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Welcome Back

It has been wonderful to feel a sense of normality returning to school this term - playing ...

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Around the World in Eighty Days

It's been a very busy week in Eagles class! We had our first Assembly in 18 months - Year 6 were ...

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The Stone Age

Owls’ Stone Age timeline on the playground and our colourful ‘Things which make us happy.’ ...

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Turrets and Tiaras

How lovely it is to see so many smiling faces, gappy toothed grins, and shiny shoes as we welcome a ...

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New Robins

Our new Robins certainly showed little sign of nerves as they got busy playing in their new ...

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Archimedean Solids

After a very late (and emotional!) Sunday night for many of the Eagles, we started with a video ...

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Bread and Butter Pudding

A final action packed week for Owls. This week we’ve been cooking, Bell boating, creating tree ...

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Seaside Fun Day

And so we really are “nearly there”. What a busy week we have had! First, congratulations to ...

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STEM Workshop

Monday and Tuesday saw hectic mornings of filming down the field and at Forest School. Our new ...

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String Art

Owls are very much looking forward to our sports day on Friday and have enjoyed practising for the ...

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New Teachers!

The weeks are floating past, and we’re nearly there! This week in Kingfishers we have been learning ...

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Skipping

We've learned about Egyptian gods and goddesses this week - the range of animal heads that they had ...

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Code Breakers

Owls class was eerily quiet on Wednesday afternoon as the children become World War 2 code breakers ...

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British Isles

This week we have continued learning vocabulary in French, related to the beach. If anyone ever ...

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Dress-up Day

Whoosh! There go the Super Robins saving the day. On Tuesday we all became superheroes; the ...

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Cricket

We've been looking at persuasive speeches in English this week: those of Martin Luther King Jr and ...

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (estimating the age of trees) was the focus of Owls’ Forest School session this ...

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Superheroes

What would your superpower be? That was the question Robins asked themselves as they tested out ...

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Mummy!

The most anticipated part of our Egypt topic arrived on Monday - mummification! The Lollipop Sticks ...

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Swimming Stars

The fun doesn’t end in Owls - whilst swimming may have come to an end, we had our first session at ...

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'Poe-tree'

Learning the Jewish Creation story was the task for Tuesday, considering the days of the week, and ...

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Hansel and Gretel

Robins followed a trail of shiny, white pebbles which led them to a gingerbread cottage...can you ...

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A Treasure Trove!

It was like Christmas had come early on Tuesday. We had a real treasure trove of things to give ...

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Evacuees

We were all transported back to the 1940s on Wednesday and experienced what it must have been like ...

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Are we nearly there yet?

“Are we nearly there yet” has made us think about what it might mean – “how to not be sick in the ...

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Once upon a time

Once upon a time...there were some very excited Robins who found a fairy-tale castle in their ...

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Marchant's Hill

A long coach trip led us to a new PGL destination in Surrey - Marchant’s Hill. The children were ...

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Poetry

It’s been a week of descriptions and poetry this week in Owls as we finished off our descriptive ...

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Funnybones

And so the end of another term rushes up to meet us, encouraging us to bring to an end our ‘All ...

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Dragons

Having sent out a plea for cardboard boxes we were lucky enough to be given two huge ones for the ...

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PGL

Robins waved off their Big Friends as they left for residential.

Eagles at PGL

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Wellbeing

As Year 6 have Bikeability this week, we have had a standalone topic in English. We've been looking ...

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Operation Room

This week, having previously covered the build up to the Battle of Britain, we learnt about the ...

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Amazing Grace

This week has seen Kingfishers concentrating hard on themselves. We have been thinking about ...

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Fit and Healthy

This week in Robins we read some non-fiction texts about people who help us. Firstly, we found out ...

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Saxophone

Miss Ilott brought in her saxophone to show the children as we have been learning about brass ...

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African Drumming

A well-written villain is key to an exciting adventure story and this week we looked at two of ...

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Fight them on the beaches

As you may know, we have a new reading challenge in Owls with the children totalling up the number ...

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Mezuzah

Another week has trundled past for Kingfishers. We have been busy in Maths, carrying on with ...

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Oliver's Vegetables

It has been a very healthy week in Robins. We read the stories 'Oliver's Vegetables' and Oliver's ...

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Food Tasting

On Thursday afternoon we experienced a taste of Nigeria, the country where Ancient Benin was once ...

