Some of our Year 5 and 6 children took part in a Kwik Cricket tournament this week with 5 other schools from the cluster. They played three games and did brilliantly winning one game and losing another by just one run. All our sporting teams play together with tremendous spirit and resilience.Read More
The children had a wonderful afternoon with members of the Royal Canadian Airforce in school, who talked to them about the local Second World War base, Eastmoor, and the Canadian airmen that were stationed there, on the 75th anniversary of the air base. The children were fascinated to hear about the work of the RCAF and...Read More
This has to be one of the favourite Sutton on the Forest Traditions-the Eggtravaganza: Egg Decorating; Egg Jarping; Egg Rolling and Egg Throwing. Well done to all our Easter Egg Winners and a big thank-you to those children who won two eggs but very kindly gave their winnings to the runner up- there was a...Read More
As part of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance the upper juniors became fossil hunters for the afternoon. Using very delicate tools (toothpicks!) they had to extract as many fossils from the rocks as possible ( the rocks were biscuits and the fossils were chocolate chips). They then had to use gummy snakes and layers...Read More
In their Science Topic on Evolution and Inheritance the Y5/6 children have been studying the work of Charles Darwin.Part of Darwin’s voyage included a visit to the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, close to South America. Islands form a very important piece of evidence in Darwin’s theory, because they isolate populations from each other....Read More
Shrove Tuesday brought a pancake-themed morning for our Year 4 children. The day started off with a pancake maths challenge. Could they convert a recipe to make 6 pancakes into a recipe to make pancakes for 14? After managing to solve that problem, the children then went on to put the recipe into practice and...Read More
Year 4 spent some time in the forest this week as part of our Forest Schools work. We all had a fantastic morning exploring the forest, learning how to tie knots and working in teams to design and build our own forest shelters. The shelters were a great place to shelter from the wet weather to...Read More
Hamilton actors teach Belfast children confidence and to speak up for what they believe in.
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