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Today we had a lovely surprise when Mila brought in her chocolate that she had made at home following our ‘design a chocolate bar’ lesson last week. She had followed her design carefully and layered her chocolate with caramel and a marshmallow surprise in the centre. Mila kindly gave us all a…

Cherry Class enjoyed tasting different Greek foods as part of their research for Design Technology.

This week was our second week studying one of our class favourites 'The Gruffalo'. We had the best time making our very own Gruffalo crumble, writing our own recipes and even building our own characters from the story. We then imagined what our own woodland creature would look like, we painted…

This week our maths focus has been on addition. We have been learning the key vocabulary for addition as well as exploring different methods and equipment in the classroom to help us to solve addition problems. 

This week we had lots of fun in gymnastics! We enjoyed getting the equipment out and exploring different ways to travel, move as well as lots of climbing and jumping! Here are a few pictures! 

Year Four spent the day living like an Ancient Greek! 

We prepared and cooked flat bread, participated in the Olympic Games and learnt a Greek song. 

Click continue reading to see more photos. Today in our Wild At Heart session we were learning all about spiders. We watched some videos of how spiders make their webs. We then went on a spider hunt around school to see if we could find any webs and spiders. We spotted lots of webs and a…

Click to see more photos. Today I’m our Wild at Heart session we learned about spiders and their webs. We then went on a spider web hunt around school and found lots of webs. We even found an egg sack! Well done to all the super spider spotters. 

Year 6 have been drawing whacky portraits of themselves using

the Zentangle drawing technique to stylise their individual features.  

Zentangle is an American method for drawing. 

It promotes concentration and creativity and at the same time increases personal well-being. 

Zentangle…

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Today, we have been practising our basketball skills. First we practised our short passes and bounce passes. Then we played a mini game to help us put our skills into practise and work as a team. 

Our new Reception children have completed their first full week at Heyhouses and have impressed us with how well they have settled in. They have made lots of new friends and have enjoyed playing together in all the different areas of the classrooms. It was a busy week but everyone had lots of…