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On Monday 25th January, in celebration of Scotland's Burn's Night, pupils learned about the life and significance of Robert Burns. In an English comprehension zoom, they explored, discussed and wrote about some of his most famous poems. In response, pupils' created Scottish inspired art. 

Citizenship Week baking activity - Focus was on the importance of bees.

For English we have been studying the book Max by Bob Graham. Max is a superhero who learns to fly saving a bird. The children had many English tasks linked to this text including writing a postcard as Max to his nan.

Fr John gave us some blessed chalk so that we can bless our school (which is like our home) with a traditional blessing for the new year. We have put 20+C+M+B+21 on the wall to the entrance to the school. As we wrote this we said the blessing;

In year 5 we have been studying Hinduism. We all researched Hindu holy days and produced a slideshow​.

In Science this term we are studying Forces. We produced a fact file on Sir Isaac Newton .He discovered gravity after he watched an apple falling and questioned, “Why isn’t it going up or sideways?”.

For Citizenship focus children have been researching fossil fuels and the importance these have in our world today. They have been creating information booklets for ks1 pupils.

Year 6 pupils learned about the Epiphany on the 6th of January. Pupils in school shared knowledge over zoom by leading an assembly. Pupils at home and at school created jars of hope in celebration of the Epiphany.

Year 6 pupils are learning how to tell the time. Pupils created French clocks at home and at school.