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The Blitz

It’s hard to believe that we’ve only been in school four days this week given the number of ...

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Tongues and Tastebuds

Gosh don’t the weeks fly by, when they are only 4 days long!! We have still been very busy! In ...

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The Tiny Seed

Robins have been exploring the life cycle of plants this week and identifying those that grow in ...

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Battle of Britain

There was huge excitement on Tuesday for the start of Owls’ swimming lessons. We were so impressed ...

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PSHE Jigsaw

We've continued learning about Ancient Benin this week - did you know the Great City of Benin had ...

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Senses

It was absolutely delightful for us to be able to see you at Parents Evening. Thank you all very ...

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Tadpoles

Robins have continued learning about life cycles this week. We read the very sad story of ...

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Ancient Civilizations

Welcome back everybody. We've started a topic which is not only new to the children but new to Mr ...

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Fight and Flight

Another term has begun and we’ve had a great first week back getting our teeth into the new topic ...

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Funnybones

So, the Summer Term begins, we have had our photos taken, and have settled back into the routines ...

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Robins are learning about life cycles over the next couple of weeks. This week we read a very ...

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Big and Little Friends

Big Friends and Little Friends enjoying reading together and looking for signs of Spring on an ...

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Welcome Back

It has been wonderful to welcome back all the children to school over the past 4 weeks. We have all ...

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Boudicca

Shot at, nearly crushed in a car macerator, climbing out of 15th floor windows - Alex Rider leads a ...

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Boccia

The tension was palpable in the hall on Thursday afternoon as we embarked on our third School Games ...

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Handa

Another week has whizzed past – where is the time going? The children have all been trying very ...

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Titch

We read the stories ‘Titch’ by Pat Hutchins and ‘Tall’ by Jez Alborough and discovered that the ...

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English Buffet

We've had a mixed buffet of English this week: we made a book from all of our Zephaniah-inspired ...

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The Pea and the Princess

You’ve heard of The Princess and the Pea but what about The Pea and the Princess?! This week in ...

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Handa's Surprise

This week saw Kingfishers continuing to enjoy the story of Handa’s Surprise – and what a surprise ...

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What the Ladybird Heard

This week Robins enjoyed a Julia Donaldson favourite- ‘What the Ladybird Heard’. It has inspired ...

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Potions

Eagles had a whale of a time at Forest School making mixtures as part of their Science curriculum. ...

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Meteorites

It’s been great to have the Owls all back together again this week and although I think we will all ...

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Holy Week

How lovely it has been to welcome the children back to school. They have certainly been pleased to ...

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That's Not a Daffodil

It was wonderful this week to welcome back all the Robins and to see them having fun learning and ...

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World Book Day

We've heard from lots of different authors this week via the World Book Day website: Derek Landy, ...

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Owl's' Art Work

We are going to run out of space on the walls of the classroom with the amount of fantastic art ...

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African Sunsets

And so we come to the end of the final slightly odd week! Huge thanks and congratulations to those ...

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The Gingerbread Man

‘Run, run as fast as you can’ sang the Gingerbread Man as Robins made sure the delicious biscuits ...

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Romulus and Remus

Although we are still considering what makes Britain great our focus has shifted more towards Roman ...

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Pixel Art

Owls have been working incredibly hard to master some difficult grammatical concepts this week with ...

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On Safari

Another term, another journey. This week has seen us jet off to the African plains. Mrs Marlow set ...

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The Dirty Great Dinosaur

Robins have been back to prehistoric times to find out about dinosaurs. We read Martin Waddell’s ...

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Reading Rivers

Free choice for Great Briton of the week was very interesting: Captain Sir Tom Moore has been on a ...

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Getting Creative

It’s been a creative week in Owls and despite how tired I’m sure many of the children are feeling, ...

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Grape Sculptures

Well what a term! What wonderful things have been achieved, despite the constraints of Covid. We ...

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Tell me a dragon

We read a beautiful picture book in Robins this week called ‘Tell Me a Dragon’ by Jackie Morris. ...

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Impressive Authors

There are lots of very impressive authors in Eagles class this week: lots of ambitious vocabulary ...

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Geography Features

Owls have continued to impress with their hardworking attitude this week in another packed week. ...

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Busy Kingfishers

A great week for Kingfishers! Mrs Fisher and I have been so impressed with the illustrations, the ...

