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 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 2 

6th March 2026

Announcements: Wow! What a wonderful week we have had celebrating World Book Day together. It was such a joy to see all of the children's fabulous costumes and PJs and to share our favourite books together. Well done, Year 2, you made us…

A sunny week in Reception, where our lovely garden is showing signs of Spring!

Phonics - we have looked at longer words this week with two syllables and introduced words that we can 'chunk' when reading. This means reading the first syllable of the word, then the next, then blending…

This week we have been learning about Dinosaurs. We share some dinosaur stories that we found in the library. We talked about the different dinosaurs and how some were carnivores and some herbivores. 

We used our fine motor skills to cut out triangles to stick on a stegosaurus' back. We made…

 Weekly News, Spring B, 27th Feb 2026 

Announcements: We are so excited to celebrate World Book Day with everyone next week! All children are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite book character or in PJs (with shoes and coats for outdoor play still, please). We cannot wait…

At Nursery this week, we started our new topic of What happened long, long ago? We started off by sharing the story of the great race. We learnt about how the animals all raced across the river and that is now the order of Chinese Zodiac was decided. We talked about Lunar new year celebrations. We…

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term. The children have settled beautifully back into school, showing us their super learning behaviours.

Phonics -

Graphemes - air, er, words with double digraphs dd, mm, tt, bb, rr, gg, pp, ff, tt.

Tricky words - are, sure,…

English

In English, we have been reading Ruby’s Worry, part of the Big Bright Feelings series by Tom Percival. Using this story, the…

Hi all,

Miss Devenny and I would just like to say how proud we are of how well the children settled back into school life this past half term. After Christmas, there were lots of staffing changes, as well as general topic changes and expectations and I would just like to say a huge thank you…

Another busy week in Reception, we hope you have a lovely half term!

Phonics -

Graphemes - ur, ow, oi, ear.

Tricky words - my, by, all.

Words written - turn, hurt, down, now, join, boil, hear, near.

Maths -

This week, we have consolidated our understanding of the…

Hi all,

What a wonderful week we have had in Year One! The children have continued to show incredible enthusiasm towards all of their learning and have braved the wet and windy weather with beautiful smiles.

English

In English, we have learnt all about Poetry! We have focused on two…

Weekly News 

Spring A

5th February 2026

Announcements: What a wonderful week we have had in Year 2! The children really enjoy playing outside with our Opal equipment in all weathers, please may we ask children have wellies, waterproofs and spare clothing when the weather…

Another lovely week with fantastic learning in Reception - we are half way through writing our 3rd book in English and this term, we are writing animal stories. The children are becoming excellent authors and illustrators and it's amazing to watch their imaginations develop page after…