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We were delighted to take delivery of a special friendship bench recently. The bench, which has been kindly donated to school by McCarthy and Stone, will be used at break times together with our existing star bench for children to use to seek a friend or help from adults during break times. Some of our Anti Bullying Ambassadors have been trying it out for size as you can see in the...

In Science, Pearl Class have discovered that pushes and pulls are forces. The children followed instructions to create a vehicle with a trailer that could pull a heavy load. They created an algorithm (a line of code), tested it to see if their program could make the vehicle move and then debugged to improve their algorithm. Finally, they challenged each other to a tug of war to see which vehicle...

On Monday, children in Amber Class travelled back to the time of the Ancient Egyptians! Dr Ian Morrison visited the school and children experienced a snap shot of the past including handling artefacts over 2700 years old, taking part in a mummification ritual and even taking part in their own 'chariot...