Whole School News
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Thursday 24 September 2026 Science: Longer nights and shorter days! We have just started our science topic about the seasons. Today, the children made paper chains to represent how the nights get longer in the winter and shorter in the summer. The yellow paper was sunlight hours and the black paper was the night time. We will be watching the trees outside our classroom carefully as autumn takes hold. We've already noticed the chilly mornings!
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Thursday 24 September 2026 Book Talk – The Vanquishers
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Thursday 24 September 2026 Y4: Brilliant Ball Skills! Year 4 were on the move in PE this week as we continued developing our ball skills, with a particular focus on dribbling with both our hands and our feet.
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Thursday 24 September 2026 Fitness Fundamentals This week in year 3, the children looked at the different way their body moves when jogging compared to when they are sprinting. The children noticed that their arms moved quicker and more rigidly when sprinting compared to a more relaxed way when jogging.
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Wednesday 23 September 2026 People who help us!
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Wednesday 23 September 2026 Hoot Hoot! We’re Exploring Owl Babies What a wonderful book we have started this week - Owl Babies! What a classic! 📚🦉
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Tuesday 22 September 2026 Forest School week 2 We had a super sunny Forest School session today. We reminded ourselves of the Forest School rules around the campfire before lighting it for the first time. Some of the children helped me add wood to the fire before we settled in to leaf rubbing and using sticks and wool to make some beautiful dragon's eyes! These are really fiddly to make but the children persevered and all succeeded. Some were even confident enough to help others who were finding it tricky. We downed tools to toast marshmallows on the fire and sandwiched them between biscuits. Yum! A lovely chilled afternoon with lots of quiet concentration and determination in action.
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Tuesday 22 September 2026 Goodbye Mrs. Murray...We Will Miss You! We simply couldn't wait until the end of the week to celebrate the marvellous Mrs Murray!After bringing the children into assembly ready for ‘Matt's Singing Assembly', Mrs Murray soon realised that something wasn't quite right. There wasn't going to be much singing at all. In fact, the whole assembly was about her!After an incredible 15 years at Southill, the time has come for Mrs Murray to swap school life for a very different kind of adventure. As much as we would happily keep her here for another 15 years, her dream of working for the fire service has come true and we couldn't be more delighted for her.Of course, we couldn't possibly let her leave without looking back at everything she has brought to Southill. So, we decided to perform ‘A Day in the Life of Mrs Murray', starring none other than... Mrs Murray herself!Her day began as any normal day would. Superhero cape safely packed in her bag, Mrs Murray arrived at school ready for whatever was planned. There wa
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Tuesday 22 September 2026 You've Been...CLASSIFIED! Our new science topic this half term is all about living things and their habitats and we have wasted no time getting up close and scientific with the animal kingdom!We have been studying animals carefully, spotting their characteristics and using these clues to work out how they can be classified. We've explored vertebrates and invertebrates and investigated what makes a mammal different from a bird, an amphibian different from a reptile and an arachnid different from other arthropods. Turns out, in the animal kingdom, it really does pay to know who has a backbone!We have also been getting to grips with classification keys, learning how carefully chosen questions can separate animals according to their distinguishable features. Sounds simple enough... until you actually have to make one!After practising last week, the children were set the challenge of using everything they had learned to classify 10 random animals. Cue plenty of trial and error, a few wrong turns, some furrowed brows
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Monday 21 September 2026 Zombierella This week in Book Talk, we are sinking our teeth into Zombierella by Joseph Coelho! This deliciously dark twist on the classic Cinderella tale follows Cinderella, who meets a rather unfortunate end before the Shadow of Death brings her back to life for three nights as Zombierella!We began today by unpicking some of the weird, wonderful and gruesome vocabulary used in the first chapter. Tomorrow, we will delve deeper into the story, exploring key themes, discussing the author's clever language choices and making predictions about what might happen next.Later in the week, the children will put their reading skills to the test by answering comprehension questions before we move on to something particularly gruesome... zombie poetry! The children will be ZOMBIFIED and challenged to imagine themselves as one of the undead. Using sentences of three, repetition and their senses, they will describe the revolting sights, stomach-churning smells and spine-tingling sounds of a zombie. Expect dang
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Sunday 20 September 2026 Hulalaaaa What a fantastic way to start the day! Our latest Fitness Friday took place before school and brought plenty of energy, smiles and, of course, hula hoops to the playground!
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Friday 18 September 2026 Year 2 patterns and BeeBots! This week we have been focusing on giving instructions in computing. The Bee-Bots proved perfect for this. The children worked in pairs to programme in where they wanted them to go, changing their instructions accordingly. We saw lots of teamwork, resilience and giggles!
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Friday 18 September 2026 Mathematicians flexibly partitioning This week the children took on the challenge of flexibly partitioning numbers up to 1,000. This can be tricky to understand when children are used to partitioning in hundreds, tens and ones. They were told that each part could have a mixture of hundreds, tens and ones and that the number would still be the same! They had a great time drawing on the tables and working with their partner!
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Thursday 17 September 2026 Y4: Canopic Creations! What a fantastic few afternoons of art we have had in Year 4! As part of our current art unit, the children travelled back in time to explore the fascinating world of Egyptian pottery. Our challenge was to create our own canopic jars from clay while considering our enquiry question: What can pottery tell us about the past?
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Thursday 17 September 2026 First Forest School Year 3 and 4 had a fantastic first Forest School session!
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Wednesday 16 September 2026 BLP, Buddies and BLUEY!? This afternoon, we continued our PSHE learning by brushing up on our Learning Powers. We reintroduced Ninja Nutmeg, Captain Shelby, Sir Owlington and Agent Buzzbee to the class, unpicking what they represent and how important it is to follow in their footsteps when completing learning tasks.When we develop our ability to be resilient, reflective, resourceful and reciprocal, we are truly prepared for learning!In order to put the children's Learning Powers to the test, we split them into four groups, with each group focusing on a different area. Four children were chosen to dress up as the characters to really hammer home the purpose of each task. Here is what each group got up to...ResilienceIn Captain Shelby's group, the children were shown a path drawn in chalk on the playground. They were then blindfolded and partnered up with someone who had to direct them safely to the end. The catch? If they stepped on the line or outside of it, they had to go all the way back to the beg
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Wednesday 16 September 2026 From Fins to Feet: Exploring Animals and Humans We have been busy little scientists in Year 1, as we have started our exciting new science learning all about animals and humans!
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Tuesday 15 September 2026 🏑 Pass, Move, Support!
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Tuesday 15 September 2026 Exploring COOL time (Choose our own learning)
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Tuesday 15 September 2026 📖 What Can You See? Our reading session began with a rather unusual challenge today! On the board were just three words: The Magic Box.