📱 WhatsApp Privacy Settings – Keeping Our Children Safe Online As our Year 6 pupils become increasingly independent online, we would like to remind pupils and parents about the importance of checking privacy and safety settings on WhatsApp . WhatsApp has a number of settings that can help children have greater control over who can contact them, who can add them to groups and who can see their personal information . 🔒 How to check your privacy settings Open WhatsApp and go to: Settings → Privacy From here, you can review a number of important settings: 👥 Groups Check who is able to add you to WhatsApp groups. Adjusting this setting can help prevent children from being added directly to unwanted groups. If someone who cannot add them tries to do so, they can receive an invitation instead and choose whether to join. 📸 Profile Photo Choose who can see your profile photograph. Consider whether you want people you don't know to be able to see it. 🟢 Last Seen & Online You can co...

 Today, we continued our learning about place value . We practised comparing numbers using the greater than, less than and equal to symbols . The children rolled a dice to generate their own 3-digit numbers and then worked on ordering them from smallest to largest. We used our stem sentence to help us explain our thinking and discovered that if the greatest place value is the same, we need to look at the next biggest place value to decide which number is greater.

 This week has been very busy for the children! In Maths, we have begun the mastery approach using our subitising skills. The children used the stem sentence "No need to count, I know the amount" when looking at dotty plates of 1,2 or 3.   We have learnt new sounds in Phonics and begun to orally segment to spell. The children were excited to learn spelling! For our story focus, we have been reading The Enormous Turnip. Pretending to heave the turnip to make it budge was funny.  In other areas, please take a look at our photos below. Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday. EYFS Team.

 This week in Nature Club we discussed how to recognise the beginning of Autumn and six big indicators:  - changing leaf colour - bird migration - fruits and berries on trees and bushes - flowering ivy - seed pods on the ground - mushrooms and toadstools In the school grounds we found most of the signs but did not see any migrating birds, although we knew that the swallows have gone, or any fungi. I hope that the Nature Clubbers will keep an eye out for more of all 6 indicators. Mr Hopegood :)

Please accept our apologies for the change of date for our reading workshop. Unfortunately, that date is not possible, therefore we have notified you as soon as we could. Again, please accept our apologies and we look forward to seeing you on Thursday 8th October. If you can no longer attend, information will be posted on the blog. EYFS Team. 

Year 6 Homework - Due 01/10/26 Reading The aim in year 6 is to strengthen fluency, increase vocabulary, and build confidence through regular practice. Reading at home as well at school helps progress and encourages consistent reading habits. Your support at home is greatly appreciated. Spellings Each week Year 6 will have a new set of 10 spellings that will be posted on the blog. Please support your child with learning these over the week. Thank you! Here are some different ways you can practise the spellings -  Maths Each week there will be Maths homework handed to the pupils on a Thursday. This homework will be based on areas of focus, pre-teaching for following lessons and recapping core subject areas. Please support them in completing this. Thank you. Have a lovely week! Mrs Campbell and Miss Rushen 😊

🌍🇫🇷 Year 6 Languages Day 🇩🇪🇹🇷 Year 6 had a fantastic time celebrating Languages Day! We explored different languages and cultures through a range of fun, creative and exciting activities. We started by writing French letters to pen pals, practising our French vocabulary and sentences while learning how to introduce ourselves, share information and ask questions. We also enjoyed reading part of Diary of a Wimpy Kid in Turkish, discovering how familiar stories can sound completely different when translated into another language! We then travelled to Germany by creating our own German café menus, learning new food and drink vocabulary and designing colourful menus. We also listened to German covers of well-known English songs, seeing if we could recognise the original songs while hearing them in a different language. To finish the day, we listened to songs from around the world and became language detectives, trying to identify the language being spoken and guess which country it c...