Owls have been transformed into a vibrant samba band for Arts Week! Inspired by the energy and colour of the Rio Carnival, they've been working incredibly hard to learn new instruments, layer rhythms, and follow a leader all while having lots of fun along the way. They can't wait to share their fantastic learning with families tomorrow at our Arts Week Carnival celebration.

Part 2 – Paint, Pattern, Party! The creativity continued as Year 3 brought their carnival costume designs to life with paint! Using colourful backgrounds and detailed acrylic patterns, the children experimented with colour and and shape to create eye-catching carnival costume materials

Year 5 have had a fantastic start into the summer term! In English, we've been diving into the magical world of fairy tales, while in maths we've been building our confidence by converting fractions into decimals. Everyone worked incredibly hard and focused throughout the whole week. Our highlight so far has definitely been our amazing Arts Week. We explored the beautiful technique of batik, beginning by developing our ideas in our sketchbooks. We then practised transferring our designs onto fabric using wax, before bringing everything together to create our final house banners. It was a creative, hands-on experience and so much fun. We are really proud of what we achieved! We are now looking forward to welcoming parents tomorrow to present our final designs.

Part 1 – Carnival Costume Design Dreams Begin! Our Year 3 artists kicked off Art Week by becoming designers! They explored carnival themes and created vibrant sketchbook pages full of bold ideas, patterns, and costume concepts. A fantastic start full of imagination and creativity!

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Our final fabulous five of the term: thank you for all your support. We wish all a fun holiday filled with lots of play.

Here is another maths game to try with your children at home! Thank you to our hosts who have explained it beautifully for you.

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Here are last week's totals for the house point competition. Broughton are leading but only just! Final totals will be added up on Thursday with the winning house being announced on Friday. Reward of 'bring your own toy' afternoon will be arranged for the first week back after the Easter holiday. Good luck!

Another great week of play captured by the OPAL team at St Mary's . The sun was very much appreciated.

MATHS GAME ALERT! Watch two of our children teach you a times table game you can play at home! Let us know how you get on and tag any pictures of you playing! BBO Maths Hub NCETM

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CoJo's mission time! The Year 2s took on their CoJo's challenge and rose to the occasion yesterday. They were tasked to build their own temporary shelters to survive a storm in the jungle! There was great teamwork, creativity and problem-solving on show. Well done Nuthatches!

Fledglings enjoyed forest school this afternoon, digging, exploring mini-beasts and their homes and discovering new insects using the information books The children demonstrated fantastic teamwork, endurance and compassion!

"Don't let doubt get in the way of your goals," says Kira Salak, our inspirational adventure role model. On Friday, the Year 4 Robins took part in their Commando Joe's mission to retrieve some very important photographs from gorilla poachers. It was exciting to watch the activists working hard to escape the poachers while trying to recover the hidden photographs. In the end, the activists succeeded through teamwork. As the saying goes, teamwork really does make the dream work.