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Rewards 10th May 2024

This week’s merit certifiates have been awarded to… Year 1: Melvin Alabi, you are trying so hard to build friendships and it is so lovely to see you ejoying your play-keep it up and well done! Jafar Zamel, you have been so inquisitive during English lessons and have asked amazing questions-well done! Year 2: Deacon Templeton, you have been trying really hard to independently

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Year 4 and the water cycle…

As part of our states of matter topic we have been looking at the water cycle. We made our very own so we can see it in action too!


Year 4 science:finding the melting point…

Year 4 are looking at states of matter. We looked at a thermometer and investigated the temperature of different objects and areas in the classroom. We then looked at chocolate, ice cream, butter and a jelly sweet and used what we’d learned to predict which would melt first. We made tin foil boats for our substances and Mrs Smith added 300ml of hot water

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Rewards 3rd May 2024

This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Mia Reid, your work on sorting animals into groups was amazing-well done! Isaac Watson, you are trying really hard to improve your letter formation-well done! Year 2: Holden Wilson, you produced a great leaflet telling everyone about the internet and web searches-well done! Ivy Love, you had fantastic rhythmn when playing the glockenspiels in

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Rewards 26th April 2024

This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Halle Davies, you have tried so hard to improve your letter formation-well done! Kaiden Johnson, you have been trying hard to follow instructions and join in with lessons-well done! Year 2: Nyah Wright, we loved reading your diary entry of your favourite day-it was amazing! Denni-Joe Rochester, you have been trying your best to

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Year 4 fractions in maths

We started our fractions work looking at how the denominator may be a larger number but the fraction is actually smaller because it has been cut into more equal parts. What better way to actually see this than with cake! Then we got to eat it after doing our work!


Year 4 making themselves particles in solids, liquids and gases…

Solids, liquids and gases can be really hard to understand but year 4 smashed it when we acted as particles! In a solid we were tightly packed. In a liquid we were close but not as close as a solid. When we were a gas we weren’t close together at all but could spread out and fill the room-we certainly inderstand how the particles

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Year 4 having a balanced argument…

Miss Thexton came to Mrs Smith’s literacy group so we could persuade her to give KS2 an afternoon break like they have in KS1. This was a lovely hook into our discussion topic writing and the children were so amazing that we earned a one off break!


Rewards 19th April 2024

This week’s merit cetificates have been awarded to… Year 1:Ollie Miller, you have had a super week and yourbehaviour choices have been wonderful-keep it up! Noah Petchey, you have had a wonderful first week here at Southwick School-well done! Year 2: Aliyah Dempster, you have tried to become more independent when writing-keep it up! Well done, Aliyah! Oluwatimilehin Ogunleye, your contributions to our length

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Rewards 28th March 2024

This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Jafar Zamel, you have been showing a real inerest in toys from the past-well done! Ebony Green, you have had an amazing week and are a star! Year 2: Darci Lee, you scored 100% on your maths assessment-well done for all of your hard work and determination-well done! Taylor Lusby, your knowledge and enthusiasm

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