Miscellaneous - Summer Term 1 2025 27th May 2025
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Look at how much fun we have had during Summer Term 1! The children have learnt new skills and knowledge. We are so proud of all they have achieved and the progress they have made. They are all superstars!

Stones 27th May 2025
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As part of the 60th Anniversary of St Jude's Catholic Primary School, all the children in the school and pre-school decorated a stone with a nature theme. The children really enjoyed this activity. All the stones were placed in the sensory garden in the school grounds.

Growing 27th May 2025
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The children have enjoyed learning about the parts of a plant. They learned songs about plant growth and the needs of a plant. The children made beanstalks after listening to the 'Jack and the Beanstalk' story using pasta, leaves, beads and pipe cleaners. They decorated a plant pot each, chose a seed to plant and watered it. The children had lovely snacks to eat such as snack in the shape of flowers and food from 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' story. Some of the children helped to build our new greenhouse. The children will take their plants home as they grow!

Minibeasts 27th May 2025
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The children have been learning about minibeasts this term. They made butterflies, spiders, caterpillars, biscuits and bees using a range of media including paint, collage, 3D modelling and playdough.

Rabbits 27th May 2025
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Mr Heiford, from Year R, brought his rabbits into pre-school to show the children. The children really enjoyed this experience.

Outdoor Learning 27th May 2025
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The children have spent an increasing amount of time outdoors this term. They have enjoyed exploring in the sensory garden, playing on the climbing equipment, running on the school fields and playing in the pre-school playground.

Water Play 27th May 2025
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As the weather has improved, the children have taken part in more water play activities. They have played in the water tray, used squirters, painted the wall with paintbrushes and rollers and used reusable water bombs. Lots of fun was had!

Sand 27th May 2025
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The children had lots of fun playing and learning in the sand. They used mathematical language and explored a wide range of concepts.

Learning Together 27th May 2025
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The children have enjoyed playing and learning together this term.

Year 4 Residential 21st May 2025
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Much fun was had as Year 4 children spent a day and a night living like a Viking! Indoor activities included making butter and cheese, grinding flour and chopping vegetables. The outdoor group were mining chalk and making bricks and sawing and splinting wood for the fire. Some children proved it be experts in the evening Viking games!

Fishbourne Roman Palace 20th May 2025
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What a gorgeous day for exploring life as a Roman in Britain and the amazing mosaics and Fishbourne.

Roman Shields 19th May 2025
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In Art we have designed and made Roman shields which has included a mosaic design!

Longleat 19th May 2025
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What an amazing day we had at Longleat learning about habitats and particularly about tigers!

Naan Bread 9th May 2025
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Year 2 began their India topic by trying different flavoured naan breads and discussion our enquiry question- Thalassery in India is nothing like Fareham in England.

VE celebrations 9th May 2025
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Reception and KS1 came together to commemorate 80 years since victory in Europe.

Science 7th May 2025
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Investigating forces in action. Do these pictures show a push force, a pull force or both?

Hundred Acre Wood 30th Apr 2025
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We experienced a woodland biome and whilst walking through the woodland, we looked/listened to the wildlife. We also sketched some trees and created some 3D artwork.

Art Workshop with the Inspiration Federation 30th Apr 2025
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We learned about the woodland biome and used this as the theme for our artwork.

Water Resistance Experiment 30th Apr 2025
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We investigated whether the shape of an object has an impact on its landing in water.

Air Resistance Experiment 30th Apr 2025
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We made parachutes to investigate whether the size of a parachute would effect the time it took to land.

Greek Mythological Art 30th Apr 2025
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We created some Mythological artwork inspired by the artist, Victoria Topping.

STEM Challenge 30th Apr 2025
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The theme for STEM week was 'adapt and change'. We were set the challenge of making musical instruments and to experiment with creating different pitches. We experimented the thickness of wood, the number of elastic bands and the type of paper between the wooden sticks.

Southampton Art Gallery 30th Apr 2025
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To celebrate the end of our Ancient Greece topic, Year 5 visited Southampton Art Gallery. The children took part in two hands-on workshops, where they will developed key skills and techniques using clay to sculpt a Medusa head, as well as developing their sketching skills. As well as this, the children learned about the story of Perseus through the series of paintings.

DT Skillbuilding 30th Apr 2025
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In preparation for making our fairground rides, we experimented with ways in which to build structures and strengthen them using different materials and techniques.

World Book Day 30th Apr 2025
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To celebrate World Book Day, we came to school dressed in our pyjamas and enjoyed hot chocolate and biscuits, whilst taking part in a World Book Day quiz and a quiz based on our year 5 novels.

Hill Head Beach Trip 30th Apr 2025
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As part of the Earth, Art and Music Project, Year 1 visited Hill Head Beach to create art in the natural environment using resources provided by the beach. We enjoyed stone stacking, stone mandalas, shell collecting, and a whole class big picture of an octopus! Please enjoy the lovely art created by our talented artists.

Lent Prayer spaces 28th Apr 2025
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We transformed our prayer spaces to reflect our Lenten journey.

Big Lent Walk 2025 28th Apr 2025
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We walked to Sacred Heart Church for Stations of the Cross

I am a Roman soldier 28th Apr 2025
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We performed verses from the poem by Josiah Wedgewood

Titanic Lifeboats 8th Apr 2025
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Year 2 tested which material would be best to make our lifeboats from. Once made we tried our lifeboats to see how many could our lifeboats save from the Titanic- Isla's boat saved the most with 29 survivors!

