Badgers! What a fantastic start to the new school year! We have done some amazing safety learning this week, including '999 what's your emergency', fire safety and keeping safe within our community. We have been so impressed with how well our year 5 and 6 children have settled back into school. They have shown such maturity, enthusiasm and responsibility, and it has been wonderful to see them stepping confidently into their roles as our oldest pupils! Our Badgers are such important role models within our school community. The way they behave, the choices they make and the example they set have a real impact on our younger children. They help to shape the values and culture of our whole school and we are looking forward to seeing them grow, lead and inspire others throughout the year!

Hedgehogs have begun the school year by learning about road and bike safety. We have learnt to 'stop, look, listen, think' when crossing the road. We went out on the playground (in the rain!) and practised crossing the road while some children were on vehicles. We practised using a zebra and pelican crossing too. When learning about bike safety we ensured we had our helmets on, checked our brakes, tyres and bell.

Can you help Hedgehogs out with their Autumn 1 topic... If you are using transport during the holidays and you get a ticket please could you save your tickets and give them to Mrs Ruffle the first week back. Thank you.

As part of our topic this term Hedgehogs have been learning about life cycles. The children and Mrs Ruffle were very excited to witness this today... Insect Lore

A huge congratulation to Oak, not only have the win Summer 2 house points, they have also collected the most house points over the year. They will get to celebrate together when we return in September. 1st Oak 8561 (year total: 54,929) 2nd Maple 7648 (year total: 54,072) 3rd Birch 7356 (year total: 52,249)

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Hedgehogs created their own healthy wraps today. They continued to build on their food preparation skills and considered the different food groups they were including, all linked to our 'Healthy Me' topic.

At the end of week 6 Oak have regained the top position. 1st Oak 7061 2nd Maple 6835 3rd Birch 6484 Who will be the winners for term 6 and whole will win overall for the year? Only a few days left!

A big thank you to Miss Buckingham from Matt Fiddes Martial Arts who came and led Hedgehogs in a Karate session this morning. This was part of our Healthy Me topic and the children really enjoyed it.

This term, the Squirrels have been learning how to text type. They began by learning how to make capital letters, add spaces, full stops and delete. They then learnt how to change the font, the size, underline, make it bold or use italics. This week they put all their learning together to write sentences and then edit them to make it their own!

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2 more weeks of house points to collect and this week sees first and third switch places! What will week 6 totals look like I wonder. Week 5 totals: 1st Maple 5990 2nd Oak 5855 3rd Birch 5819

Kings and Queens - Squirrel Class In History this week Squirrel class learned about the people who lived in castles. They pretended to be different people such as soldiers, servants and noblemen/women. They also drew themselves as a queen or a king and designed a frame to go around their portrait. Here are some portraits in progress...

Current house points totals: 1st Birch 5269 2nd Oak 5088 3rd Maple 5035

As part of our 'Healthy Me' project Hedgehogs made fruit kebabs today. They thought about the equipment they would need and ensured they washed their hands and the fruit. The best part of course was eating them!