We are proud to have celebrated World Downs Syndrome Day today by wearing odd socks.

Our Eco Committee had a lovely time at the Spring Garden Open Day at Blundell’s. They completed a senses game, which they found rather challenging! They made biodegradable plant pots and planted seed in them, which we will be looking after and planting in the summer term!

Year 3 & 4 had a great morning at THS taking part in a mixed football tournament.  Team A reached the final and were the runners up, while Team B narrowly missed out on the final and achieved third place. ‘Player of the Match’ for Team A was Flynn for being a great team player, while ‘Player of the Match’ for Team B was the WHOLE TEAM for showing fantastic teamwork, great communication and superb sportsmanship – Mrs Warren was very proud of them all!

Special mention goes to Matthew and Flynn for great team management and to Travis and Grace R for superb football skills.

Well done everyone!

Today, we had a special visitor from Sciencedipity to celebrate Science Week. She made explosions, elephant toothpaste, changed the colour of water and Mrs Sullivan even set fire to her hands! We all really enjoyed the show and are excited to explore more science this week in our lessons.

We had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day at HPS. We had staff and children alike who embraced the characters through the day – from Harry Potter, to Where’s Wally, Mary Poppins and The Midnight Gang…and everyone in between!!!

The children loved sharing their favourite authors and books with us and they were so excited to be able to take home a brand new book (especially written for World Book Day 2024).

Thank you to all our wonderful parents who supported us in creating costumes and promoted the  love of reading.

In PE,  Year 3 & 4 have been working on counter-balances, supporting each other to create different shapes and balances.

The children  have worked well with different partners and enjoyed creating these different balances.

Nursery have been having a lovely time learning the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We have acted the story out in role play and used puppets to retell it. As well as that we had a go at making porridge. It was interesting to see how the porridge is made with oats and milk and cooked on the stove. We then all enjoyed eating it just like the three bears.

This half term, Year 3/4 have been studying painting. We have practised colour mixing and the ‘wet-on-wet’ technique. We also learnt how to use a viewfinder to sketch landscapes and then used still-life to sketch, colour- wash and add pen detail to our paintings.

In PHSE year 3/4 have been learning about hopes and dreams. We have been working in teams to create funny potatoes. We had to use all of our TRAIN values to create our models, overcome  disappointed when some of ideas were not included.

These are the contestants in the funniest potato competition.