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

Last Friday we were delighted to welcome parents into the classroom to see us smell and taste a variety of herbs. Everyone had great fun exploring the different scents and flavours, and we each planted our own herb to take home! This week our tasting adventure continues as we will be smelling and tasting tomatoes. We are very excited to see what everyone thinks!

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

This week in Hazel Class, we’ve launched into our brand-new topic on the Shang Dynasty — and what a fantastic start we’ve had! We got creative by making our very own ‘oracle’ shells and experimented with writing Chinese symbols, just like people did thousands of years ago. The classroom was full of excitement! In Maths, we’re continuing our fractions journey and the class are absolutely smashing it! Today we explored fractions that are ‘more than 1’ — stretching our brains an

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

This week, Hazel Class have continued their work on fractions. We have explored unit and non-unit fractions, and the children can now confidently explain the roles of the denominator and numerator. They also practised ordering fractions and showed great progress in comparing their sizes.  In Art, we finished the term by creating our own map “tiles.” The class spent time arranging these tiles to form a beautiful collage. We also revisited last week’s ‘stained glass’ maps — the

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