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Rewards 15th March 2024

This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Oliver Spurs, you have made a great start to your own version of The Selfish Crocodile-well done! Melvin Alabi, you have had a great first week at Southwick and we are so lucky to have you! Year 2: Everyone in Year 2! You made our trip to the Wetlands so fabulous and your listening

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Year 4 class quilt!

It has taken us weeks, we have learned lots of skills and look at our finished products! Aren’t they amazing? We are so proud of our work and can’t wait to take them home!


Year 4 investigated Martian soil for Space Week!

Year 4 were given samples of soil from Mars to investigate if Mars had ever sustained life. We inspected each sample closely before making a prediction as to which sample could contain life. We recapped the 7 life processes too. We gave the soils water, then food and then water and food together-we were shocked at our findings and are oing to let NASA

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Lola’s wonderful art work!

Lola Smith sketched and painted her nana this wonderful giraffe for her birthday. She worked on it at home for 3 days and 6 hours and has blown us all away with her wonderful art skills-well done Lola!


Year 4 World Book Day 2024

We had an amazing time today and all got into the spirit of dressing as our very favourite book characters. We read lots of stories and created our own characters and settings too-we had a great day!


Rewards 8th March 2024

This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: All of Year 1, your attitude and behaviour was brilliant during our visit to Monkwearmouth Academy-you were all amazing-well done! Year 2: Harry Redwin, you have been working so hard to improve your writing-well done! Zoe Oghenovo, you used past and present tense beautifully to write your postcard-well done! Isabella Gascoigne, your rendition of

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Year 4 fairy stories workshop with Michael Rosen…

The British Library hosted fairy stories with Michael Rosen, Jasbinder Bilan and Allen Fatimaharan and year 4 took part to start off World Book Week. We listened to a Punjabi taditional tale and did a draw along of the main character (The Snake Prince) and we listened to Michael’s retell of Golilocks and The Three Bears, Glodilocks and The Three Crocodiles-in this version Goldilock had

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Class 6’s New Reading Corner

Class 6 decided they needed a new reading corner so we linked it to our theme of space and it is out of this world! The children love it!


Rewards 1st March 2024

This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Peculiar Oloko, your reading in our Little Wandle sessions was amazing-keep it up! Well done, Peculiar! Rio Foot, your enthusiasm and hard work in phonics is amazing-well done! Year 2: Blake Anderson, you have tried so hard to improve the presentation of your work-well done! Effy Richardson, you wrote an amazing descriptive piece on

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Conjecturing problem solving day – Spring 1

At the end of Spring 1, the whole school took part in a maths problem solving day focusing on the problem solving strand of conjecturing. Each maths group worked with a different conjecture and used their maths skills and knowledge to investigate it. Take a look at the ‘Celebrating Maths’ page of the website to find out what each year group got up to.

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