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The Giant Jam Sandwich

It’s been a tasty week in Robins as we have been reading ‘The Giant Jam Sandwich’. I have been ...

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Science Experiments

We've started our narrative writing unit based on the John Lewis advert 'Man on the Moon' (and I ...

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Landscape Sculptures

Mrs Fowler and I have been hugely impressed by the excellent persuasive letters and articles Owls ...

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Beegu

Well what can I say? We have been so thrilled to see everyone working so hard, whether at school or ...

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Stanley's Stick

The week began with some very snowy photos shared in the class discussion on Showbie. The children ...

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Aliens

Congratulations to all who have survived this week’s activities – we have been very impressed with ...

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Settlements

A recent daily register task for Owls asked what career everyone would like in the future. Judging ...

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Writing Skills

Eagles have dusted off their writing skills this week with a series of short writing tasks. Matty ...

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The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark

Our story of the week has been ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. Plop wasn’t ...

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The Dot

The Dot gallery in the school hall...helping to keep the link between home and school. Thank you ...

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Reading Challenge

I have been so pleased to see some really high quality pieces of work being submitted on Showbie. ...

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Expert Navigators!

Owls have been training up as expert navigators this week as we honed our map reading skills. This ...

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The Man on the Moon

A huge THANK YOU and WELL DONE to all in Kingfishers this week. We have been so pleased to see how ...

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Robin's Winter Song

Robins’ learning this week has been based on a beautiful book called ‘Robin’s Winter Song’ by ...

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Merry Christmas

From Gretton Primary School

Christmas Around the World by Eagles

Coming Home by Owls

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas is nearly here and at school we have been getting festive. The Christmas tree is up in ...

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Christmasified!

This week has been packed full of exciting activities from: writing our names in light, measuring ...

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Viking Portraits

Another busy week in Owls has seen us learning about the different muscles in our bodies and how ...

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Grumpy Sheep!

Much barely contained excitement this week as Kingfishers donned their costumes in order to bring ...

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Christmas Play

I have had to award a lot of ‘good singing’ Dojo points to Robins this week for their efforts ...

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ebooks

This week in Eagles!

On Wednesday we watched Lewis and Clark Journey to the Wild West. They ...

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Coming Home

Whilst you’re all cosy in your homes this winter spare a thought for migrating Scandinavian robins ...

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Samuel Pepys Diary

Kingfishers finished writing their Samuel Pepys diaries this week - they wrote them over the course ...

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Aliens Love Underpants

There has been a lot of giggling in Robins this week as we enjoyed the books ‘Aliens Love ...

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Frontiers

This week in Eagles we have been looking at reports and have written our own. When we’re all ...

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Netball Games

No Pens (or pencils) Wednesday proved very popular this week with a range of activities which we ...

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Candles

Activities at Forest School have involved tree climbing, nest building, mouse dens and involuntary ...

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Space and Shapes

This week Robins used non-fiction books and the internet to find out more about space. We learnt ...

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Scientific Thinking

Some excellent scientific thinking in Eagles this week as the children designed their own ...

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Vikings

Our topic board is now adorned with hordes of angry Vikings which Owls have been busy creating. We ...

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The Great Fire of London

The weeks seem to fly by, as we immerse ourselves in the 'Great Fire of London'. We have painted a ...

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Whatever Next

Robins imagined they were in their space rockets and with a ‘Whoosh’ were jetting off to the moon ...

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Life in Robins

Here is a presentation showing some of the activities we have done in Reception this year

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Space

We tried some space food this week, as prepared by Joseph and Mrs Marlow. The dehydrated apple ...

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Reflections

It has been a week of reflection for Owls. At Forest school we thought of things we are great full ...

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Harry and the Dinosaurs

Another week has passed and Kingfishers are reaching the end of their Dinosaur topic. We have been ...

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The Enormous Turnip

We pulled and pulled and pulled but we could not pull up The Enormous Turnip! Many of the children ...

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Literature Festival

Since we couldn't go to the Literature Festival this year, the Literature Festival came to us! The ...

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Double Date Day

It was a day late that we noticed but Owls enjoyed trying to work out what was special about the ...

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Harvest

In Kingfishers this week, we have been making daily visits to the Cheltenham Literature Festival, ...

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Leaf Man

A Leaf Man’s got to go where the wind blows…Lois Ehlert’s story about ‘Leaf Man’ inspired lots of ...

