​This week saw our British Values day of the term, this time, with a focus on Fairtrade. Our classes had the opportunity to explore what Fairtrade means, understand what the symbol means, where it comes from etc.
Children baked banana bread using only Fairtrade ingredients - it was delicious! Using an atlas, they located countries which produce the Fairtrade products that they used.  
Other groups looked at the journey of the cocoa bean from tree to shop and designed a new Fairtrade chocolate bar wrapper for their favourite chocolate bars.

This Week In School…
Year 3 – have continued to work on creating an advert to persuade people to visit Iceland. In Maths, Year 3 have continued to work on telling the time, they have been focusing on using 12 and 24 hour time and solving real life problems.
Year 4 – have been writing an informal letter in English, focussing on the use of expanded noun phrases and contractions. In Maths, they have been working on tenths and hundredths and the concept that a tenth and a hundredth is part of a whole number.
Year 5 – have been writing a narrative based on the chapter called 'Cyclops' in their current book in English. The children are keen to retell this exciting chapter. In Maths, they have been using RUSAC to solve decimal word problems- this has been growing their brains! 
Year 6 – have been working hard planning and starting to draft newspaper reports about 'Varmints', which is linked to their new book.  They have some great ideas and are looking forward to reading their finished reports.  Year 6 have also been catching up with their Humanities topic of Rivers and have spent some time learning about the important uses of rivers in everyday life.

​As some of you will know, we currently run a successful After School Film Making Club with our KS2 children. The children love it so much that we have decided to ask MN Academy to continue the club for next term.
The Film Making Club will run on Mondays from 3:15- 4:15pm on the following days; Monday 23rd April, Monday 30th April, Monday 14th May, Monday 21st May, Monday 11th June, Monday 18th June, Monday 25th June, Monday 2nd July, Monday 9th July and Monday 16th July .
You must register your interest with MN Academy as soon as possible if your child wishes to join the club.  You can register by emailing [email protected] or calling Natalya on 07749 963 380.
Over the course of 10 weeks, the children will have the opportunity to work both in front and behind the camera. Each session will involve various exercises that serve to highlight different elements of film making, including on screen acting, directing and camera operating. On completion of the term, the children will receive an edited copy of the short film that they created.
Please see attached leaflet for more information and contact [email protected] or 07749 963 380 to register your interest with your child's name, age, any medical conditions and your contact phone number.

Year 5 visited the London Science Museum to explore the incredible Wonderlabs to learn about forces. They even had time to catch a showing of the awe inspiring 'Beautiful Planet' at the IMax.