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• Thursday 23 May 2024 Kingfishers School Trip to Maidstone Museum Walk Like An Egyptian
• Thursday 23 May 2024 Lego Club Term 5 I am happy to report that, although it seemed a bit crazy to open Lego Club to the whole school, everyone was sharing, happy, excited, and working together with no issues. Seeing everyone happy, playing with the Lego, and helping each other has been amazing and is a reminder of why I chose this career.
• Friday 17 May 2024 Wellbeing Day "The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind."
• Friday 17 May 2024 Glorious Mud - Part 3 The mud will wash off, but the memories will last a lifetime.
• Thursday 16 May 2024 Cuckoos Term 5 Week 5 Another busy week for Cuckoos. This week they have been doing loads of maths, they had their colour run trials, had a go at drawing with charcoal and made plant mazes!
• Tuesday 14 May 2024 Firecrests Leeds Castle Trip 14.5.24 Firecrests had such an amazing day at Leeds Castle. They travelled by coach and had a workshop covering all of the owners and caretakers of Leeds Castle which included lots of dressing up! This was followed by lunch and a quick trip to the playground. They were then taken on a guided tour of the castle and got to see all sorts of amazing scenes as well as finding out about the places Henry VIII loved when he was there. They were absolutely exhausted by the time they came home.
• Friday 10 May 2024 Robin Class Trip to The Imperial War Museum Robin's had a BRILLIANT day exploring the IWM in London on Wednesday 8th May 2024. W travelled up by train (with our own reserved carriages, which was very exciting), walked through London and got to experience the amazing exhibits at the museum. We also had a workshop with an army veteran and a lady who was a child during WW2. A truly unforgettable day for all who attended. The children had great fun, learnt a lot and were awesome.
• Friday 10 May 2024 Cuckoos Term 5 Week 4 What a busy a hot week Cuckoos had this week! Not as many pictures pictures as usual but still a great amount of learning.
• Thursday 9 May 2024 Firecrests Supermarket Letters 9.5.24 Firecrests have been learning about environmental issues from their book Somebody Swallowed Stanley. They wrote letters to supermarkets to persuade them to use less plastic packaging so that the sea can be less polluted and the animals are not harmed. They were very worried about turtles easting carrier bags because they confuse them with jellyfish.
• Wednesday 8 May 2024 English National Opera "Voi che sapete" The Marriage Of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Tuesday 7 May 2024 Hotshotz Taster Day 2024 On Friday 26th April the children were all treated to a taster session from Hotshotz tennis club.
• Tuesday 7 May 2024 Cricket taster with Benenden girl's school coach On 30th April years 5 & 6 were treated to an excellent Cricket taster session with Liam from Benenden Girl's school. Liam is the head of Cricket at the school and also the head coach for the Brazilian ladies Cricket team.
• Friday 3 May 2024 Firecrests Time 3.5.24 Firecrests started learning to tell the time today. With the help of an ENORMOUS clock, they learnt how to tell the time to the hour and the half hour. They picked up very quickly on the link between our fractions topic and half on the clock and some were even asking about how we can show quarters on a clock. They made their own times on their clocks and explained what sort of things might be happening at different times during the day. Their favourite was half past 10.... break time!
• Friday 3 May 2024 Cuckoos Term 5 Week 3 Another full and fantastic week for Cuckoos we have been:
• Thursday 2 May 2024 Firecrests Sketching Botanicals 2.5.24 Firecrests used their new sketching skills out in the wellbeing garden today. They each chose a plant which interested them and sketched the outline. They then used shading to show which areas of the plants were lighter and darker. Some of them chose to add a new perspectives to their work by showing the buds in different stages of development. They really enjoyed sitting outside in the beautiful weather and found lots of amazing plants in the wellbeing garden to use. Look at their amazing work!
• Thursday 2 May 2024 Firecrests Meet Olive 2.5.24 On Thursday we had a very exciting visit from Olive and her lovely triplets. Darren and Hannah were very kind to bring Olive the sheep and her three incredibly cute lambs in for us to meet. We had a fantastic time stroking them and feeding Olive digestive biscuits as well as having many of our questions answered, from asking their names to finding out what happens with their wool. We were joined by Swallows who popped out to see them and even Mr Emmett snuck out of his class for a peek!
• Monday 29 April 2024 Mini London Marathon 29.4.24 Wow, what an incredible event!!!
• Thursday 25 April 2024 Term 5 Week 2 What an amazing week Cuckoos had!
• Thursday 25 April 2024 End of Term Performance It was lovely to see all the hard work the children have been putting into their drumming lessons.
• Wednesday 24 April 2024 Firecrests Botanical Drawing 24.4.24 Firecrests have been looking at flower and plant forms and trying to draw their outlines. They looked at the techniques of line drawing and sketching and have tried drawing the same flower a few times to see which versions they prefer.
• Monday 22 April 2024 Firecrests Pancake Fractions 22.4.24 Firecrests have been exploring fractions and how we can split a whole into different parts. Obviously we had to use something tasty, so pancakes it was! They used the pancakes to show halves and quarters as well as comparing half to two quarters to see that they are equal.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Firecrests Environmental Debate 19.4.24 Following their learning from the book Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts, Firecrests had a debate about whether or not we should use plastic packaging. They wrote their points down and some chose to present these to the class as counter to each others points. They spoke really clearly and made some very interesting observations about our use of plastic.
• Friday 19 April 2024 Term 5 Week 1 Well done Cuckoos, week 1 done and dusted!
• Friday 19 April 2024 Adverbs Relay Race Quickly, slowly, hurriedly, urgently, leisurely...
• Wednesday 27 March 2024 Term 4 Activities Another busy term!
• Tuesday 26 March 2024 castles, Knights and Princesses day!
• Tuesday 26 March 2024 Lego Club term 4
• Friday 22 March 2024 Firecrests PE Activities 21.3.24 Firecrests have worked hard this term to earn all of the stars in their jar. As their treat, they chose to have all of the PE equipment out to make their own games with. They tried Netball, Large Apparatus, Gymnastics and even used their skills from our PE lessons with Tennis. They had a lot of fun on what turned out to be a very lovely, sunny day!
• Wednesday 20 March 2024 William Morris Art "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful" - William Morris
• Monday 18 March 2024 Firecrests Coil Bowl Making 18.3.24 Firecrests have been using their new clay skills to create coil bowls. They are part of their kintsugi topic of finding the flaws in bowls and fixing them with gold. They learnt how to roll, shape and build with clay and will get to apply their kintsugi skills once they are dry.

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