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.

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

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

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!