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In Year One, we are absolutely loving the adventures Martha takes in Martha Maps It Out. Our extended piece of writing is going to be a story about our own adventure; who might we meet? Where will we go? What will we do? These are all of the questions we will be answering in our…

The children were absolutely amazing during our trip to Knebworth. They should be very proud of themselves, we had a lovely day!

Phonics -

Graphemes - recap of oa, ar, ur, er.

Tricky words - recap of all tricky words.

Some words we have written - oa, park, turn,…

We have had a lovely week playing in the sunshine and enjoying the garden. 
We have played in our next babies area, balanced on the slack line and used the crates and planks of wood to create obstacle courses. 
 

Our pattern line this week was an upside down arch. We decided it looked like a…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 4 

                         20th March 2026

Announcements: The sun shone again on Strathmore this week which was such a lovely change from the cold, wet Winter months that we have had! As the weather continues to improve, we kindly ask that children apply…

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In English, the children wrote a sequence of sentences about either a worry (like Ruby in Ruby’s Worry) or a roar (like Ravi in…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 3 

                         13th March 2026

Announcements: Well, what a lovely week we have had in Year 2! We are so proud of our children involved in the Rock Steady concert this week. It is not easy to stand up in front of a large audience to play and…

A busy week in Reception, we've been working really hard practicing our assembly, please support your child in practising their lines at home!

Phonics -

Grapheme recap - air, ow, ar, oo (moon), ear.

Tricky word recap - all tricky words.

Some words we have written - chair, cow,…

This week we shared the story Dave’s Cave. We talked about the differences between where we live now and where cave people lived. We then used the crates, wooden planks and pieces of fabric to make our own caves. 
 

In the garden we were very excited to use our new slack line. We used our core…

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We had an absolutely amazing World Book Day yesterday! Thank you so much for all of your commitment and support in creating costumes and sending in beautiful books for our whole school book swap. The children completed fantastic pieces of writing based on the story The Black Book of…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 2 

6th March 2026

Announcements: Wow! What a wonderful week we have had celebrating World Book Day together. It was such a joy to see all of the children's fabulous costumes and PJs and to share our favourite books together. Well done, Year 2, you made us…

A sunny week in Reception, where our lovely garden is showing signs of Spring!

Phonics - we have looked at longer words this week with two syllables and introduced words that we can 'chunk' when reading. This means reading the first syllable of the word, then the next, then blending…

This week we have been learning about Dinosaurs. We share some dinosaur stories that we found in the library. We talked about the different dinosaurs and how some were carnivores and some herbivores. 

We used our fine motor skills to cut out triangles to stick on a stegosaurus' back. We made…