Lent Reconciliation 8th Apr 2025
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Year 2 spent some time reflecting on saying sorry and receiving God's forgiveness.

Miscellaneous - Spring Term 2 2025 7th Apr 2025
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Look at all the fun we have had during Spring Term 2 2025! The children enjoyed a wide range of activities including sorting resources according to colour, eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and having a lovely snack made by Mrs Holland using our nursery rhyme focus of the week - Hickory DIckory Dock. The children had crackers and cheese which was turned into a mouse!

Easter 7th Apr 2025
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During our Easter celebrations, the children took part in an Easter Egg Hunt, took part in an Easter Egg competition and played games using the Easter resources. They developed their sorting, matching, subitising and counting skills. In the last week of the spring term, the children made and enjoyed some Easter biscuits.

Mother's Day 7th Apr 2025
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The children enjoyed making gifts and cards as part of our Mother's Day celebrations.

World Book Day Celebrations 7th Apr 2025
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The staff and children came to pre-school dressed in their pyjamas during our World Book Day celebrations. The children brought in their favourite books and we had hot chocolate and biscuits.

Exploring outside - Discovery Time 7th Apr 2025
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The children have explored the school grounds using the climbing frames, wild area and school fields. They had lots of lovely welly walks during the first half of the term and then enjoyed the sunshine towards the end of Spring Term 2. We have bought new outdoor resources with the fundraising money from Nursery Rhyme Week and other funding we received and had lots of fun playing in the pre-school playground. The resources include bikes, scooter boards, hula hoops, balance boards, seesaw and water tray. The children have been developing their throwing and catching skills and have been putting coats/shoes/wellies on and taking them off independently. We are looking forward to more sunshine and fun in the summer term!

Imagination! 7th Apr 2025
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The pre-school children have a wonderful imagination. This can be seen in their independent play. They played with small world resources such as dinosaurs and a farm whilst using wooden blocks, natural resources, boxes etc. to help them to create a narrative in their play. Some of the children pretended that they were in the emergency services and helped to save and look after others. They also played vets and hairdressers whilst using the home role play area as a base. One of our focus books was 'The Three Little Pigs.' The children made a house out of cardboard and real materials and acted out the story saying the repeated refrains. One of our focus rhymes was 'Incy Wincy Spider.' The children used their imagination to make their own spiders using playdough, pipe cleaners and collage materials whilst saying the rhyme. On Shrove Tuesday, the children used the playdough to make their own pancakes, tossing them in the pan and adding toppings from craft resources.

Artists! 7th Apr 2025
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We have some fantastic artists in pre-school! Through taking part in many mark making activities and general activities used to develop both gross and fine motor skills, the children are developing great pencil control. Many can draw recognisable pictures. The children enjoy 'Scribble Club' which is designed to promote communication skills and develop the children's imagination through mark making. One of our focus books was 'Freddie and the Fairy'. The children made wands and turned each other and their teachers into a range of animals including frogs! They did fantastic paintings, coloured pictures, traced patterns to make pictures and made 3D models with recycled materials. Another of our focus books was 'The Three Little Pigs'. The children made their own houses out of actual straw, sticks and bricks. They also used materials in the craft area to make houses to take home.

Ancient Egypt Exhibition 4th Apr 2025
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The children invited their families in to share their learning and celebrate their achievements.

Plants 3rd Apr 2025
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We are at the beginning of our plant topic and spent some times closely observing bean/seed and the root networks of plants. We then started our Spring garden!

Earth, Art and Music Project. 2nd Apr 2025
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This half term, Year 1 have had the fantastic opportunity to work with Artworx on the Earth, Art and Music Project. In an increasingly digital world dominated by screens and technology, the Earth, Art and Music Project has inspired children to get out into nature, learning new visual art skills, ‘natural art’ and music. It has taught children about the importance of recycling and looking after the environment, and used this learning to create artwork from natural materials gathered from the environment and also recycled materials that would have otherwise been discarded.

Earth, Art and Music Project. 2nd Apr 2025
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This half term, Year 1 have had the fantastic opportunity to work with Artworx on the Earth, Art and Music Project. In an increasingly digital world dominated by screens and technology, the Earth, Art and Music Project has inspired children to get out into nature, learning new visual art skills, ‘natural art’ and music. It has taught children about the importance of recycling and looking after the environment, and used this learning to create artwork from natural materials gathered from the environment and also recycled materials that would have otherwise been discarded.

STEM week 1st Apr 2025
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Creating music from bottles!

World Book Day 1st Apr 2025
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Hot chocolate, biscuit and a good book!

Science - Electricity 26th Mar 2025
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The children experimented with wires and components to build a working circuit.

First Class Cabins on the RMS Titanic 24th Mar 2025
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Year 2 took their parents through a tour of their first class cabins with their own printed carpets and wall paper.

Titanic Museum 24th Mar 2025
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Year 2 had a wonderful time learning new facts and seeing artefacts from our local museum in Southampton

Living like the Darling Family 12th Mar 2025
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As part of our historical enquiry into the life of Grace Darling, we lived like the Darling Family for the day. The girls spent the afternoon baking for everyone and cleaning the lighthouse. The boys travelled far and wide for food and water, as well as cleaning the boat! The children experienced key differences between their lives today and the lives of Victorian Children.

Instructions 12th Mar 2025
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During Spring 1, the children have been focusing on the book 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'. They wrote informative and detailed instructions, for Mrs Grinling, about how to make a great sandwich. We sampled our creations - of course - and sent our instructions to the little, white cottage on the cliffs.