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The Runaway Pea

Robins received a new book each from the Book Trust called ‘The Runaway Pea’ by Kjartan Poskitt ...

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Fossils

Continuing our work on Dinosaurs and Fossils – we made our own ammonites, remembering the ‘Dough ...

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Light

Owls’ focus this week has been on our scientific topic, exploring light and darkness. We considered ...

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Designing Websites

Our websites are coming along nicely: we have learned how to change the layout and add hyperlinks. ...

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What school means to me

It has been a while since we have all been together in school and so we began the year with time ...

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Writer's Toolkits

We started our Writer's Toolkits this week with a focus on character names. Bob and Jeff are banned ...

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Heading Home

Owls are fully getting back into the swing of things and have had another busy week! We’ve edited ...

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Maths and more

Once again, Kingfishers have been busy. We have been working hard on our handwriting, Y2s are ...

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First Forest School

Robins had their first visit to Forest School this week and had great fun exploring and treasure ...

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Eagles' Oscars

Mr Major and I have been thoroughly impressed by the quality of homework handed in so far this ...

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Writing in runes

Owls thoroughly enjoyed their first trip up to Forest School this year. We explored our extended ...

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Dinosaurs Roar!

A great start to the week for Kingfishers, beginning our topic ‘Dinosaurs Roar’. In the mornings we ...

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Fun first week

What a fantastic first week for our new Robins. They have had lots of fun exploring all the toys in ...

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House Shields

It was lovely to welcome back Eagles class this week. There were a few nerves and quite a lot of ...

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1862

It’s fantastic to have a full class again and so lovely to see some familiar faces again after a ...

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Being a Kingfisher

How lovely it is to see so many smiling faces, gappy-toothed grins, slightly too long sweatshirts, ...

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Welcome to Robins

Our new Robins visited the classroom this week with their Mums and Dads to meet myself and Mrs ...

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Fractions

We were very proud of Owls’ efforts in their class assembly this week. Given how busy we are with ...

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World Book Day

To celebrate Wold Book Day on 5th March everyone brought in their favourite book to school. We held ...

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Collecting Data

We have been using the Ipads this week to enhance our understanding of charts. It has involved ...

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Robin's Assembly

Robins performed to their families on Thursday for our class assembly. They told the story of Jack ...

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Hot Cross Buns

This week in Kingfishers we have continued exploring the World, we found out some facts about the ...

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Microbes

A hot topic of conversation in Eagles has been COVID-19, so we learned about the difference ...

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The World

The new term has found us exploring the World in our Island/Great Explorations topic. We have a ...

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Pancakes

We celebrated Shrove Tuesday in Robins by making our own pancakes and added some delicious toppings ...

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Legoland Discovery

We had a great day at Legoland Discovery in Birmingham. The children were really thrilled with the ...

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Puppets

In Kingfishers this week we have been continuing to learn about Toys from the Past and comparing ...

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Jam Tarts

Robins enjoyed making play dough jam tarts for the role-play bakery so much that we felt inspired ...

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Police Support Officers

Owls had a visit from two Police Community Support Officers on Wednesday to talk to us all about ...

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The Oscars

Our Oscars have arrived! It was exciting to unwrap the little statuettes that Eagles will earn for ...

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Christmas Dinner

Enjoying our Christmas dinner with all the trimmings!

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Christmas Party

Children who regularly attend Night Owls were invited to a Christmas party to enjoy lots of fun and ...

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Board Games

What a fabulous final week of term for Eagles class! The final Forest School of term saw the ...

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Stonehenge Artwork

Owls rounded off their topic work for the term by learning about how life changed again with the ...

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Stars

What stars we had this week! Well done to all the children, as they performed their parts so ...

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Party Time

What a busy last week in Robins! The children were all super stars in the Christmas play and kept ...

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Instruction Writing

The inexorable march to the end of term continues with lots of varied opportunities for learning in ...

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Computing

‘We’re Walking in the Air’ has been ringing around Owls’ classroom this week as we began planning ...

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3D Shapes

Rehearsals for our Nativity play have taken up a large part of this week, but despite misgivings ...

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Fairytale Dress Up Day

Robins were transported to the Middle East on Tuesday as we visited The Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury ...

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A King is Born

Robins and Kingfishers were very proud to perform their nativity play 'A King is Born'. They worked ...

