The Courier

Reception Children and their Year 6 Buddies enjoyed Library Club today before going outside to enjoy the lovely sunshine.

The children have settled really well into the new routines of Year 1, and they have also been enjoying using different ways to discover and remember our new phonic sounds. We are learning the alternative spellings to the phonemes we have learnt in Reception - and although a little confusing at times, we are having a lot of fun in the learning process!

Class 2E and 2W used their observational drawing skills in Art last week. They worked together to create an interesting arrangement of objects and then carefully drew what they saw. The children produced some lovely detailed sketches and carefully added colour as well.

In Science, Classes 3S and 6W have started to study the topic of light. Year 3 have been exploring how we can see some objects more easily than others. Year 6 have been investigating how light travels using different types of investigations. 

4C Geographers have combined their map reading skills with historical evidence analysis this week. They have searched OS maps for place names of settlements of all sizes to work out which people name them in which era. Children realised that many Celtic names have died out or been changed as they are so old, Anglo-Saxons are mainly in the south and Vikings in the north of England. Rugby is in the middle and is a Viking name. The -by means farmstead.