Our Caterpillars have been exploring their classrooms, the outdoors, making new friends, and enjoying a range of exciting activities to support their learning and development.

Exploring Our Local Environment – A Visit to the River Thames

This term, our Literacy theme is all about conservation and the environment, and we’ve started with the inspiring book “We Are Water Protectors.” This beautiful story is helping us learn about the importance of water—how essential it is to life, and why we must all work together to keep it clean and healthy.

To bring our learning to life, we took a short trip to the River Thames, our closest water source. While there, we explored the many ways both we and the local community use and rely on the river. It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to observe first-hand how people interact with water in everyday life—whether for transport, wildlife, leisure, or conservation efforts.

This visit has sparked some wonderful discussions and ideas, which we’ll be using to support our writing over the coming weeks. We're looking forward to seeing how the children use what they've seen and learned to become true "water protectors" in their own words!

Eagle class have been busy learning how to add three numbers together, known as the addition of three addends. They have been using aggregation stories with three parts to help them understand how these numbers combine to make a total. To make adding easier and quicker, the children have been practicing number facts up to 10, which are really helpful when working with three small numbers. They’ve also been using doubles and near doubles strategies, making addition both fun and efficient. These skills are helping them build a strong foundation in maths for the rest of the year! They all did an excellent job flying through their learning. 

We are Ravens !🐦‍⬛

Ravens are amazing birds - they are smart, curious and full of creativity. They work together to solve problems, help each other and find clever solutions, just like we do in class. Ravens are also strong and brave, flying high and adapting to whatever challenges come their way. They remind us that when we support one another, we can rise higher than ever before. Being the Ravens means we are a that is thoughtful, resilient, and ready to spread our wings to reach new heights. We are proud to carry the name Ravens - a symbol of our intelligence, strength and soaring possibilities!

We are so proud of how well Year 5 have settled into their first week back after the summer break. They have approached their new routines with enthusiasm, kindness, and a real eagerness to learn. It has been wonderful to see the children supporting one another and showing such positive attitudes as they begin this exciting new school year. We are really looking forward to the months ahead and can’t wait to see all that Year 5 will achieve!

We are Tigers !🐯

As Tigers, we will be embodying strength, courage and determination this year - always aiming high, supporting one another and showing resilience when things get tough. It’s going to be an exciting year of growth and achievement and we are so proud of how Year 6 have begun their journey!

The Tigers have made a fantastic start to the new academic year! The children have settled in quickly and are already showing great focus, enthusiasm and readiness for the challenges ahead. 

Vauxhall Primary School, Vauxhall Street , London,  SE11 5LG

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Any queries related to SEND please contact Rebecca Coombs, school SENCO.