Team Deerleap have been sharing a passion for reading by presenting book recommendations to their peers over the Autumn Term. Children have highlighted their favourite genre, authors, characters, plot and even favourite sentence and given the books a star rating. Reading really is a passport to...

We have a super team of chefs in the making in Year R. After sharing the book Dumpling Day by Meera Sriram as part of our Around the World theme, the children learnt how to make bourekas which are a tasty dish served in Israel. They were super at reading the recipe and following the instructions as...

During Art club, we looked at the French artist Henri Matisse.  Later in his life, Henri was very unwell and he found he couldn't paint anymore, so he began creating cut paper collages or decoupage.  We focussed in on the cut out: Polnesia, The sea.  We used this as inspiration...

Today marks the first day of the Key Stage One nativity. The children are doing an amazing job. It is clear they have been working extremely hard on their singing and on learning their lines. This year's performance is set to be a real treat with marching soldiers, angels, farmyard animals and e...

Team UJs recently participated in a formal debate, discussing whether or not a wind farm should be built in Christchurch Bay. Despite the fact they agreed it was a sustainable energy source, ultimately the children felt passionately about the implementation of controls around the blades, which can n...

Everybody in Mrs Nicholson's Art Club entered the Sir Harold Hillier Arboretum and Gardens 'Hillier's Light Up Trail' Competition, in which the children had to design a festive bauble. We received a lovely letter from Hillier Gardens informing us about how brilliant they thought a...