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Within our school you will find a happy, welcoming, stimulating environment providing high standards of education, valuing the efforts of the individual, fulfilling the learning potential of all pupils and promoting equal opportunities. We promote learning for life and encourage children to learn no matter where they are, inside or out! We believe in developing the “whole” child and work hard to nurture, encourage, support and extend all of our children to achieve.
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Nursery and Reception have used the story ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker as a stimulus for their World Book Day celebrations. They went for a hunt for the magic doors, a portal into imaginary worlds that stories create. They then used the theme of the story to design their own magnificent flying machines and their own magic doors. The children came up with wonderful ideas about where they might go through their door - the jungle, desert, a treasure island. We talked about how a story can really transport us to amazing places in our imagination! ... See MoreSee Less
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Great book sequel ideas from Class 3. A fantastic World Book Day all round. ... See MoreSee Less
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The children in Class 1 have been taking on lots of different roles this week with our introduction to the theme of transport and amazing journeys. The children have been using their imagination to travel by train to some amazing places. These have included Legoland, the jungle, America, Scotland and even Carlisle! They have enjoyed books about different modes of transport and talked about the different places they would like to visit. ... See MoreSee Less
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How amazing do Class 2 look in their World Book Day tops! I am so amazed by the creativity shown by the children 🎨 We have spent the morning exploring and reading all of our favourite books, from Dog Man to The Lorax to Hairy Maclary 📚 ... See MoreSee Less
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📚✨ World Book Day – Tomorrow! ✨📚
We’re excited to remind all parents that tomorrow is World Book Day!
We can’t wait to see the children coming to school dressed in their book-themed T-shirts, along with non-uniform, as we celebrate a day all about reading and stories.
It’s going to be a fantastic day filled with books, imagination, and a love of reading inspired by World Book Day! 📖🌟 ... See MoreSee Less
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Spring is finally here ☀️🌼🌱 Early Years thoroughly enjoyed their Welly outdoor session today as we began to find the first signs of this wonderful season. We discussed how spring is the season of new life as we see lots of new plants beginning to grow, baby animals start to be born and the sun shines brighter in the sky. Whilst on the field we went on a spring hunt and we made some fabulous spring nature crowns. Don’t we look fantastic? 🐑🌺👑 #whittonstallfirstschool #springvibes ... See MoreSee Less
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Class 2 are starting their new non-fiction unit in English. We are looking at explanation texts and our model text is ‘What do plants need to grow?’. The children went on a fact finding hunt in the yard and then used these facts to design their own plants with some very strange facts! Like a snap dragon that eats donuts and a cactus that sounds like an evil villain laughing when it’s in the wind!🪴🪻 ... See MoreSee Less
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We had an amazing Pancake Day afternoon yesterday 🥞 After an assembly from Reverend Simon, we thought about what we might give up for lent, tried our hand at pancake flipping and then made our own pancakes on the campfire 🔥 ... See MoreSee Less
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What an amazing day our Class 2 children had at Acton Farm🚜🌾
We got hands-on with farm life and helped feed some very special animals – Gingy the pig, Hilda, Conker and Bramble the donkeys, Daisy the cow, and all of the chickens too! The children showed such care and confidence around the animals. 🐷🐴🐄🐔
One of the highlights was having a go in the big tractor – lots of excited faces all round! 🚜 We also became soil scientists for the day, exploring microbes in the soil and learning just how important they are for helping things grow.
The creativity continued as we built large bug hotels using sticks and wool, creating cosy habitats for insects. We then headed off on a mini beast hunt to see what we could find, before taking a closer look at our discoveries under the microscopes. 🔎🪲
It was a fantastic day full of learning, exploring and fun. Well done, Class 2 – you were brilliant farm explorers! 🌟 ... See MoreSee Less
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