Year 1; Certificates: Friday 12th June 2026

 

Well done to all the children that have received certificates this week!

Walnut

E for Excellence: Daniel

Star Writer:Layla

Resilience: Eden

Beech

E for Excellence: Remy

Star Writer: Lara

Apricot

E for Excellence: Emem

Star Writer:Ade

Resourcefulness:Charlotte

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Resilience - These children have demonstrated perseverance, managed distractions, noticed patterns and been absorbed in their tasks.

 

Reciprocity - These children have shown interdependence, collaborated effectively, listened to others, displayed empathy and have imitated effective ideas and methods from others. 

Reflectiveness - These pupils have planned carefully, revised ideas, identified key features and can talk about their learning. 

Resourcefulness - These pupils have been curious about their learning, made links between ideas, shown imagination, reasoned methodically and capitalised on resources. 

Year 1: What We Are Learning!

Year 1: What We Are Learning 

This week in Literacy, the children enthusiastically began exploring a new story about a very small but adventurous snail. They developed their comprehension skills by answering retrieval and inference questions, discussing where the snail lives, what she dreams of seeing, and how she feels as she gazes out at the vast sea. Using a "Role on the Wall" activity, the children explored the snail’s appearance and personality, describing her as not only tiny but also curious, brave, and adventurous. They then used these ideas to inspire their own descriptive writing, supported by phonics lessons focusing on the ‘ai’ sound in words such as snail and trail, and the ‘y’ suffix in words like silvery, tiny, and swirly. We were incredibly proud of all our writers, who challenged themselves to write simple descriptive sentences, listen carefully for sounds in words, and share their wonderful vocabulary and ideas with confidence.

 

This week in RE, the children have been learning about Muslim beliefs and Allah. We discussed how Muslims believe in Allah and explored the idea that not everything that exists can be seen.

To help us understand this, we used a balloon as an example. The children could not see the air inside the balloon, but they could see the effect it had by making the balloon expand. We talked about how, in a similar way, Muslims believe that although Allah cannot be seen, He is always present.

After learning that Allah is important to Muslims, the children enjoyed sharing the people who are important to them and the reasons why. 

In our science lesson, the children learned about day and night and how the length of daylight changes during the summer. They created a Day and Night Paper Plate Craft by drawing a daytime scene on one half of a paper plate and a nighttime scene on the other. The children added a rotating arrow to show whether it was day or night. To deepen their understanding, the children took part in a practical demonstration. One child held a torch to represent the Sun, while another child acted as the Earth and slowly turned around. They observed that when their face was towards the Sun it was daytime  and when their back was towards the Sun it was nighttime. This helped the children understand that the Earth rotates and that the Sun shines on different parts of the world at different times creating day and night.

Well done Year 1 for an amazing week - keep up all your brilliant work! 

Year 2 Certificates - 12.6.26

 

Well done to all the children that have received certificates this week!

Mulberry 

 E for Excellence: Ellie

Star Writer: Noah

Reflectiveness: Riya

Resourcefulness: Arya

Resilience: Gracie

Reciprocity: Devansh

Pine

E for Excellence: Mason M

Star Writer: Chalva

Reflectiveness: Karen

Resourcefulness: Chalva

Resilience: Almir

Reciprocity: Emir

Teacher Happy: Keon

Rowan

E for Excellence: Emir 

Star Writer: Oceann

Reflectiveness: Zenaya and Vedasri

Resilience: Yoyo

Reciprocity:Medhansh

Teacher Happy: Andrei 

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Resilience - These children have demonstrated perseverance, managed distractions, noticed patterns and been absorbed in their tasks.

 

Reciprocity - These children have shown interdependence, collaborated effectively, listened to others, displayed empathy and have imitated effective ideas and methods from others. 

Reflectiveness - These pupils have planned carefully, revised ideas, identified key features and can talk about their learning. 

Resourcefulness - These pupils have been curious about their learning, made links between ideas, shown imagination, reasoned methodically and capitalised on resources. 

Walnut Class Forest School 12/06/26

This week was art week. I began by reading a book called 'I Can See Nature's Rainbow', which explores the colours of the rainbow and where they can be found in nature. The children enjoyed sharing their own ideas, including purple lavender, the yellow sun, and brown mud.

The children then created their own nature-inspired artwork through natural mark-making with chalk and charcoal, sticky art using collected natural materials, and a collaborative ground-art mandala.

One finished, we displayed their creations in our Forest School Gallery around an oak tree, celebrating the wonderful creativity on show.

To end the session, the children enjoyed playing the requested chasing game, 'Foxes and Rabbits'.

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Year 2 Sing Their Hearts Out

 Year 2 Sing Their Hearts Out 

On Friday, our Year 2 children had the exciting opportunity to take part in the Havering Music Festival at Hilldene Primary School.

We were joined by several other local schools for a wonderful celebration of music and singing. Each school performed its own individual song, and our children proudly sang Count on Me by Bruno Mars. They sang with enthusiasm, confidence and great reciprocity, making us all very proud.

As well as performing their own song, the children also joined together with the other schools to sing several songs as part of a mass choir. It was a fantastic experience for them to perform alongside so many other young singers and to be part of such a special event.

The children represented our school brilliantly throughout the day. Their behaviour, effort and enthusiasm were excellent and they demonstrated great resilience when performing.

We are incredibly proud of all the children who took part and would like to thank them for their hard work and commitment in preparing for the festival. 

It was a memorable day and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joy of music together.

Year 2 Tower of London Trip - Wednesday 8th July 2026

Year 2: Tower of London

Tuesday 9th June 2026

Dear Parents/ Carers, 

Tower of London: Wednesday 8th July 2026

On Wednesday 8th July, Year 2 pupils will be visiting the Tower of London. The pupils will have the chance to explore the grounds and take part in a workshop linked to the Great Fire of London. On the day of the trip, children need to arrive in the morning at normal school time (8.30am) and we will be leaving promptly at 8.45am and returning to school at approximately 3pm. If we are due to arrive back to school early or late, a message will be shared on the school's Facebook page.

Children should wear normal school uniform and comfortable shoes and will need to bring with them/ wear on the day the following: 

• A waterproof coat.  

• Packed lunch in a named, plastic (disposable) bag.  

• A hat and suncream (if we are fortunate enough to have hot weather). 

Please complete the following permission and lunch request form by Friday 19th June.

https://forms.gle/NxDDsWnPXZhfdJmA7 

Many thanks for your continued support.

Miss Wyatt                    
Year Group Lead     

Rowan Class - Forest School

 

Rowan Class - Forest School

Rowan class were very happy to be back at forest school today. The rain held off meaning we were able to explore making sounds with instruments and then made our own woodland instrument too. We learnt about when to play or stop following a conductor. The children enjoyed the opportunity to learn about maypole dancing and welcoming the summer in, hopefully we’ll have some more sunshine soon. There was time to dig, use the swing and play foxes and rabbits. It was good to see the children lead their own learning as they each followed their different interests.

Could you please make sure that your children have the correct clothing on Monday as the weather is becoming very unpredictable! 

Thank you!