Visitors !! For our fantastic finale to our Rainforest topic today, Kids Critters came to visit us. With much excitement we learnt even more about rainforest animals, and compared them to desert animals. We all wanted to keep the giant tortoise at school!

There were lots of gasps of excitement during the visit from Paramedic Jon.  He explained how he helps people and asked us lots of questions about the equipment he uses.  The children enjoyed investigating the inside of the ambulance and pressing the siren button.  All the children know to ring 999 if we need an

We recently had a visit from The Weald and Downland Museum which has helped us to learn more about our history topic, ‘Turrets and Tiaras’.  The children had a fabulous time learning about how to defend a castle and having a try with some toys children used to play with. 

In Year 2, the children wanted to see how castles would have been used.  We realised rulers would have thrown extravagant balls, so we decided to throw our own Banquet Ball.  In our English lessons, we wrote invitations using suffix adjectives and interesting verbs to ensure people would come.  At the ball, we did some

In Year 2 the children have been engrossed with the story of the Princess and the Pea.  The children couldn’t believe the princess could feel a pea under 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds!  In class we have sequenced the story ourselves and then written our own rewrite using exciting adjectives with suffixes and interesting

The children took part and delivered another wonderful Christmas Nativity performance during December.      

Each class helped to make a Guy for bonfire night.  These were then entered into the competition run by Newdigate Bonfire committee. They were all very smart with lots of creativity and artistic flair shining through. Best dressed prize went to the “Top Hat wearing Guy” created by Hedgehogs class

Tuesday 28th September, Thank you for all of the wonderful fruit and vegetable donations. We took part in Harvest Live today and have been learning about peppers, blueberries, tomatoes and carrots We have learnt about how they grow, how they are harvested and how the food then gets to the shops. We finished the day