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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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After School Club Gardening Gang have been experimenting with a new method of planting sunflower seeds. We made a seed snail and are looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Fingers crossed! ... See MoreSee Less
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After School Club Gardening Gang have had fun planting two varieties of potato - cristina and casablanca. We can’t wait to watch them grow and there’s an ongoing discussion about how we’re going to eat them! ... See MoreSee Less
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🌍 Debate, Discuss, Decide: Class 3 Tackles Deforestation! 🌳
It has been a busy and thought-provoking week in Class 3! We’ve been diving deep into the world of balanced arguments, focusing on the complex issue of deforestation.
We kicked off the week with a lively (and very respectful!) classroom debate. I was blown away by the children's ability to:
Express viewpoints with confidence and empathy. 🗣️
Use clear, structured sentences to build their cases. 📝
Consider both sides, from the importance of preserving habitats to the human demand for resources. ⚖️
Seeing them discuss such big global issues, linked with their geography work, while refining their writing skills has made for one very proud teacher! 🌟 ... See MoreSee Less
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🦷 The Big Reveal: Class 3’s "Egg-cellent" Experiment! 🥚
After a week of holding our breath (literally—it got a bit smelly in here!), Class 3 has finally reached the end of our dental health investigation!
We used eggshells to represent our tooth enamel to see which popular drinks cause the most damage. We made some "cracking" discoveries:
The Winner (or Loser!): Surprisingly, fresh orange juice was the worst culprit for weakening the shells! 🍊
The Runner Up: Coca-Cola was a very close second, leaving the shells stained and softened. 🥤
The Lesson: Even "healthy" drinks can be high in acid and sugar, so remember to keep up that brushing! 🪥
The classroom might finally smell fresh again, but the results of our science experiment will definitely stick with us!
Well done, Class 3! 🌟👏 ... See MoreSee Less
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Reception and Nursery have been very creative in their work and play this week.They have created their own still life paintings and used their colour mixing skills brilliantly in their exploring of colour as they painted daffodils. They have learned about cars through the ages and their similarities and difference. They learned about axels, wheels and chassis’s in their design and technology project, making their own vehicles. We can’t wait to test them out next week! ... See MoreSee Less
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Today in our Welly Thursday session EYFS took part in a science experiment exploring friction. We discussed what friction is and how even rubbing our hands together causes friction👏 Before heading out to the field we discussed our experiment and made some predictions. Then our job when out, was to explore how different materials cause friction to a toy car going down the metal slide 🚗🛝 We guessed if they would have low friction making the car quicker or high friction making the car slower. Everyone enjoyed testing out each material first hand 😃 #whittonstallfirstschool #wearescientists ... See MoreSee Less
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🌿🎉 What an amazing afternoon we’ve had celebrating Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday! 🎉🌿
Across our houses, everyone got involved in a range of activities inspired by Sir David’s incredible love for nature and wildlife. We started by making bird feeders to help support the birds in our local environment, thinking about how even small actions can make a big difference for nature. 🐦🌱
We also created our very own “Promises to Nature” Tree, where everyone added a promise about how they will help protect and care for the natural world. It was wonderful to see so many thoughtful ideas and commitments. 🌳💚
The celebrations continued with us designing colourful birthday cards for Sir David and, of course, no birthday is complete without cake – so we baked a special birthday cake to mark the occasion! 🎂🎈
It was a fantastic afternoon full of creativity, teamwork, and appreciation for the natural world. Happy 100th Birthday, Sir David Attenborough – thank you for inspiring generations to care for our planet! 🌍💙 ... See MoreSee Less
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Class 2 have been busy scientists this week! 🔬🌈
We carried out a chromatography experiment to investigate the question: “What colours are hiding in our felt tip pens?”
The children used paper, water and different coloured felt tip pens to see what would happen over time. As the water travelled up the paper, the ink began to separate, revealing lots of hidden colours we didn’t expect! It was very exciting to watch the patterns and colours appear.
During the investigation we used the scientific enquiry skill **observing over time**, carefully watching the changes and talking about what we noticed as the colours spread.
The children made great observations and predictions, and loved discovering that one pen colour can actually be made up of many different colours! Fantastic work, Class 2! 👩🔬👨🔬 ... See MoreSee Less
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