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Year 2 have been learning all about plants in Science. On the last day of term Year 2 went on a seed walk around Irchester with Mrs Castle. We collected lots of different types of seeds and had a go at categorising them into the different ways which seeds are...

During the last week of term, Those History People visited Year 2 and delivered a whole day of practical history activities as part of the children’s Great Fire of London topic. The children looked brilliant dressed up in their outfits and had a fantastic time...

Year 5 took part in a really informative and interesting session with two magistrates, Andrew and John. They started by explaining how our justice system works, what happens in a court and the different roles that people play. After that, the children acted out a real...

Mental Health Week update: in Year 4, we have been exploring the different ways we can express our feelings by recording them in a journal this week. It didn’t matter whether we wanted to write a few sentences or to draw an image of our feelings, we all found that it...

The theme of our Year 6's mental health week activity was music. We listened to brief clips of different styles of music: focussing especially on their tempo. As the music was playing we used a black pen to imitate how the music made us feel. For example a jagged line...

The theme of our Year 3’s mental health activity was Meditation. We focussed on our breathing methods to help us regulate our emotions and practised our meditating poses. We have also created posters based on our affirmations and have been doing some mindfulness...

Year 2 have been learning about what affirmations are. We came up with lots of positive affirmations and practiced saying the affirmations to ourselves using the mirrors. We are amazing! All children across the school were praised for their positive engagement within...

As part of Children’s Mental Health Week Year 1 looked at how to be a good listener. They enjoyed playing listening games such as Chinese whispers, Simon says, and the ‘go’ game. They completed a daily challenge and even made phones out of paper cups and string to...

Throughout this term we have been learning about our mental health and how to relax our minds. Some of the methods we have been using are triangle breathing, square breathing and finger breathing. We have also been having lessons called Mini-me Mindfulness, it helps...

In Year 1 the children have been designing a fruit salad for a teddy bears picnic. The children tasted a variety of fruits and chose which ones to include in their final design. Then we tasted them!

Year 3 are investigating Light and particularly how it travels and reflects - in Lab_13 this week small groups built their own laser mazes using Lego and mirrors, then used laser pens and talc to reveal how the beams of light travel and reflect around the maze!