🌈 Our Colour Monster Week! 🌈

What a lovely, busy week we have had! 💛 This week we have been exploring The Colour Monster and talking all about our feelings and emotions. We have been learning that our feelings can come in lots of different colours:

💙 Blue – Sad
...❤️ Red – Angry
💛 Yellow – Happy
💚 Green – Calm

The children enjoyed sorting the different colours and talking about how each colour makes them feel. We also created our very own happy Colour Monster by sticking yellow pieces of paper onto a monster template. 🎨

✋ Fine Motor Fun
We explored pom poms and used tweezers to pick them up and move them around. This was a great way to practise our pincer grip, hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills while having lots of fun!

🏃‍♀️ Gross Motor Adventures
Outside, we have been keeping our bodies moving with lots of running, jumping and climbing on our outdoor frame. We have enjoyed developing our physical skills and building our confidence as we explore the outdoor environment. 🌳

🎶 Singing & Nursery Rhymes
We have also enjoyed singing lots of songs, with Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes being one of our favourites! 🎵 It has been especially lovely watching the children choose their own favourite nursery rhymes to share with their friends. We have enjoyed joining in together and discovering all the songs our friends love. 🥰

What a wonderful week of feelings, colours, movement, music and fun! 🌈💛

💜⭐ YEAR 6 FISH & TIPS EVENING ⭐💜

What a wonderful evening celebrating our fantastic Year 6 children.

We welcomed parents and carers into the academy for our Year 6 Fish & Tips Evening, sharing key information about the year ahead and how we can work together to ...support our children as they prepare for the next stage of their journey.

Most importantly, we had the opportunity to celebrate just how much our Year 6 children have already achieved. We presented our latest iAspire badges, with many children achieving their Ruby Award for completing 4 challenges and their Emerald Award for completing 6. What an amazing start to Year 6. ⭐

After enjoying some delicious fish and chips together, it was time for the announcement everyone had been waiting for… our 2026–27 Junior Leadership Team and Prefects. 💜

⭐ Head Students: Harriet and Heidi
⭐ Deputy Head Students: Charlotte and Alfie
📚 Leaders of Reading: Inara and Evelyn
💜 Leaders of Wellbeing: Preston and Marley
🎓 Leaders of Curriculum: Ethan and Logan
⭐ House Captains: Harley, Bella, Ruby and Billy

💜 Prefects: Isla and Kiara

Our Head and Deputy Head Students were chosen following a whole-academy vote, with children and staff having their say after listening to the candidates' speeches.

We could not be prouder of every child who put themselves forward for a role. It takes confidence, courage and a real commitment to our academy to stand in front of others and say, “I want to make a difference.”

And they are already doing us proud. Today, our new Junior Leadership Team delivered their very first Pride & Joy assembly, and they were absolutely amazing. They spoke with confidence, supported one another and showed exactly why they have been chosen to represent our academy. 💜⭐

We cannot wait to see everything this brilliant group achieves this year.

Proud to be a Badger. 💜

✍️📚 Signed Books in the Reading Routes Area! 📚✍️

There is a fresh buzz around our KS2 Reading Routes area this week! 🐝📖 Mrs Easby has officially added a selection of books signed by author James Harris, who visited and worked with our students during the second week of ...term. ✍️📚

The children are already eager to dive into them — make sure to check them out next time you're browsing! 👀📖

⭐ Real signed copies from a real author! ⭐

Happy reading! 💜📚

Exploring Rules and Making Good Choices in RE! 📜✨

This half term in Religious Education, our Year 1/2 children have been exploring a big question: How do people decide how to live a good life?

We kicked off by looking close to home—thinking about our own school rules, why ...we need them, and how we decide what rules are fair.

Building on this, pupils began to explore how different faiths use core guidance to make positive choices:

Christianity: Learning how Christians look to the Ten Commandments to guide their daily lives.
Islam: Discovering how the Five Pillars help Muslims live faithfully and make good decisions.

We’re so impressed by the thoughtful discussions and respect our pupils have shown throughout these lessons. It was so lovely to hear the children expressing their ideas and explaining who the ‘pillars’ are in their lives.🧠💭

Up next, we’ll be continuing our journey by exploring Sikhism and how Sikh teachings guide believers in living a good life.

⭐ 100% Attendance Winners ⭐

A huge well done to Frankie (KS1) and Dolly (KS2), our 100% attendance winners! 🏆👏

Both children were in school every day last week and were celebrated in assembly, each receiving a £10 B&M voucher. 🎁💜

Who will our lucky ...winners be next week? 👀⭐

You've got to be in it to win it! 🎟️🏆

🔊 Y3/4 Science – Super Sound Detectives 🔍

Our Year 3/4 scientists have been turning into sound detectives, investigating exactly how we hear the world around us. 👂🎶

The children discovered that every sound begins with a vibration – a tiny back-and-forth movement ...that creates invisible sound waves which travel through the air, a little like ripples spreading across water. 🌊

We explored how sound can travel through different mediums, discovering that vibrations can move through solids, liquids and gases. The children even cracked a space mystery, learning that because space has no air, sound waves have nothing to travel through – meaning space is completely silent. 🚀🌌

To demonstrate their new learning, the children created scientific diagrams and revisited their original ideas, showing how sound waves travel outwards to reach our ears. ✏️🧠

What fantastic scientific thinking from our Year 3/4 children! ⭐ Why not ask them to demonstrate a vibration at home or explain why astronauts can’t hear each other shout in space? 🚀