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Angora Class have been exploring what life was like when our grandparents were young, including interviewing some visiting grandparents to hear their stories first-hand. In English, we studied The Gruffalo and enjoyed a drama workshop with Ian from KiC Theatre. In Maths, we focused on understanding place value to 10. In Design and Technology, the class learned about stable structures and created their own sturdy pencil pots. As part of our environmental focus, we completed a litter pick around the school to explore how litter affects our environment and ways we can help care for...

The whole school celebrated VE Day together. During the week, Mrs de Roeck held an assembly to teach us all about VE Day: what happened on that day and why we like to remember it. We started with a whole school lunch on the field (fish and chips in a bag) and then played lots of traditional games including marbles, croquet, skipping and capture the flag. We finished the day singing our National Anthem.

Year 2 have been enjoying learning about bees this term, and this week, on official World Bee Day, we were lucky enough to have a bee-keeper here to visit us! She brought some of her equipment to show us, some honey to try, and even brought in an observation hive full of honey bees! We all had a good look inside and tried to spot the queen bee but she was too good at hiding! The children learned so many new facts about bees and are excited to share them with everyone!

The children had plenty of time to explore many of the interactive displays that fill the hallways there. They used a hoover to lift themselves up and generated their own electricity using a hand crank, which powered lights, a train, and a radio. The children were able to conduct different tests involving powerful magnets, as well as many other exciting science experiments. They were then given a tour of two of the domes that house the telescopes. We were lucky enough to see the roof open and rotate to face different sections of the sky—although it did make the room very cold! After lunch,...