping and gripping'! What a wonderful week.
• Friday 13 September 2024 Reading Buddies Year 6 and Reception buddies have enjoyed their Friday afternoon reading some picture books.
• Friday 13 September 2024 What a super start for Reception! Reception have made a brilliant start to the school term! Children have been busy exploring the classroom and our outside area. They have particularly enjoyed creating ramps and tracks for cars, building with the unifix cubes and getting messy with the paint and water.
• Friday 13 September 2024 First Week Back! It’s been our first full week back with lots of learning and it’s wonderful to see the children so engaged and enthusiastic. This week they have explored chronology in history, posed questions about electricity in science and written poetry in literacy. A great week had by all! Well done!
• Friday 6 September 2024 The Colour Monster! We have nearly made in through the first few days of Year 1. The children have been settling in well to their new class and learning the new routines.
• Wednesday 4 September 2024 Welcome in Year 6 Welcome to all Year 6 children! It has been a great start to all - everyone has been so engaged and enthusiastic. There is plenty of new learning to be embraced and new roles and responsibilities to be fulfilled.
• Friday 12 July 2024 The Show Must Go On and Bastille Day! In celebration of Bastille Day today, Year 4 learnt the lyrics for a march to the French National Anthem - hopefully they can tell you a word or two they learnt! Also, huge congratulations to the children on their show this week - they were fabulous and did us proud!
• Friday 12 July 2024 A Trip to the Farm On Wednesday, Reception class took a trip on a coach to Standalone Farm. We all enjoyed seeing the animals and watching the miniature railway. We especially loved seeing the tiny baby piglets who were only three days old! A real highlight for most children was riding on the coach and eating their yummy packed lunches in the barn! Thank you so much to all the parents who came along and looked after us on the day.
• Friday 21 June 2024 Golf in the sunshine Congratulations and well done to members of Year 4 who attended the Golf Tournament in Letchworth! It was a fantastic afternoon in the sun :)
• Friday 21 June 2024 Brain Breaks Although learning is fun, we all need a good Brain Break from time to time. One example of such break in Year 3 is a dance. This active time allows the children to rest their brain and do something else for a few minutes. Brain breaks can help children to regain focus and energy, making it easier for them to concentrate on their work.
• Tuesday 18 June 2024 What is geography? Over the past few days, year 5 have been thinking about the important role of geographers in our world.
• Friday 14 June 2024 STEM week As part of the STEM week, Year 3 children designed a pollinator garden and then planted a variety of bee friendly plants to attract insects. This hands-on activity will help children with their learning about plants in Science this term too.
• Friday 14 June 2024 What's blooming? As part of our Stem Week, year 1 went on a nature walk around the school looking for plants and flowers. We used our scientific enquiry skills to identify any of the flowers we didn't know the names of. We all realised how lucky we were to have a school with so many different beautiful flowers.
• Friday 14 June 2024 Bee hotels STEM week kicked off with a talk about how satellites help us understand our planet, from climate monitoring to food security. Later in the week, we made bee hotels from recyclable materials! In literacy, we are studying Firebird by Saviour Pirotta and in maths, we have started learning about shape.
• Thursday 13 June 2024 Look What We Grew! As part of our Reception Enrichment, we have chitted, planted grown and harvested potatoes. We had great fun digging them up- it was like discovering buried treasure! We also planted and grew some sweet peas. They are beautiful and smell lovely.
• Tuesday 11 June 2024 The oneness of God Today, year 5 made a visit to Hitchin Mosque. We had a wonderful time learning about the Muslim way of life.
• Tuesday 11 June 2024 Action Against Poverty This Christian Aid week, we thought about what poverty means and how it effects the our world.
• Friday 7 June 2024 One Point Perspective At the end of a packed week (which included re-writing a traditional tale as a detective story and calculating costs per portion of pizza) Year 6 ended with developing the art skill of drawing with a one point perspective.
• Thursday 6 June 2024 Maths Challenge
• Friday 24 May 2024 Muscles, Bones, Tendons ... Thank you to our visitors, Mr and Mrs Lomax who enriched Year 3 learning about Muscles and Bones. Their expertise allowed the children to gain further understanding in how our bodies work. There was also a fun activity to identify broken bones and guess in which part of the body the injury happened. Needless to say, the children enjoyed the morning very much!
