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Well done to children in Year 6 who have been practising the guitar chords they have been taught and are now able to play along with some Christmas songs - it was wonderful to hear you this week! Keep practising!

Year 4 sang beautifully to residents of Laurel Bank Nursing Home this morning. It was a lovely time of singing and chatting with some of the residents. The children were amazed to meet one lady who is 100 years old and a gentleman who went to The Cathedral School many years ago. 

We have been learning all about homophones. How many homophones do you know?

As part of STEM week Year 1 made a bug run for woodlice to investigate which habitat they liked the best. It was very interesting!

Year 3 have been exploring light and shadows in STEM week. We now know that light travels in straight lines, and we know the meaning of the terms opaque, translucent and transparent. We had lots of fun finding things around the classroom that we could test with our torches, and we also used…

We have been very busy in reception during STEM week designing and making vehicles. We love using the mobilo for this and created all kinds of vehicles including fire engines, cars, lorries, buses and buggies! We then did a scientific test to see if they move faster on the shiny floor or on the…

Today as part of our STEM week activities we have been exploring how we can change the pitch of sounds on instruments. Then we made our own 'instruments' that made different pitched sounds. As you can imagine, it was a very noisy afternoon!

You can hear how we used glass jars with water in them…

We have been investigating if the tallest people have the biggest feet. We thought that they would. We worked in groups to find the tallest and then who had the biggest feet. We took our shoes off and compared the sizes. We found that the tallest people in our class don’t have the biggest…

Today Year 2 have been learning about fire safety. We have found out what we have to do if there is a fire in our house. We are all going to ask our parents to talk to us about setting up a Fire Plan at home and checking that we have working smoke alarms.

Year 6 have really enjoyed our STEM week - exploring the properties of LIGHT.

As well as testing and sorting various classroom objects into opaque, transparent and translucent, they have been measuring and graphing the relationship between shadow and the distance an object is from a light…

Year 6 have had a great time in PE...

They thought we were playing a huge game of 'The Floor is Lava' but actually we were practicing gymnastics, using core strength, ensuring our transitions were smooth and controlled and exploring varying points of contact with apparatus at height and varying…

Year 4 showed great teamwork and collaboration today as they prepared posters to present their results and findings from their STEM learning so far. Well done, STEM teams!