Reuben has been showing Apollo Class his fantastic inquiry skills this week and has been incredibly engaged with our activities. He really enjoyed taking part in making a beehive for our tree in the classroom. Well done Reuben, you are doing so well!

For being a risk-taker in his maths; finding different ways to make numbers and using many manipulatives. Well done, Lorenzo! We are so impressed with your learning - keep it up!

William has been an amazing thinker when following instructions about how to make honey muffins this week! He thought about the steps in the recipe and communicated with his friends about what he needed to do next!

Gracie has been applying her phonics skills by demonstrating her segmenting and blending skills independently when creating her own story map! She applied her inquiry skills into her work, thinking about what she had previously learnt about honeybees and created a story with her friend based on our text ‘The Very Greedy Bee.’

George is a principled learner, he gives all his learning effort and has impressed us this week with his maths knowledge, being able to share counters into equal groups and record this information in a maths sentence.

Super work George!

Nora deserves the golden apple this week for her super attitude to her reading. She has grown in confidence and fluency and is able to communicate to others what she has read.

Keep up the love for reading Nora!

This week, Felicity has been very caring and has drawn and written some cards for the people in her classroom. She has also amazed us with her sounding out and blending, she has shown that she uses her knowledge to write unknown words. We also absolutely love her attitude to learning and her lovely smile! Keep being cheerful, Felicity!

Jack has been working very hard this on his Maths reasoning this week, he has been an amazing communicator and sharing his understanding with his peers. He has also been practising his French by greeting people throughout the school. Well done for being so friendly, Jack!

Charlie is always a super role model and has been demonstrating his principled nature this week. Charlie always plays fairly and treats all those around him with respect. Charlie has enjoyed discussing our recent topic of rights of the child and is looking forward to finding out more about this next term.

Katie has been showing us that she can be a great inquirer when working with others to explore how food chains work. Katie always has lots of questions to ask and is keen to learn more. Well done Katie!

Mia is always making the right choices in class and is a super role model showing her kind and caring nature to others. At break and lunch Mia includes others in her games and makes them feel welcome showing her principled nature. In class she has been a confident communicator this week sharing her knowledge of animals in the desert.

This week Jaeden I has been a good communicator when researching food chains. He was able to work as part of a group and was open minded when listening to other people's thoughts and ideas within his group. Well done!

This week, Ettie has worked extremely hard to plan a product that could be used for sustainability. She has been a great thinker by following her plan closely and creating her reusable cutlery accurately and to scale.

Leja has been open-minded and used a variety of materials to create a bracelet that supports sustainability. Leja has worked hard to follow her design accurately and planned the materials and tools she needed.

Well done Raynish! You have shown how caring you are this week! You have been helpful and kind in breakfast club and encouraged others to support each other as well. Keep up the excellent work!

Well done Logan! You have worked very hard this week to showcase how knowledgeable you are! You included a variety of fronted adverbials and similes to make your

story engaging. Keep up the great work!

Amelia, you have written a fantastic story this week all about living in the rainforest. You included some super descriptive language which really brought your story and characters to life. You also showed you are reflective when editing your story to make it perfect. An amazing piece of work, very well done!

Daniel has been an excellent inquirer and communicator this week. He wanted to know how much the Royal Family cost the UK and then how much they raised for charity. He then wrote a report to share his research. Daniel has been participating enthusiastically in all class discussions, using evidence from his reading to support his point of view. Here he is demonstrating how to sign the letter 'T' in Makaton.

Well done, Daniel. We have been very impressed with your effort this week.

Ieva has been an excellent thinker this week. She made clear links between our central idea and the class book. She discussed how we could use our understanding of interdependence and collaboration to ensure our classroom is always a great place to be. She has also been helping to train Willow!

Keep up the good work, Ieva!

This week, Mia has been an excellent communicator when working on her group's proposal for our Young Enterprise challenge. She was creative and happily listened to and built on others' opinions.

Well done, Mia!

Crystal has been a fantastic and enthusiastic inquirer this week when exploring the physical and human geography differences between Maidstone and Tromso. She has been a model student in terms of her work ethic and she continued to impress us.

Well done, Crystal!