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• Friday 21 March 2025 Dens, Hammocks, Knots & Frogspawn Holly and Sweet Chestnut have had another glorious day in the woods, filled with sunshine and birdsong. This week Sweet Chestnut group were greeted to Broad Oak Wood by a kestrel swooping down to the ground in an attempt to catch something for breakfast! Live learning in action, resulting in some of the children opting to carry out their own independent research into birds of prey.
• Friday 21 March 2025 18.03.25 Kudus Science
• Thursday 20 March 2025 Hippo Class this week This week we welcomed the start of spring and have enjoyed lots of time in the sunshine. In maths this week we have begun a 2 week unit on patterns and the children have really impressed me on how quickly they have picked up completing repeating patterns. In phonics we have learnt the trigraph ‘air’ and in writing they have wowed me yet again with their writing on castles. Our story of the week is ‘The very last castle’ and the children have really engaged with this story, all about a girl who wants to explore the last castle in her town. In PSHE this week we talk about how to care for our world and in RE we are continuing our learning on the Easter Story. In PE we continued to develop our jumping skills, remembering to use our arms and bend our knees to help us. Every week in our music lesson we listen and respond to a song or piece of music; we dance to it and then talk about it afterwards. We then play a game where we listen to the pulse of a
• Friday 14 March 2025 Very Hungry Caterpillars Holly and Sweet Chestnut had a wonderful time in the woods this week. We were treated to some glorious sunshine and impressive hail showers too, four seasons in one day! Holly were personally greeted into Broad Oak Wood by a vivid green Common Frog who was waiting for them at the hazel doorway ! We are all very excited to collect some frogspawn next week to observe the lifecycle of a frog.
• Friday 14 March 2025 Hippo Class This Week We have had a lovely week in Hippo Class learning about the jobs people did in castles, and the role of a knight. The children are really engaging in this learning and have really impressed me with their knowledge. We have been reading the story ‘The castle the king built’ and reading information books about castles. The children have been writing about kings and queens this week in writing group and are developing their independence. In phonics we learnt the igh sound and in maths we learnt about subtraction. We had lots of fun in PE on Monday developing our jumping skills, and in dance on Tuesday with Mrs Mileham, developing our dancing skills. In PSHE we talked about how to be helpful in school and at home and how to keep school and home clean and tidy. In RE we are continuing our learning on The Easter Story, this week learning about Good Friday. In music we listen and responded to The Planets: Mars, by Gustav Holst.
• Thursday 13 March 2025 Snowing in March! We loved seeing the snow flurry this week! It is so rare to see snow in March that we stopped learning for a few moments to see if we could catch a snowflake on our tongues! What a lovely moment of joy!
• Wednesday 12 March 2025 Kudus English
• Friday 7 March 2025 Colourful Caterpillars and Blazing Birch Bark At Forest School, Holly & Chestnut were welcomed to the woods by the sunshine and the sound of birdsong. The morning began with a game to help them to think like a bird and to find colourful caterpillars hidden around the woods. The children eagerly searched high and low, discovering their unique colourful caterpillars and returning them to their nests in Stump Central. We thought about why some colours were harder to find than others - we decided the light blue ones were the hardest because they were tricky to see against the beautiful blue sky.
• Friday 7 March 2025 Hippo Class This Week We have had a lovely week in Hippo Class. We have learnt the er sound in phonics and continued our learning on number bonds to 10 in maths. We are also continuing our learning on The Easter Story, this week focusing on Maundy Thursday.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 Hippo Class impressed everyone with their world book day costumes and enjoyed some quality time reading with their buddies.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Zebras World Book Day 2025
• Thursday 6 March 2025 Year 6 World Book Day 2025 Year 6 threw themselves into character for World Book Day. We celebrated our favourite books, our favourite authors and participated in a book scavenger hunt.
• Thursday 6 March 2025 World Book Day! Kudus - Year 2
• Tuesday 4 March 2025 03.03.25 Kudus DT - learning how to prepare fruit and vegetables for our fruit kebabs!
• Friday 28 February 2025 Making Maps & Mudslide Monsters!! At Forest School, every day is an adventure, full of learning and fun! This week, Holly & Chestnut Groups got to make our own interactive map, turning our outdoor space into a land of discovery. The kids were excited to explore,and set off to find the specially created place names for the key landmarks, like the climbing tree, the lookout, and the hazel doorway. The children then plotted the points on our bespoke Forest School map. It was a wonderful mix of creativity and problem-solving as we charted out our forest world. The map is going to be addded to week on week and become truly personalised to the children's experience. This beautiful resource has been made for us by our talented artist, friend and ex-parent of the school - 'Bramble' Days like this remind us how important it is for kids to connect with nature, explore, and, of course, have fun. Forest School is the best place to do just that!
• Friday 28 February 2025 Hippo Class This Week Hippo class have really impressed us this week; they have come back from half term and have been amazing at remembering all the skills they’ve learnt so far and applying those skills to their new learning, and extending their learning further. We have learnt oa this week in phonics and using tens frames in maths to learn our number bonds to ten. We have been writing sentences about our story of the week ‘Jack and the beanstalk’, and have started our new learning focus on Castles and Knights. The children have already been using their new knowledge on castles in their child initiated learning and we have already observed fantastic castles being made! We’ve seen castles in the sand pit, in small world play, out of cardboard boxes and out of our big wooden blocks, and the children are using the new vocabulary we’re focusing on such as moat turret, drawbridge, portcullis and arrow slits. In RE we began learning the Easter Story, this week focusing on Palm Sund
• Friday 28 February 2025 UK Indoor Athletics Championships 2025
• Friday 28 February 2025 Umpiring success Huge Congratulations to Miss Wilkins. At a recent Awards Ceremony Miss Wilkins was awarded "Favourite Umpire of the Year" for the Ashford District Netball League.
• Thursday 27 February 2025 Making Parachutes to Test Air Resistance To test air resistance, we designed a fair test to see if the size of a parachute canopy impacted the time the parachute took to fall to the ground. We had great fun creating and testing our parachutes - which thanks to Mrs Khan in the office, were made using actual parachute silk!
• Friday 14 February 2025 Hippo Class this week We have had a lovely last week of term. We have learnt the or sound in phonics and have learnt about weight in maths. We have concluded our learning on Space and we’re looking forward to beginning our learning on castles and knights next term.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Local Geography Walk for Leopard Class
• Thursday 13 February 2025 12.02.25 Kudus Music!
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Viking Day 2025
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Safer Internet Day 2025: Spotting Scams Zebras class really enjoyed being part of a live lesson with BBC teach, learning all about internet safety and how to spot scams. We learned about when an offer is too good to be true and how to consider if a message is genuine.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Mental Health Week in Giraffe Class We have been learning about our 5 'c' needs - comfortable, capable, connected, control and count. We focussed this week on 'connected' and how we can connect with our class mates. We each received a bucket and we then went round and anonymously 'filled our buckets' with kind words and recognition of the qualities that we admire in others. This has really boosted the children's perceptions of themselves and others and the children keep using their buckets to motivate them.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Giraffe's Class use scaled distance In Geography we have been using our atlases' and maps of the UK to measure scaled distances between different locations. We used the measurement that 1cm was equal to 20km.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Year 4 Computing Making patterns using repeats and loops.
• Thursday 13 February 2025 Giraffe's Front Crawl In gymnastics this week we have been practising our front crawl. We have been using the tuck position and flat hands to ensure we stay safe.
• Wednesday 12 February 2025 Giraffe News
• Wednesday 12 February 2025 Kudus News

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