• Friday 24 May 2024 What do Christians believe God is like? This term the children have been exploring and trying to find the answer to a Big Question in RE 'What do Christians believe God is like?'. The children have enjoyed listening to stories from the bible, such as The Lost Son and discussing what this can teach us about God. Together the children came up with different words and phrases to describe God and we turn them into a prayer.
• Friday 24 May 2024 Natural History Museum Year 6 represented the school magnificently at the Natural History Museum in Tring. Their discussions in the adaption workshop were highly praised by the staff at the museum. After lunch, the children enjoyed exploring the exhibits.
• Friday 24 May 2024 Trip to Shepreth What a busy week we have had in Nursery! Both classes went to Shepreth Wildlife Park, and we loved seeing lots of different animals (although the bats were very scary!) We went by train, and we are very lucky that the train staff and parent helpers were so helpful; a big thank you to everyone involved in this trip. We also noticed that our caterpillars have turned into butterflies, so we said goodbye to them and set them free outside. Wishing everyone a lovely half term break, and we look forward to our final term together!
• Monday 20 May 2024 Paralympic sports Year 3 children had a fantastic opportunity to participate in the Paralympic games. The three disciplines the children had a go at were: wheelchair basketball, boccia and curling.
• Friday 17 May 2024 Fun with fractions Fractions can be a tricky concept to grasp so by cutting up jam sandwiches the children were able to explore and practice different ways to find a quarter of a shape. Hopefully the children can remember the importance of find a quarter and not just how yummy the jam sandwiches were!
• Friday 17 May 2024 Hudnall Park With memories still fresh in our mind, we look forward to sharing these with you in our assembly next week! In other areas, we are planning a story based on Mouse, Bird, Snake Wolf and in maths, we are learning about time. In science, we are learning about vertebrates/invertebrates.
• Friday 17 May 2024 Friday, Glorious Friday Year 6 did themselves proud during the SATs. Their effort was fantastic and they should be extremely proud of themselves.
• Friday 17 May 2024 From Past to Present This week we were lucky enough to have a visit from a pilot who happens to be one of our very own parents. It was great to welcome Mr Lonnon to come in a talk to the children about his experience as as a modern day pilot. We have been looking at the history of planes and how they have changed over time. The children flooded Mr Lonnon with questions and have been speaking about the presentation he gave all week!
• Friday 17 May 2024 Rockets to the Moon Look at our fabulous rockets! We learnt how to make a cylinder with card and attach it to a cone or tube to create a rocket shape. We used materials from the atelier to give them windows, flames and decoration. They are now proudly displayed in our classroom.
• Tuesday 14 May 2024 Outdoor Angles Today in maths, we reinforced our understanding of angles as amounts of turn by looking for different angle types in our playground.
• Tuesday 14 May 2024 Making Hitchin More Like Heaven
• Friday 10 May 2024 Field study in Hitchin To continue our learning around human and physical geography, we visited Hitchin town center to identify as many different human and physical geographic features.
• Friday 10 May 2024 Almost There Year 6 put in a last, impressive effort this week. They have worked really hard in English and Maths and should be proud of the effort they have put in so far.
• Saturday 4 May 2024 Spotting Scientific Patterns This week, we began learning about how humans change through out their lives.
• Friday 3 May 2024 Aaaaaaah it's a spider!!! This week year 1 have been putting their 3D paper skills to the test. The children worked collaboratively to roll and shape newspaper to create a giant 3D spider.
• Friday 3 May 2024 Grow, grow, grow! Over the last two weeks the children in year 2 have been looking at germination and the process that seeds go through when the begin to grow. The children have planted their seeds and are now monitoring them under various conditions to track their growth.
• Friday 3 May 2024 Do our bones affect what we can do? This week in Science, we have been investigating whether people with longer legs jump further and people with longer arms throw further.
• Saturday 27 April 2024 Top Trump Data To begin our computing topic on databases, we played a game or two of Top Trumps. This helped us to understand what is meant by a complete database, a record and a field.