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Spirit of Christmas

The children were AMAZING! They looked super, smart in their uniforms; so composed and so still ...

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Pizza

A very muddy Forest School saw Eagles enjoying knee slides a little bit too much! They also made ...

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Gretton Tower

Another extremely busy week in Kingfishers; sometimes we wonder how we fit it all in! The children ...

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Sleepy Owls

We will have some sleepy Owls on Friday morning after another busy week culminating in last night’s ...

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Ice

The ice that formed in our outdoor area at the start of the week caused great excitement amongst ...

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Boccia

Eagles welcomed back Mr Major this week - he was right back in the fray with a morning of cover ...

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Getting Creative

Owls’ afternoons have been full of creativity this week in undertaking our Art and DT week. We ...

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Shapes

The weeks are passing by so quickly, it's amazing how much we fit in! This week we have been ...

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Big Maths

Robins have been making fantastic progress with their phonics and it has been great to see so many ...

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Cooking Club

Mrs Netting’s daughter is leading cooking activities on Mondays during Night Owls as part of her ...

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Planting Trees

Another successful Forest School saw Eagles planting trees around the Forest School site. We ...

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Stonehenge

Owls ducked, dived and most importantly dodged on Thursday in our first School Value’s Games of the ...

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Diwali

This week has flown by, and it hardly seems a moment since last week's contribution! We have ...

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Class Assembly

Despite technical issues with the projector in the hall and a change of location to the classroom, ...

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Prickly Visitor

A young hedgehog was hiding amongst the leaves on the MUGA last week. Mrs Ballinger kindly took it ...

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The Gingerbread Man

Mrs Netting donned her storyteller’s hat and cloak on Monday for story time and with a loud ‘Hocus ...

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Remembrance

Continuing our How and Why do we Celebrate topic, we then learnt about Remembrance Day. Not only ...

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No Pens Wednesday

We were very proud of Owls’ efforts in their class assembly this week despite some mishaps with the ...

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Blood Smoothies!

It's been a very hands-on week in Eagles class. We made 'blood' smoothies on Monday: raspberries ...

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Remembrance Day

On Monday we commemorated Remembrance Day with a two minute silence on the playground. The children ...

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No Pens Wednesday 1.

We really enjoyed No Pens Wednesday in Kingfishers - here are some pictures of Goldilocks at the ...

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Friendship Thursday

In 2007 a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dicitonary was published which omitted about forty ...

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Tournament Tuesday

What a fantastic day we had; the weather blossomed, and the children all looked fantastic in their ...

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The Crystal Palace

Have you ever wondered about the unusual origins of some football team names? This week Eagles ...

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Fire building

Owls had their final Forest School session on Tuesday where we collected dry sticks of different ...

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Funnybones

Robins read ‘Funnybones’ this week and made skeleton pictures with straws. We learnt about speech ...

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Class Assembly

Kingfishers delivered a fantastic class assembly inpsired by the poetry of Joshua Seigal who they ...

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Police Visit

Never a dull moment in Eagles: on Monday Mr Parker (Jacob’s dad) cane in to talk to the children ...

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Persuasive Writing

For many of the children in Owls a career in sales and marketing could be on the cards as they work ...

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Gretton Tower

Following hard on the heels of last week's Harvest Assembly, this week saw Kingfishers presentation ...

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The Cave

Following the book fair and trip to the Literature Festival, an exciting package arrived for the ...

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Harvest Service

All the classes participated in our Harvest Service at Gretton Church led by Steve Carter with a ...

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Literature Festival

The whole school visited the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Monday. It was a fantastic ...

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Class assembly

For the second year running, the Cheltenham Literature Festival was a fabulous experience for ...

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Being an illustrator

It’s been a busy week for Owls with the Literature Festival, harvest festival and forest school in ...

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Llamas and lemurs

We had a super time at the Literature Festival, thoroughly enjoying an outdoor experience of the ...

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Robin's First Trip

Robins enjoyed their first school trip to the Literature Festival on Monday. They were very excited ...

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Big House Read

Many thanks to everyone who bought a book from the recent book fair. We sold £685 worth of books, ...

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Black Country Living Museum

Another very busy week for Eagles class! The children wrote some thrilling Gothic tales in Write ...

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Round Houses Part 2!

