What a great week! The weather has been warm and we've even had some sunny days! Our value for the term is ‘Courage’, and this week we learnt about the 6 types of everyday courage: moral, social, emotional, intellectual, creative and physical. We discussed how we show these types of courage without even realising it. We celebrated World Book day with an amazing costume parade and we were very lucky to have Alice Tait join each class to complete a range of activities. See her

What a wonderful week in Apple! Our class book this week is 'Shh, we have a plan' by Chris Houghton, and year 1 and 2 have worked hard to design a more effective way to catch a bird and written super instructions on how to make their design. Reception took this a step further and went outside to make their trap. Reception have also completed some super phonics and practised finding one more and one less of numbers up to 10. Finally, we had a brilliant time on World Book Day.

We have been wowed with some amazing costumes today, and have had so much fun in our sessions with Alice Tait...

Today, Apple class have had a great time designing Viking longships as part of their 'Travel and Transport' topic. The children have used mixed media to show key features of the longships.

As we approach the end of term, we have had another busy week filled with fun and excitement. Each class has had lots of fun and produced some amazing work. Well done to everyone for all of your hard work this term. In collective worship, we learnt about the perseverance of speed skater Stephen Bradbury, who won Australia's first gold medal in the Winter Olympics in 2002. He competed in four Winter Olympics and overcame severe injury to win. We finished by reflecting on and c

Apple class have been having lots of fun this week. Year1 and Year 2 have really enjoyed practising our times tables using different games, while Reception children were making towers to compare height and length, using key vocabulary. The whole class worked together to make a giant train track that filled the classroom - what an amazing job!. Finally, you may have notices a new piece of equipment in our outdoor area - our water wall!! It has been a wonderful addition to our

It's been another wet but wonderful week at Swainswick. The children have been busy in class and produced some amazing work! On Monday, we welcomed Debbie Smith from Education Safeguarding Solutions. Debbie visits schools across the country to provide feedback on their safeguarding systems, processes and culture. She spent the day with us looking at how we keep everyone safe, and spoke with children about their thoughts. Pupils shared they feel Swainswick is an inclusive and