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Year 3 had a wonderful day at Norton Priory learning how archaeologists find out about the past.

We also learnt some Stone Age skills such as how to make fire and cook woolly mammoths (or marshmallows in our case) around an open fire. 

Mental Health Week w.b. 6.2.23

Year 2 have been discussing Mental Health and with what is happening in their daily lives. They understand that mental health is all about how they are feeling, the thoughts they are having, how this affects the choices they make and how they behave. They have…

Year 2 are being very imaginative in creating their own townscape dioramas.

Knowledge: to use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surroundings.

Skills: to design a purposeful 3d…

Today we discussed physical and mental health and how important it was to look after both. The children came up with lots of ideas to make their brains happy and healthy including; eating healthy foods, having a good night sleep, talking about how we are feeling, going outside for fresh air and…

In Assembly with Mr Orme this morning, we focused on our children's mental health.  At Brookside, children are given time to talk about and celebrate their differences. It is an opportunity to support others and to help everyone feel good about themselves. 

The theme of ‘Let’s…

This half term, year 5 have been basing their literacy work around the story of 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

A summary of this amazing tale - Arthur decides to make the journey to the great hall and help Thor catch the wicked Fenrir. There, he is set the almost impossible task of sourcing…

Thank you so much Y6 for your special homework efforts to complete your geography inspired 'Learning Logs'  . . . .  All About Biomes!

Such variety and creativity!

I wanted to share them with you all!

To support some of our Y5 today, a FRACTION of the class was having a WHOLE lot of fun with fractions!

Pupils were able to use their fractions knowledge in various ways, such as cutting a Wagon Wheel in HALF and QUARTERS and splitting oranges into eighths to bring segments back together to make…

In our literacy lessons, Year 5 have been channelling their inner directors and working together to create a storyboard for a scene from 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

We had to plan out how the scene would be shot if we were the director, we had to take into consideration how we would capture a…

PC Johnson generously gave Y6 her time this afternoon to talk about KIND WORDS.

We covered lots of topics including 'hate crime' and 'protected characteristics'.

We even took our fingerprints!

Thank you PC Johnson!

Today all the children were WOWed by our MADScience Assembly.  The children explored SOUND in a variety of fun and exciting ways. 

Please keep an eye out for a leaflet about the MAD Science after school club in the next few weeks.