Hazel Class kept cool during the hot weather by enjoying board games in the shade, relaxing foot spas, creating 3D cakes for our class play, and splashing in water play, while still finding time for some maths and writing too!

What a fantastic sports day! Well done to all of the children who showed fantastic sportsmanship and were amazing athletes! A win for Woolley this year- congratulations Woolley! Huge thanks to Mr Rouse for organising the events, the spectators who cheered us on so well (great parents race too!) and St Marks for hosting us. Click here to see pictures. Our Christian value for the term is compassion. In celebration assembly this week, we talked about why it is important to be si

What a brilliant Sports day! Everyone worked so hard, and congratulations to Woolley on their win! The children were very supportive of one another, and it was great to be able to enjoy a morning of sports in the sunshine! Huge thanks to Mr Rouse for organising and St Marks for hosting us. Thank you also to all the brilliant spectators who cheered everyone on.

Hello from Hazel! We have had another busy and productive week! In Science, we have been exploring different containers for growing cress seeds. The children will be evaluating which containers were most effective and identifying the features that make them suitable for plant growth. In French, we have been practising our fruit vocabulary, and the children are becoming much more confident. In English, the class has been working incredibly hard on using direct speech and subor

Apple class have focused on their DT project this week: moving Father's Day cards! We started by evaluating existing cards, thinking about the positives and negatives of each design. We then investigated how to make something move in a card and explored levers and simple mechanical systems before making our own. (see the pictures below). After that it was time for the big task of designing and making our own cards. We won't share the final products here yet, we don't want to

It's been another soggy week, but each class has been busy, busy, busy! Our Christian value for the term is compassion. In celebration assembly this week, we talked about why we show compassion. Jesse suggested that if we show compassion to other people, they will show compassion to us. We discussed the quote " Compassion is at the heart of everything we do...to lose our compassion is to lose what it is to be human", and then watched a video about a person who showed compass

Rehearsals for Pirates of the Curry Bean are in full swing in Oak Class, and the children have thrown themselves into the process with brilliant enthusiasm. This week they’ve been focusing on character development – experimenting with movement, position on stage, comic timing and voice projection to bring their roles to life. Next week, we’ll be in the creative scenery and props. Cardboard, paint and plenty of imagination as we begin to build the stage. A huge thank you to

Hazel class have had such a lovely week, despite the rainy weather! We are making fantastic progress in maths and have been exploring hundredths, looking at them both as decimals and fractions – the children have been working really hard. In Science, we’ve had some brilliant and thoughtful discussions about how we can reduce the amount of plastic we use. A big well done and thank you to those children who were brave enough to have their packed lunches looked at under scrutiny

Apple class have continued our focus on science, learning about more inventors and conducting more investigations! We started by learning about Thomas Edison and investigated how we can make our own circuits We then moved on to Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a scientist who worked on the Aeolus project, a satellite which investigates wind speed to help measure climate change. Although we don't have access to the satellite, we investigated wind direction by making our own weather vanes

Welcome back to term 6! It's been a wet week, but it's not stopped us from having a fantastic time. *** SAVE THE DATE - Friday 19th June- Sports day for all classes at St Mark's astro turf (morning until 11am- more information to follow about transport). Children will register as usual at Swainswick Church School *** Parents and carers will be welcome to join us at St Marks and cheer the children on. Our Christian value for the term is compassion. In celebration assembly th

Rehearsals for “Pirates of the Curry Bean” are underway, and Oak Class has made a wonderful start. The children are learning their lines with enthusiasm, singing with confidence and using impressive dance moves. Enthusiasm and teamwork are shining through – well done, everyone. And reflecting back, what a fantastic way Oak finished off Term 5. Year 6 made the most of their post-SATs choclate fountain celebration and enjoyed a trip into Bath where they put real-life skills

Welcome back, Hazel Class! We hope you all had a wonderful and refreshing half term—it’s been lovely to see everyone back, smiling and ready to learn. This week we have jumped straight into our exciting new maths topic: decimals. The class has made a fantastic start, showing great enthusiasm and understanding. We are so impressed with how well the children have begun to understand this tricky concept already—what a brilliant effort. In DT and Science, we will be exploring th

Apple class have been having lots of fun with our new Science topic, 'Super Scientists'. We started the week with Isaac Newton and explored his understanding of gravity. We investigated this using spinners and paperclips. We noticed that the heavier spinner would hit the ground first because it is heavier. We then moved on to his work on light, focusing on what happens to light as it moves through a transparent object. We used a range of prisms to explore how light travelled

Apple class have been lucky enough to work with the year 5 children today! We had lots of fun, from sharing books and supporting each other in maths to producing some amazing mandalas in art using natural materials. The year 5 children were such a wonderful help and we loved having them!

As we reach the end of week 4, we must say a massive well done to the year 6 children! What a week! You have all done an amazing job with SATS and we are very proud of you. Thanks also to the parent volunteers who helped things run smoothly this week, and a big thank you to Mrs Coleman for all of the fantastic teaching and support she has shown to year 6! Our Christian value for the term is trust. In celebration assembly this week, we talked about how it is important to trust