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This morning in maths Year 1 have been writing some addition and subtraction sentences to make a fact family. 

This week we said goodbye to our wonderful Reverend Anne as she heads off to pastures new for her retirement. We have also had a great time beginning our fairgrounds topic in DT and started our basketball in PE. We read the book Salt in his shoes about Michael Jordan and how with perseverance and…

 Year 2 have written some fantastic Pumpkin Soup stories this week! Well done!

Today in maths Year 1 have been looking at fact families. Today we focused on addition facts to secure our understanding. We used pictorial representations of the part whole model to help us write number sentences. 

Today in art  Class 2 have made their own print motifs and used them to create repeating patterns. 

Goodbye to the most wonderful Vicar we have ever had….

An embedded and mutually supportive relationship between the parish Church and school extends and deepens the school’s Christian vision. Members of the local community express how the school and church elevate levels of fulfilment and joy…

We are all excited about our new science topic - States of Matter.

We had fun today pretending to be the particles in a solid, a liquid and then a gas before sorting some common objects into their respective states. 
 

This week, we have been learning all about  Diwali, the Festival of Lights. We have made diya lamps with clay, created Rangoli patterns, written Diwali cards and made some traditional sweets called coconut barfi. We hope you enjoy looking through our pictures!

As we get ready to start the Winter term at St Mary's I wanted to look back at how amazing the children have been with their enthusiasm for our outdoor learning during the Autumn months despite the colder weather.

We have enjoyed creating some natural bunting through the Japanese art of Hapa…

Today in art we used our rubbings from yesterday to create our own pictures. 

This week we have had lots of messy pumpkin fun. We have scooped out the seeds andused hammers to hammer sticks into the pumpkins. We are hoping to grow our own pumpkins using the seeds we have scooped out of these. We also enjoyed decorating spooky biscuits and painting pumpkins. 
 

Today in maths Year 1 used hoops and balls to find the missing part. They then wrote number sentences to match their part whole models.