Apr 16 2021
A day in Year 6 Part 1 In Year 6, our day is packed with loads of learning! When children first come in, they wash their hands and settle down working on a series of fluency questions ready on the board. The children do this while registration happens. This is why is so important to …
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Apr 16 2021
Beech Class On Monday, Beech class returned to school after a tumultuous spring term and (hopefully) a chocolate-filled break from the anxieties of home learning. We were amazed and delighted at how ready to learn the children are, and how keen they are to get back to their usual routines. And we’re so proud of …
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Congratulations to all of our Stars of the week! Sunflower Class Lilya is our star for making new friends and being kind and caring to her friends. Alexandru is our star of the week for making good choices at school and following instructions during learning. Arthur is star of the week for settling in well …
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Apr 15 2021
What is PSHCE? Personal Social Health Citizenship Education At Central Primary School, we use the Jigsaw scheme as a starting point for PSHCE lessons and adapt this for our individual classes. Each year, the children revisit the same themes (as shown below) in more depth and with more content as the learning progresses. Welcome Week …
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Apr 15 2021
This week we have been reading the story Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy. Children were encouraged to anticipate events and talk about what they see on the pages of the book. We became reading detectives and asked some comprehension questions like: Where do you think the dogs are going? Who jumps over a chain to …
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Apr 14
This summer term we will bring new content to our popular school blog by announcing two new blog series. The first one will be a year group blog series which will give you insights to the learning in one year group at a time. This weekly blog will capture the activities and learning in the …
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Mar 26 2021
This term, Year 5 have been designing their own automaton toys using cams, based upon original Victorian toys. This week we finally got to bring our designs to life!! We learnt to use saws, drills and explored our full range of problem-solving skills to ensure our toys worked correctly and showed a full range …
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Mar 26 2021
Supporting your child with writing at home can seem daunting. Not quite sure what to focus on, not quite sure what to expect? As a school we have always encouraged parents and carers to read with their children at home. Last blog post about that can be found from here. But now we’ve come across …
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Mar 26 2021
Congratulations to all of our Stars of the week! Sunflower Class Our first star of the week is Leah! Leah has shown a great improvement in her confidence in terms of talking to teachers and her peers. She talks to adult in the class and join in play with her friends during skills time. Also, …
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Mar 26 2021
Year 6 has had an incredible week of exciting learning in their last week. We have done group investigations in Maths, pretended we were tough barbarians in History, dissected flowers in Science and created beautiful acrostic poem for English.
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Mar 22 2021
We have had a really busy and fun week in Reception learning all about Beegu. We spoke about Beegu’s feelings when she looks sad and alone and how we could help her. The children spoke about the ‘helping tree’ we made last week and we linked it to people we could go to if …
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Congratulations to all of our Stars of the week! Sunflower Class Ivy is star of the week for being so amazing in her very first week at Central Primary. She has settled in the classroom routine so quickly and made some friends too. Well done, Ivy! Alexander is star of the week for overcoming his …
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