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This week, Year 6 have completed many studies and investigated different aspects of light. Today we solved the problem of where we would need to place umbrellas to get the most amount of shade during the day, we have demonstrated how we see things in the mirror and we have explored which materials…

Year 6 have been busy creating functioning water mills this week for their Design Technology. We were able to use kinetic energy from the water to cause a paddle wheel to rotate. We planned and made our products and then spent some time explaining how they work to our reading partners.

The new school council for Years 3-6 met in November. This year, for the first time,  two members of Bridge Bees (our before and after-school club) have joined the school council which aims to be the voice of the children across the school.

Below are the notes from the first meeting. We will be…

Early this morning thirty excited children - who regularly use the Walking Bus - were treated to hot chocolate and pastries courtesy of our bus sponsors, Charles Bainbridge. Following that, they all received a lucky dip present as a thank you for using the Walking Bus. These children turn up every…

This week Year 5 have been writing explanation texts about bubble-net feeding. All the children have worked extremely hard: identifying the features of an explanation text; designing the layout; draft-writing their own information and then producing some amazing explanation texts which are…

The Eco team would like to thank everyone who has been bringing empty crisp packets into school. Over the last term we have managed to send off 13kg of empty wrappers! As a school we entered a competition which was sponsored by Tesco, we were really excited to find we came 2nd and received a…

Over the last few weeks we have been developing our understanding of place value.

The children have been using the phrase “Build it, draw it, write it,” to structure their learning.

Today Year 4 had a great time making bread as part of our Science. A few weeks ago we investigated how yeast makes bread rise by putting sugar, yeast and hot water into a lemonade bottle. We put a balloon over the top and watched it blow up with carbon dioxide! It was amazing to see. We then…

We always welcome news on our children's achievements outside of school and I was really pleased to her about Rosie's weekend.

On Saturday, after five weeks of preparation, Rosie took part in the 'Santas on the Bay' 3K fun run. This took place in Herne Bay and you can see the route she ran…

I just had to share these photographs with you! 

I walked through the library yesterday lunchtime  to find Year 6 snuggled down enjoying their library space and it wasn’t even raining outside. It was a pleasure to see them reading for the sheer enjoyment of it. Reading non - fiction, picture…

Hannah Chapman (Y6) and Holly Pattison (Y5) have attended the Kent Cricket trials recently and have both achieved places in the Kent squad. This is a massive achievement and we wish them many congratulations; we are very proud of them.

It is also worth mentioning that Kaya Clarke ( a past…

 On Friday year 4 had some visitors from Pfizers. We learnt about microbes and how to wash our hands properly. First we had some special liquid to rub on to our hands to represent microbes. Next we washed our hands and then using a special ultra violet light, we could see where the fake microbes…