Our round houses are progressing well despite the damp weather we endured for a second week at ...

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Kingfishers' Quiet Week!

It has been a much quieter few days in Kingfishers this week. We have been focusing on improving ...

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Robins' First Full Week

Robins have successfully completed their first full week of school. It has been a busy one but they ...

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Open Days

Parents and pre-school children are warmly invited to visit the school on our Open Days on 4th ...

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Book Fair

Don't forget to come and visit the book fair on Monday and Tuesday after school this week. The ...

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Musical Assembly

Music teachers Pete, Alex, Dan and Emma demonstrated their instruments to the children to inspire ...

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Senses and Sculptures

Braving the weather, Rapunzel set out into the garden, having been released from the tower by the ...

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Strictly Robins

Inspired by Toby singing ‘ I like to move it’ we put on some Disney songs which got everyone up and ...

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Relative Clauses

Mrs Holt, who has been teaching for more years than she cares to remember, has been working on ...

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Round Houses

Owls braved the wet conditions and were transported back to the Stone Age this week in our Forest ...

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Warwick Castle

Following on from 'Rapunzel's' visit to the classroom last week, we went to find some more ...

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Eagles on Residential

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Walk to Belas Knap

Owls donned their hiking boots on Tuesday and headed out for an adventure on Tuesday as we made our ...

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First Trip to Forest School

Robins stayed for lunch this week and many of them earned lunchtime awards for trying new foods and ...

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Working independently

We have continued our study of The Raven by thinking about the author's use of language. We found ...

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Roman Numerals

Owls have had another great week. This week has been our computing week and our focus has been ...

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Sculptures

This week Kingfishers have been looking at the work of the sculptor Anthony Gormley. The children ...

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Dough Disco

This week Robins have been finding out more about each other. They have shared family photos, ...

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The Stone-Iron Age

Both Mrs Fowler and I have been really impressed with how the children have all settled in this ...

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Towers, Turrets and Tiaras

A fantastic start to our new year and term in Kingfishers. It has been super to see so many ...

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New Robins

A very big welcome to our new Robins. They have thrown themselves into life in Robins with ...

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Welcome back!

Eagles have already had a packed week: baseline testing, PE challenges, starting our Gothic ...

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Seaside Fun Day

After our Seaside Assembly, at which the chldren performed their ryhmes,riddles and song, we had ...

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Multiskills

Although we had to tell the coach driver the way to Cheltenham, it didn;t marr the time we had at ...

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Sealife Centre

After visiting Legoland, we walked across the bridge to the Sealife Centre. It was dark and fishy ...

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Legoland Discovery

We went to Legoland Discovery Centre in Birmingham. We had a fabulous time. The children really ...

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our govs new

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Minibeast Madness

Robins have been intrepid explorers this term hunting for bugs at Forest School as part of our ...

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Zoolab visit.

On Monday, Dan from Zoolab visited bringing a variety of creatures for us to see, touch and learn ...

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RE - Thinking about Judaism

In RE we have been learning about Judaism. We went outside to sort through activities that Jewish ...

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Making things move...

In DT this term we have been learning how to make moving pictures. The first week we used a ...

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Fraction Tarsias

Owls used their teamwork and newly developed fraction skills to help solve a range of challenging ...

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An Easter Treasure Hunt at Adventure Club

Adventure Club finished on a high this week with a special extended session. The children had to ...

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Spring's Friendship Friday

Friendship Friday this term had an International theme.

The children explored school dinners, the ...

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Space Dome

As part of our Space Topic, we visited the Explorer Dome at the Village Hall. It was truly ...

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Making 3D Sculptures

Our work for the half term was to look at 3D sculptures, made by contemporary artists, using ...

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Bridges

In our Science work we were investigating how some materials can be made stronger, just by folding. ...

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Exploring Shape

This half term Owls have been honing their geometry skills across different areas of the ...

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Adventure Club

Adventure Club has proved immensely popular this term, mostly with Owls Class. We have been busy ...

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Governor visit

We welcomed Mrs Anne Hanson to assembly on Tuesday morning. Anne is our Chair of Governors and was ...

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Robins round-up

Here is a taste of the things Robins have been up to this term. As part of our 'Off We Go!' topic ...

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Snowy Day

Gretton School looking picturesque in the snow.

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STEM Workshop

This exciting workshop ran for a complete day and involved the children working in teams of three ...

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