For Science Week, Apple have been focusing on the topic 'Plants'. We have had great fun exploring what plants need to grow, investigating what is inside a seed/bulb, dissecting a flower, and thinking how plants have adapted to survive in different environments. On Friday, the children worked hard to explore 3-D shapes. Reception children have also continued to have fun in maths and drawing club, based on our book 'Shh, we have a plan', by making their own bird nests.

We’ve had a lovely and exciting week celebrating Science Week ! The children have been busy exploring, experimenting, and asking lots of curious questions all week long. We wondered:  What temperature is best for melting chocolate? Why do balls bounce? How do kites work? It’s been fantastic to see such enthusiasm for discovering how the world works. Another brilliant and exciting week for Hazel Class!

It has been the perfect day for cakes and for choosing a new book. Thank you to everyone who donated books, joined in, shared their favourite reads, and discovered new stories to love. And a big well done to everyone involved in organising the book swap shop and baking delicious items for the cake sale. It was a resounding success! Some lovely comments overheard: "What a fantastic idea!" "This is like looking back at my childhood!" (From a year six child absolutely engaged

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.

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...

Welcome to Term 3! We’ve seen signs of Spring this week! The sun has shone, the robins are making an appearance in the grounds (they’ve even visited us in the classrooms!) and we’ve enjoyed some great playtimes. Our value for the term is ‘Courage’, and Miss Hitchcock lead an assembly about this on Wednesday. The children heard about the courage of a 13 year old boy who went above and beyond to help his family in a time of need. Over the coming weeks, we will be thinking about