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This week in PE, Maple Class have been continuing our Target Games topic. We had a brilliant lesson focusing on improving our throwing accuracy and aim.

The children played a high-energy game where they had to collect beanbags and discs and throw them back into their own team hoop. However,…

In Science this week, Maple Class travelled all the way to the forests of Tanzania without leaving our school grounds!

We have been learning about the famous scientist Jane Goodall. To truly understand her work, the children became scientists for the afternoon. We grabbed our books and…

We have had an incredible lesson creating our Reflection Areas from our planning. We showed such team work and passion for our creations and then confidently presented them to our friends.

Our oracy skills and deep understanding of what spirituality means, shone through out.

We are…

Some of the children from Oak class took part in a netball tournament at Richard Crosse. They worked so well as a team and it was amazing to see them put their skills into action, to compete against children from other schools.

In our science lesson today we were investigating how volume changes with distance.

What happens to the volume of a sound as the distance from the source increases and decreases? Let’s find out.

Our scientists in Maple Class worked together this week for a massive investigation. We wanted to find how many of each pet are in our class, and we used some brilliant scientific methods to get our answers!

Step 1: Sorting and Counting with Cubes

We began by using concrete materials. Each…

 Today in RE we worked in groups to design our own reflection areas. 

We considered what we could see, hear, smell, touch and taste. 

Reception have had a "toad-ally" awesome time in maths this week! Our classroom has been filled with the sound of music and splashing as we dived headfirst into the world of subtraction using one of our favourite nursery rhymes: Five Little Speckled Frogs.

Introducing the concept of "one less"…

In our French lesson today we have been learning to count from 1 to 12. We are careful to pronounce the words correct,after listening to Kapow.

We had fun matching pictures to numbers then counting in our groups.

Oak Class has officially shifted gears into the design phase for our Greenpower racing Goblin. 

The brief was simple: create a look for our racer that stands out on the track and represents the unique personality of our class. 

We saw a  range of inspiration during our brainstorming…

Oak and Maple class enjoyed some quality time reading together.

The reading buddies worked together to explore different books.

Whilst the children in Maple practised their fluency and phonics, Oak class were great mini teachers helping the younger children to understand and explore…

At St. Andrew’s CE Primary School, we are always excited to embrace new ways of learning, especially when it comes to technology and coding. Recently, Oak Class had a fantastic opportunity to dive into the world of coding using Microbits, thanks to our very own pupil expert who led the…