A few weeks ago, we asked year 5 and 6 to complete a grid picture for a piece of art inspired by the portraits of the American artist, Chuck Close. This was a whole class art project that ended with the surprising 'reveal' of a large-scale picture. We now have all of the grids [...]
The children at Cuddington and Dinton School have made a Thank you banner. It will be put up in Stoke Mandeville so all the NHS workers can see it on their way to the hospital.
This week the infants have been celebrating Diwali, in mixed aged classes. We listened to, and retold, the story of Rama and Sita and learned that Diwali is the festival of lights. We celebrated it by creating Rangoli patterns out of coloured rice, Mehdi patterns on hand templates and we created collages in [...]
Cosmin from Team rubicon came to visit the school today and ran a series of skateboard and scooter sessions with years 1 to 6. The children loved the activities and even learnt some tricks! Skateboarding and scootering is a great way to keep the children active, build confidence, build core strength, encourage learning and motivate healthy [...]
Congratulations to Lucas in year 5 who competed in two 'Epee Fencing' competitions this weekend. Lucas had a packed weekend, first at the Cocks Moors Woods Fencing Club Epee Championship in Birmingham; followed by the Bucks, Berks & Oxon County Epee & Sabre Championship in High Wycombe. Lucas’ fencing was on top form, he [...]
Year 3 and 4 have had a wonderful 'New York' day, working on their Stephen Wiltshire pencil drawings of the New York skyline, writing recipes and then working in groups to create delicious bowls of coleslaw. Lunchtime was a highlight of the day and the children tucked in with great enthusiasm to hotdogs followed [...]
Please click here to read the prayer of Remembrance, by year 5
Mr Brogan visited Year 5 as part of our science forces topic on air resistance and lift. These forces are fundamental to paragliding and therefore Mr Brogan was able to demonstrate and explain how these forces work when he is flying. The children were very excited to see the paraglider wing up close and analyse [...]
Click here to read the Y6 prayer
Over the past two weeks Year 2 have been investigating absorbency. We identified absorbent materials and then focused on different types of paper. We predicted which we thought would be the best, and then used them to create tea bags. We tested them to find out which would absorb and hold the water without [...]