• Friday 26 April 2024 Hard, grey eyes like polished stones In between attempting past English SATs papers, the class began reading 'The Princess' Blanket'. We reached the point a stranger, dressed in black arrived at the palace.
• Friday 26 April 2024 Is the moon made of cheese? When looking at the moon, we noticed that it is covered in darker patches. We learnt these are actually craters (and not holes in cheese!)We wondered how these were formed so we carried out a vey messy, but fun, investigation using cornflour and baby oil to see how rocks and comets have formed craters on the moon's surface.
• Thursday 25 April 2024 Minibeasts Our topic for this half term is... minibeasts! Our class caterpillars have arrived, and we are very excited to watch them grow over the next few weeks. We have been reading books like 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and 'Mad about Minibeasts' to learn about the different minibeasts and how they move. Yesterday, we took lots of magnifying glasses outside and went on a minibeast hunt in the garden. We have also talked about our favourite minibeasts.
• Thursday 25 April 2024 Planting seeds In this week’s Science lesson, we planted some sweet pea seeds. We have been taking care of them by watering them daily, we can’t wait to see our beautiful flowers grow soon! Hopefully we will continue to learn about how best to take care of plants and have the opportunity to plant our sweet peas in our outdoor area when they are ready.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Celtic Harmony Visit This week, Year 3 children have travelled back in time to the prehistoric Britain for the whole day! We spent the whole day with a man from the Iron Age who knew nothing about Minecraft or lightbulbs!
• Friday 19 April 2024 The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch In English, we began looking at the story of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We were given some clues to help us make predictions about the story. We then used these clues to support us in retelling the story. We look forward to continuing to improve and develop our writing through the story of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Pizza and Paintings The first week of term was predictably busy.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Summer 1
• Thursday 18 April 2024 Fairytales and Fables Workshop Reception had a magical time with Fizzy the Fairy today who visited us all the way from 'Perform Drama School'. We all enjoyed joining in with her dancing, acting and games during our 30 minute workshop. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip into the Fairy tale Forest where we met Rapunzel, Cinderella and even Rumpelstiltskin!
• Tuesday 16 April 2024 You Rang My Lord! Today, Year 5 had a wonderful time developing their history skills and learning what life was like for the servants at Audley End. After taking a tour of the house itself and inferring about the kinds of values the family who lived there might have held, they entered into the life of a servant.
• Tuesday 16 April 2024 The Stations of the Cross Despite the difficult whether, Year 5 presented a very professional and engaging performance of the stations of the cross for the rest of the school. It really brought the Easter story to life and gave the other children the opportunity to think about the true meaning of the most important event in the Christian calendar. Their hard work and dedication shone through and the children should be very proud of their efforts.
• Thursday 28 March 2024 One Day on our Blue planet! Over the course of the last couple of weeks the children have been looking at the text, 'One Day on our Blue Planet'. All of their learning has culminated in them creating their own books written in the style of this text. We hope you enjoyed sharing these with the children when they had their books out to share.
• Thursday 28 March 2024 Happy Easter During Holy week, the children have been learning about why Easter is so important to Christians and meaning of different symbols. Christians see eggs as a symbol of resurrection and new life. In RE, the children had the opportunity to design and decorate their own eggs representing what Easter means to them.
• Thursday 28 March 2024 Happy Easter The term ended in the typically busy manner with the Easter Service, Easter Egg Hunts and the Stations of the Cross among the big events.
• Thursday 28 March 2024 Happy Easter In the countdown to Easter, Year 3 and Year 4 children delivered a very meaningful Easter service at the church retelling the story of Easter.
• Thursday 28 March 2024 Exploring different biomes This week, Year 3 Geographers were looking at different climates, from tundra to very hot and dry climates. The children tried then identify which plants and animals live in specific climate and why.
• Monday 25 March 2024 Seasonal Feasting During our design and technology lessons, we have be been learning about the value of eating food that is in season.
• Friday 22 March 2024 Thank you for the music
• Friday 22 March 2024 Easter Artwork To create our Easter cards, we used pipettes and paints to create a colour wash with yellow and red. We loved watching the colours mix to create different shades of orange. It was very exciting to peel the masking tape cross off our artwork to reveal a cross shape. We are looking forward to bringing these home next week to share with our families.
