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Oct 2, 2025

📚⚔️ History came alive in Year 3/4/5 today! ⚔️📚 Our young historians dived back in time to the Roman era and created their very own fact files about Boudicca 👑🔥. They explored who she was, why she led a rebellion, and what made her such an inspiring (and fierce!) leader. The children amazed us with their curiosity, creativity, and fantastic presentation skills. ✍️✨ We might just have a few future historians in the making! 🏺📖

Oct 2, 2025

A fun-filled week in Hawks and Eagles classes. The children did a great job completing the obstacle course and supporting the younger ones. In art, the talent continues in the classroom, sketching natural things from observations of the intricate details of form and pattern. The children also investigated how to create a safe password for future accounts - we talked keeping safe online and creating passwords that have a combination of letter, numbers and special characters to prevent accounts being hacked.

Oct 1, 2025

Year 1/2 have had another fabulous week! The children have produced some amazing writing in English. We have started a new book, Funny Bones. We have had lots of fun describing the characters using adjectives. We especially liked the dog and his funny song. In science we explored our classroom to find different materials. We then looked at the properties of these materials and thought about why objects might be made from them.

Sep 30, 2025

The children in Robins and Starlings class are having another amazing week! This week our key text is: The Tiger Who Came to Tea! The children are loving retelling the story using the props, they’ve been drawing the characters (which are fantastic!) and have been enjoying developing their fine motor skills by using the dough to create their own tiger models. In maths the reception children are developing their counting skills, counting out the bobbles to represent our numbers to 5. Year 1 have been busy in English writing captions and lists this week based on our key text, and they’ve been continuing with their learning about aerial photographs and human and physical features in Geography. The children are making wonderful progress with their sounds in phonics so thank you for supporting at home with flash cards and watching the virtual classroom videos! ⭐️🐸 #earlyyears #yearone #learningthroughplaying #continuousprovision

Sep 29, 2025

It was so lovely to see so many of our children taking part in the Bishop’s service on Sunday. Thank you to everyone who came and supported. The singing was thought-provoking and heartfelt, the confidence was wonderful to see and the community feel was great!

Sep 29, 2025

At Little Acorns we love to move our bodies and enjoy a variety of physical activities such as yoga, bike riding, throwing, balancing and jumping.

Sep 26, 2025

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Sep 26, 2025

This week year 1 and 2 have been looking at the architect Christopher Wren in art. We explored what it means to be an architect and which buildings Christopher Wren designed. The children worked on looking carefully at the shapes and patterns in his designs. They then recreated them, working hard on adding detail.

Sep 26, 2025

Today our school came together to celebrate Harvest Festival! It was wonderful to share songs, readings, and reflections on the importance of gratitude and giving. A big thank you to everyone who contributed donations — your kindness will make a real difference to our community. Thank you to the Minster church and all the adults who joined with us to walk to church to make this happen!

Sep 25, 2025

Year 5 and 6 have been very focused in art - studying the work by artist, Celia Smith. They watched a video which showed how she made large scale wire sculptures and then displayed them in a famous department store. With a range of images of Celia's work, the children chose their favourite one and concentrated on recreating the piece, looking at the intricate details and proportion. This afternoon, in the mini police session, the children learnt about road safety and the law then got to measure their own running speed using the speed gun - the maximum was 15 mph so no speed limits were broken!

Sep 25, 2025

🔦✨ Year 3/4/5 switch on their DT learning! ✨🔦 Our Year 3/4/5 students have been busy exploring electrical systems in their DT lessons. They began by building their very own circuits – and the excitement on their faces when the bulb lit up was simply brilliant! 💡 Once they mastered the basics, the children investigated different types of torches, comparing the pros and cons of handheld torches versus head torches. They thought carefully about how design affects function, and which type might be best for different situations. It’s been a bright start to our new unit, and we’re really excited to see the children design and create their very own torches by the end of this half-term! 🌟

Sep 23, 2025

Another busy week in Robins and Starlings class! The reception children have been working on their pencil grip and letter formation during our daily phonics lessons and continuous provision. We’ve been enjoying playing outside exploring and the receptions decided to use the lemons from the water tray to open their own lemonade stall! 🍋 Year 1s have been reading the Gingerbread Man and ordering the events of the story. We’ve also been learning about the architect Christopher Wren and having a go at drawing some of his building designs 🏙️ #continuousprovision #receptionyear1 #learnthroughplay

Sep 22, 2025

We have been getting creative and making marks on a group collage, as well as in the sand. We have been looking at the change of seasons and created some lovely autumn trees with a variety of different tools.

Sep 21, 2025

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Sep 20, 2025

Harvest Festival is on Friday 26th September in the Minster Church. If you can walk down with us, we would love to see you! Please let your child’s teacher or the office know. Drop your child off and wait at the front of school. We will register the children and come back out to walk down together. We are collecting food for the food bank - if you can spare some tins, dried food, shampoo or hygiene items, please bring them to school on Friday. Thank you!

Sep 18, 2025

The computing unit this half term is learning all about Bletchley Park and cracking codes. Today, the children in Hawks and Eagles tried to solve a range of codes such as Caesar cipher, pig pen cipher and Nth term. This really made them think and use all of their problem-solving skills to work out the secret messages. Many were frustrated but eventually got the result in the end!

Sep 18, 2025

The computing unit this half term is learning all about Bletchley Park and cracking codes. Today, the children in Hawks and Eagles tried to solve a range of codes such as Caesar cipher, pig pen cipher and Nth term. This really made them think and use all of their problem-solving skills to work out the secret messages. Many were frustrated but eventually got the result in the end!

Sep 18, 2025

🌟✨ Place Value Superstars! ✨🌟 This week, our Year 3, 4 and 5 mathematicians have been diving into the wonderful world of place value! 🧮🔢 From building numbers with base-10 blocks, to cracking puzzles and even creating giant human number lines across the classroom – our learners have been busy showing how digits can change value depending on where they sit. It’s been incredible to see their confidence grow as they spotted patterns, challenged themselves with tricky problems, and even taught each other their favourite strategies. 🌈👏 We’re so proud of the effort, teamwork and curiosity shining through in every lesson – future mathematicians in the making! 💡✏️ #PlaceValue #MathsIsFun #CuriousLearners #GrowingGreatMinds

Sep 18, 2025

Please see our dates for the year ahead.

Sep 18, 2025

Does your child start Reception next year (September 2026)? We are holding our open afternoon on Wednesday 22nd October at 4pm. Come and see our amazing learning and play spaces and meet our friendly team to see if this is the next step in education for your child.

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