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This week we had lots of fun in gymnastics! We enjoyed getting the equipment out and exploring different ways to travel, move as well as lots of climbing and jumping! Here are a few pictures! 

Year Four spent the day living like an Ancient Greek! 

We prepared and cooked flat bread, participated in the Olympic Games and learnt a Greek song. 

Click continue reading to see more photos. Today in our Wild At Heart session we were learning all about spiders. We watched some videos of how spiders make their webs. We then went on a spider hunt around school to see if we could find any webs and spiders. We spotted lots of webs and a…

Click to see more photos. Today I’m our Wild at Heart session we learned about spiders and their webs. We then went on a spider web hunt around school and found lots of webs. We even found an egg sack! Well done to all the super spider spotters. 

Year 6 have been drawing whacky portraits of themselves using

the Zentangle drawing technique to stylise their individual features.  

Zentangle is an American method for drawing. 

It promotes concentration and creativity and at the same time increases personal well-being. 

Zentangle…

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Today, we have been practising our basketball skills. First we practised our short passes and bounce passes. Then we played a mini game to help us put our skills into practise and work as a team. 

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…

Poplar class served a 3 course meal for the wildlife today. 

For starters we made the birds Pine Cone Feeders. The main course was a delicious kebab with a selection of fruits, seeds and bread. Pudding was a healthy choice of an apple filled with seeds. 

We hope the birds give us a 5*…

Today we started learning about persuasive writing through the wonderful world of chocolate. We talked about persuasive language and then we were given some secret parcels to unwrap. We all had some chocolate in our secret parcels. We then got to taste the chocolate and worked in groups to come up…

Year Four have been given their brass instruments today!

The children have a selection of trumpets, cornets, baritones and trombones. 

Welcome to our 9 Poplar Trombone players! 

This week's English story was Julia Donaldson's "The Gruffalo." The children did so well with their writing this week. They described the Gruffalo using excellent adjectives and used these to write super descriptive sentences. They retold the story verbally through continuous provision challenges…

Number Formation

We started our first week in maths by playing lots of fun place value games and recapping on how to form our numbers correctly from 0-9.