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After dancing the night away, our children were up bright and bushy tailed to face the early morning challenges.

Year 6 arrived safely at Condover Hall yesterday afternoon. It was a very wet journey with plenty of torrential rain but when we stepped off the coaches the sun came out! After a quick lunch in the beautiful main hall, we embarked upon our first activities. Then tea and straight to the disco for…

What a brilliant workshop we had with Artefact Theatre Company yesterday! Each Year 6 class spent time working through the plot of Macbeth and acting out excerpts from the play. Such a tragic and dramatic play - yet we managed plenty of giggles along the way!

Thank you Artefact…

Year 6 watched an incredible performance by Artefact Theatre Company this morning all about Climate Change. This is a relevant topic for Year 6 as we will be learning all about global warming in our Geography lessons this year.  
 

In History this week, we learned about the Roman army and what the Roman soldiers wore and the weapons they may have carried. We then drew ourselves as Roman soldiers to make a testudo formation on our display board. I think we all make very good Roman soldiers. Click to see more photos.
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On Wednesday we were lucky to have a special 30 minute yoga session. We had a very relaxing time and learned some new yoga poses. 

In year 3 we have been learning to touch type using Purple Mash.

Today we had our skipping workshop with Gabby from Dan the Skipping Man. It was so much fun and we learned some new skills such as rodeo and crossover. Even the teachers got involved and we all got our hearts racing - skipping is hard work! 

This week in English, we are learning about persuasive writing. We discussed how adverts help persuade people to buy certain things and that they use adjectives to make their product sound better than others. We then each got a different chocolate bar to look at, smell and taste and think of…

Our new Reception children have completed their first full week at Heyhouses and have impressed us with how well they have settled in. They have made lots of new friends and have enjoyed playing together in all the different areas of the classrooms. It was a busy week but everyone had lots of…

Today we had a taster fencing session. It was great fun and we learned some new skills and vocabulary.

Today in History, we learned about Boudicca. We then had to draw a picture of her using a description.