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Brookside had a fantastic day celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day with nostalgic music and by enjoying our lunches outside!  We have learnt about the Second World War and paused to reflect on the sacrifice made by so many in the cause of freedom and justice.

This week, Year 4 had a fantastic opportunity to build on their learning about Humanism with a special visit from Mr Brassington.  The session was engaging and informative, helping the children deepen their knowledge and understanding of what it means to live a good life without religion.

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Year 2 have been observers and investigators this afternoon in the Wildlife area.  They have found a number of different mini beasts and recorded their findings in a survey using tally strikes.

Knowledge: identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including…

As part of fractions Year 3 have been working out practically how to find 2/3, 3/4 or 5/8ths of a number.

Year 3 have been finding out that light cannot travel through an object and this is how shadows are created.

What a wonderful week to take literacy outside. The weather provided a wonderful muse to help us improve our sentences when setting a scene, be it under the beautiful blue sky or in the shade of our wooded copse. 

In a lively Year 5 classroom, students eagerly used Oreos to model the phases of the moon. By scraping off the cream to mimic waxing and waning crescents, they transformed a simple snack into a hands-on astronomy lesson. It was an engaging and delicious way to explore the lunar cycle!

We have started our topic on superheroes. Today the children thought about what they might look like as a super hero. We thought about our names and any special powers we might have.