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  • 08/01/25

    Happy New Year 2025!

    Happy New Year!  Wizards This term has begun with a new topic - We are Thinkers. As part of our Geography, the children have started to research various holiday destinations in the UK. They have gathered information about activities, location, where to stay in a range of places, as well a...
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  • 18/12/24

    Happy Christmas!

    This week, the Wizards looked at Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - a pyramid which shows how our basic needs need to be met in order for us to 'Let our Light Shine'. The children had a great discussion, talking about how important being healthy and getting support from family and friends is...
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  • 13/12/24

    Sulgrave, Stitching & Shapes

    This week the Dragons took a time-travelling trip to the Tudor Age at Sulgrave Manor. They learnt about how the Tudors lived; how they dressed, ate, slept, cooked, wrote and danced. The dragons got to dress in Tudor clothes, write their names with Tudor pens in Tudor-styled letters, and learnt dance...
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  • 05/12/24

    Stars, Lights and Layers

    Dragons Class - Dragons this week have been comparing the Tudor and Elizabethan Ages. They have been looking at the food eaten in Tudor times and comparing it with what we eat now. Also, they have created some clay frames and will be painting miniatures in them, in the style of Nicholas Hilliard...
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  • 29/11/24

    The Snowman, Sticks & Street Dance

      This week the Pixies came into a winter wonderland in the classroom as it had snowed! They had magic sand snow to play with and were retelling the story of The Snowman in preparation for the visit to the ballet on Wednesday. They have baked lemon drizzle cake this week. When out and...
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  • 20/11/24

    Snow, Spheros & Soup

    The Shire's plans this week for out and about were curtailed by the snowfall! Instead of bark rubbing, they took a trip to the church where they saw the font, talked about baptism and found a kneeler with a tapestry picture of the school. They looked at the architecture of the church and gravest...
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  • 14/11/24

    Industry and Charity

      Wizards have continued to research the Industrial Revolution this week, focusing on some of the machines which were important in the mechanisation process: these include the Spinning Jenny, the Power Loom and the Watt Steam engine, which helped to power the various machines in the factorie...
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  • 07/11/24

    Bonfires & Royalty

    In the Shire, the Pixies came back from half term to a bonfire night cafe stall, where they had great fun ordering from the menu and working out costings. They also studied Diwali and looked at pattern making by making their own mehendi designs on hand outlines and rangoli designs. The El...
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  • 23/10/24

    The Shire in Beatrix Potter's world

    Our first half term in The Shire has finished and what an amazing time we’ve had!
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  • 23/10/24

    Wizards on the storytellers

    This term our topic has been ‘We are Storytellers’. On the first week of term, we learned all about why the Romans left Britain in 410AD because their troops were needed in Rome. Next came the Picts who settled in the North of Scotland.  They wore tunics and had capes held together...
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  • 21/10/24

    Dragons on The Vikings

    “The Vikings are brilliant! The longboats were awesome” “The Vikings were fierce, vicious and merciless” “I love Loki – he’s the god of mischief and so mean” “The Vikings ate a lot of meat, but they ate fruit and vegetables as well...
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  • 16/10/24

    Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Victorians

    Wizards: This week the wizards have been on a fantastic trip to Oxford to explore primary sources of evidence in connection with their Anglo-Saxon history studies. They attended workshops at the Museum of Oxford looking at Anglo-Saxon artefacts found in Oxford. They visited the Ashmolean muse...
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