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Cake Sale - Fri 8th April (Morning Only)
We are holding a small cake sale to raise money for outdoor equipment and toys for our playground and outdoor learning areas. We would be very thankful for any donation of cakes for the children to sell. We will be selling the cakes to the children at a cost of 25p - 50p each throughout the morning.

Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2
The Easter Bonnet Parade for Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 takes place (weather permitting) on Thursday 7th April at 2.30pm. We are inviting you to make a bonnet with your child and bring it in on the day. Any child from the Morning Nursery class who wishes to participate needs to come back to Nursery at 2.15pm. Parents are invited to watch the parade which starts at 2.30pm in the
Foundation Phase playground. Please enter via the playground gate.

Covid Latest Guidance
As you will have all seen the latest guidance information on COVID which we sent out this week, I would like to make our schools position clear. We are continuing to remain cautious in our school practice and slowly integrating pupils across year groups again. We still have a number of cases across the school and remain mindful that covid is spread very easily.
Can we ask that with the changes in testing and isolation guidance you still remain observant regarding symptoms within your family and if you suspect your child has covid or your child has tested positive that you inform the school as soon as you are able. We have a number of medically vulnerable children in the school and we need to be able to warn and inform their parents of any potential cases, in order to keep them safe. We very much appreciate your support in this matter.

Nursery

This term Nursery have been learning about numbers, colours and shapes using the Number Puppy stories. We are also learning our letters and sounds using the Read, Write, Inc approach. 

Don’t forget on Tuesday 5th April our older Nursery children in the Morning and Afternoon class are to attend the Morning class from 9am-12 noon so to take part in a carousel of New Curriculum activities based on the 4 Purposes with teachers from Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.
NB This does not apply to the younger children who started Nursery after Christmas in the afternoon class. Their class is as normal on this day 12.30-3pm.

Reception

Reception have had the best week ever... exploring, investigating and having fun with our new topic... awe and wonder we have already explored and learned lots of new things and there’s plenty more to come!

Year 1

This week Year 1 have been continuing their hard work with our power of plants topic. We have observed how roots suck up water and take it to other parts of the plant in an experiment. We have also gone on a hunt looking for wild and garden plants around the school. We are getting really good at identifying different types and parts of plants. We have been exploring all things plant related in our enhanced area too, working on sticking parts of the plant together and making our own play dough plants.
It has been so lovely to see so many faces back in school! We are so happy to have you back. Just a reminder our parental consultations are Thursday 7th April, if you could get your slips with your availability sent back in by Friday I can allocate times and give out appointments ASAP. Sorry for any delay but with so many children off it has been hard to get the slips out.

Year 2

Last Thursday we visited Alysha and Tom at Batsley Farm in St Athan. We all had an amazing time exploring the farm. It was so cool to see the sheep, lambs and cows up so close. We couldn’t believe how big the cows were or how big the tractor wheels were; they were taller than us! We would like to say a big thank you to Alysha and Tom for having us and we can’t wait for our next visit on the farm.

Year 3

Year 3 have worked hard on our topic, 'Food and Factory' . We have created pastel drawings of different fruit and vegetables and practised using money to pay for fruit and vegetables using different combinations of money.

Year 4

This week in Year 4, we’ve been very busy once again with our topic “Growing Together”. We’ve been out and about in the Spring sunshine, searching for signs of new growth. We’ve spotted trees in bud and beautiful blossoms.
We have been studying the human life cycle and we’ve had some amazing discussions in class.
We’ve also looked at human growth and we’ve applied our Maths Skills when accurately measuring our heights. We had great fun when trying to draw what we thought our skeleton looked like. Then we learnt the scientific names for the bones in our bodies.

Year 5

Year 5 have started to design their own roller coaster, looking at the materials they need and researching how they can connect parts. Watch this space to see how our design comes together. We have also started to write our own newspaper report. Are there any future journalists in year 5?

Year 6

We have been working hard this last week in year 6 and have enjoyed looking at how to create a complete circuit. We have identified different things that we want to investigate about electricity in different groups. We look forward to being inquisitive scientists.
We have been able to have some very grown up conversations this week about
‘Renewable energy’ and ‘Electric Cars’ as we are identifying arguments for and against in preparation for writing a balanced argument.