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Today we had to identify seasonal weather patterns. We explored the school garden and looked for different signs of autumn and discussed the different types of weather that happens in autumn. 
Today was a mild day, no need for coats, however, the children told me how it was cooler yesterday, with…

Year Six have been investigation how certain conditions can promote rapid fungi growth. We have selected our conditions and have observed the changes that have occurred in our slices of bread...with some interesting and yucky results!

Year 3 are loving learning how to make their own comics. This week we learnt how to add in narration, speech bubbles, thought bubbles and words. Now we know how to use all the tools, we have started to design our own comic books. Hopefully have some finished comics by next week. 

Year 2 did some fantastic art work this week, using Fazlur Rahman Khan's building designs to create tonal drawings of their own skyscrapers! 

We just love filling up our sketchbooks with our ideas and inspiration!

Is there anything Reception can't sort? They have sorted cups and saucers, a variety of buttons, 3d shapes and even their own shoes at home. They discussed colour, size, shape and even if the shapes could roll or not!

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We made faces using biscuits - they were yummy!

The children have been helping Humpty Dumpty to build a new wall. Humpty Dumpty asked them to build a wall using a certain amount of bricks, which they had to select from a large group of bricks. Some children were given number cards from Humpty Dumpty and they had to build walls }using the…

Year Six have been developing their programming skills using Scratch. We started by developing a stage, then a sprite to create the beginnings of a Space Invaders game!

We have some enthusiastic historians at DS! We've looked at British military medals and started designing our own using clay. We found that a lot of them are cross-shaped, to emphasise Britain's Christian heritage and the cross as a symbol of hope, peace and courage.

Year 5 had a great morning of team challenges in PE! #enjoy #embrace

Year 3 have been busy this week as they have planned and then written the continuation of our story, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs. They are so proud of their writing about what happened next to the Big Bad Wolf.

This week we have been learning about Humpty Dumpty. After discovering that all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty together again, we decided that we needed to create something to protect him, just incase he fell off the wall again. We spoke about the different materials we…