Both at home and in school we all enjoyed our virtual visit from Zehra Hicks the author of 'Pug Hug' among many others! She read us a story and also taught us how to become illustrators. We had a great time!

We have been completely overwhelmed by the number of books purchased from our Amazon Wish Lists for World Book Day 2021. The total value of books donated so far is more than £350!

These books will complete the collections in many of the classrooms, providing the children with access to a range of high quality texts to enjoy, read and share together time and time again.

We would like to say a very BIG thank you to everyone who was able donate a book!

We have had a brilliant first week back at school! The children have been so excited to play together with our new resources and quickly settled back into our daily routines. Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have been busy learners both indoors and outside. We have learnt about pattern and 3D shapes in maths and impressed our teachers with our Little Red Hen oral storytelling.

We are thrilled to be back at school! We have got stuck into lots of practical activities such as drawing maps to show our journey to school, learning how to use a ruler in order to measure different objects and creating our own maps of the world, showing the continents. It has been lovely taking time to reconnect with our friends, catching up with each other and discovering that we have grown!

It has been wonderful to be back with some fantastic hands-on activities for us to get stuck in to! This week we had a 'Wonderful Water' Creative Day and completed a range of artistic challenges with the theme of water. In Shared Reading we have been reading Sir Tom Moore's story - 'One Hundred Steps' and have been thinking of our own events to inspire others, including walking one hundred laps of our school playground! We are also beginning to build our own forms of transportation to embark upon our own Dunkirk Evacuation mission...more about this to follow soon!

During our recent holiday, Greta in Hazel Class, her brother and a few of their friends took part in their own half-term challenge – as no one was allowed to travel or go on holiday – they planned to virtually ‘travel’ all the way from Maidenhead to Paris (over 360 km) by walking, running or cycling.

All the children went out every day, come rain or shine, to hit their personal targets and keep fit & active. Amazingly they smashed their initial target and managed to ‘travel’ over 680km between them - and in the process, raised over £500 for a great local children’s charity The Link Foundation, who really make a difference to so many children’s lives.

Well done Greta! You have clearly shown great imagination and determination and are a great example to us all!