It has been an eventful week at school with lots of enrichment opportunities taking place. Our Year 5 children took part in mental health workshops with our Royal Greenwich colleagues and both of our Year 2 classes visited a local church to explore the story of the Nativity. Mr Charleson also took our school choir to perform at the third annual 'Sparkle in the park' event at Avery Hill park on Thursday evening. It was great to hear them perform to crowds of people and to see the buzz it brought them.  Thank you to all of you for your generous donations towards our summer fair today. We look forward to this event during the last week of term and hope that you will be able to attend.  Next week, we will have our Christmas lunch on Thursday 7th December which coincides with Christmas jumper day on what promises to be a fantastic festive affair.

Have a great weekend and wrap up warm

Mr Phillips and the whole team

Year 1 - This week in Year 1, the children have become researchers, finding facts and information about the Dominican Republic, which is where their core text 'Island Born' is set. They researched the landscape, climate, wildlife, culture and food in the Dominican Republic and were excited to share the facts that they learnt with each other. They wrote brilliant fact-files showcasing all that they had learnt. "Did you know that there are more than 200 beaches in the Dominican Republic?", Tommy said. "The beaches are beautiful, so people come to visit them from all around the world!", said Lexi. 

Meanwhile, in Maths, the children have been exploring addition by adding numbers together or counting on from a number to find the total. "I can hold the biggest number in my head and then count on to find how much there is altogether", Marwa explained. The children have also been applying their addition skills, by answering word problems. They have been working hard to reason and problem solve to find the answers. The children have also also created their own maths story to reason and justify how items have been added together to make the whole.

In Computing, the children have been using bee-bots to follow programs and give directions. They built on this to create their own programmes and then ran these on the bee-bots. Year 1 have really enjoyed applying their programming skills from this topic. In Science, the children  have begun looking at their new topic 'seasonal changes. The children went outside to explore the seasonal changes that they could spot in the playground and nature school, su as frost on the ground and brown and fallen leaves from the trees. They then became weather reporters and explained what the weather is like in autumn and winter, considering what the weather might look and feel like and what they would need to wear during this season.