• Saturday 16 March 2024 Week 3
• Friday 15 March 2024 Science Week As part of the Science Week, the children had a chance to investigate the questions 'Can a substance act as a liquid and a solid at the same time?'
• Friday 15 March 2024 Discrimination
• Tuesday 12 March 2024 World Book Day 2024 Year 1 had a wonderful day on Thursday, celebrating World Book Day. All the children came dressed up as one of their favourite non-fiction characters. During our English session the children has the change to share with their friends and write about their own special characters. Throughout the day the children enjoyed many World Book Day activities including listening to an adult reading them a story in Secret Reader and sharing their own booked with this Year 5 buddies during Buddy Reading. To end the celebration of reading, the children all got to see the whole school dressed up for World Book Day in a special World Book Day assembly. It was joyous day, where you could see every child sharing their passion for reading with others.
• Tuesday 12 March 2024 The Easter Story Today we were lucky enough to experience the Easter Journey at St. Paul's Church in Letchworth.
• Monday 11 March 2024 World Book Day 2024 Last week we celebrated World Book Day. The children looked absolutely brilliant and were able to talk about the texts that they were representing.
• Monday 11 March 2024 World Book Day The children were incredibly busy last week. They worked hard to create prepare for the Mothering Sunday service and make their cards. The service went well with the children speaking clearly and giving heartfelt messages.
• Monday 11 March 2024 World Book Day Fun
• Friday 8 March 2024 WORLD BOOK DAY What a day it was! A plethora of various book characters appeared in Year 3 classroom on Thursday morning. Rather than the usual set of children, we welcomed Isadora Moon, Alice in Wonderland and even Sherlock Holmes himself! Once all the characters introduced themselves, they had a chance to plan a story with a twist. A story in which two different characters would meet. The characters had a fun time planning their stories, after which they wrote and illustrated their own books. Then they had a chance to share the stories with other book characters.
• Friday 8 March 2024 World Book Day Nursery have been talking about their favourite books this week in preparation for World Book Day. We saw some fabulous costumes on Thursday and went down to the school library to read the books that some children brought in.
• Friday 8 March 2024 Mothering Sunday We have been very busy creating fantastic portraits of our mothers. We very confidently stood up to show them to the school community in today's church service and talked about why we loved our mummies.
• Friday 1 March 2024 Spring has sprung! This week we began looking at the spring season and made our own blossom pictures. We looked outside to see if we could find signs of spring, and we noticed that new flowers were growing and there were minibeasts everywhere!
• Friday 1 March 2024 Dinosaur hunt To launch our new topic we embarked on an artefacts hunt around the school grounds. The children became detectives searching for the clues and working out what linked all the artefacts together. The children guessed the clues were all linked to dinosaurs. We were able to confirm our suspicions by opening the eggs revealing miniature dinosaurs nestled inside! This discovery was a great way to launch our dinosaurs topic, which closely links to our English writing based on the book 'The Odd Egg'.
• Friday 1 March 2024 Kicking off with K'nex The week began with the children taking part in a K'nex STEM challenge. STEM was prominent throughout the week with the children beginning the unit involving the heart in Science. Children also listened to a live online talk about Trees and the diseases that could affect them. The children asked some really good questions in the question and answer part. They ended the week designing and using microbit to make products to help encourage people to exercise.
• Friday 1 March 2024 Author's visit Wow! We were super excited to be visited by the local author and book illustrator, Chloe Savage. Chloe spoke to us about her latest book 'The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish'. She was more than happy to answer our questions about what inspires her to write, what her favourite book is and how she got into drawing.
• Friday 1 March 2024 Crafting Rainforests This term's Geography topic is Rainforests and Deserts which links to our story 'Jemmy Button'. Inspired by the sounds and images, the children created their own rainforest collages. This empowered us to write descriptive setting descriptions in which we tried to create the effect on the reader.
• Friday 1 March 2024 Spring 2 It has been a great first week back after half-term, with lots of new topics that the children have started learning about! In geography, we have been exploring countries across the equator and looking at hemispheres; in art, we have created tertiary colours and the children are loving their new book in literacy which has led us to creating a small leaflet this week on mosques! A fabulous start for Year 4!

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