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Today, Year 4 were exploring the human digestive system. After thinking about the parts of the system, we explored how the food moves through the throat to the stomach and along the intestines. We 'digested' some food and our hands were the muscles that pushed the food along. Fun, mess and…

We have had lots of new friends join us in reception this week. We have had lots of fun exploring the classroom! Our favourite areas of the classroom have been the home corner and the music!

Year 5 voted for their school council representatives this week following a round of fantastic presentations from all the candidates. The two pupils with the most votes presented some strong ideas about the environment and improving reading areas around school. 
 

“Hello, I’m N and one of year…

Year 3 have worked really hard in maths today, solving place value problems.

Today, we had a great time being taught PE by a new face! We learnt lots of ball skills.

We can practise our weekly spelling on Purple Mash. Mrs Grierson sets a 2Do each week but you can practise as many times as you want by going to the quiz through the homepage. Click on the spelling scheme of work icon pictured above then click on- Year 2- Autumn 1 -and the week that we are doing.…

We have had a lovely day with our second group of new friends! We have enjoyed exploring our classroom, in particular, the playdough and painting areas! We also enjoyed sitting in the snack area and getting to know each other!

This was a fun and rather sticky activity in Year 4 this afternoon!

In teams, the challenge was to build the tallest, free-standing tower using spaghetti pasta and marshmallows. It really showed what great teamwork skills the children have. There were many styles and techniques and some were…

As part of our 'Marvellous Me' week, Year 4 thought about their strengths and talents. The children made positive affirmations about themselves and then created posters. A really 'feel-good' kind of day!

We’ve started Year 5 off with a bang and throughly enjoyed our Marvellous Me topic week. 
As part of the week we participated in a Healthy Heads Day. Here’s what some Year 5 pupils had to say about it…

”To unwind our bodies we did some stretches and my favourite stretch was snake pose. In…

We have had an excellent start of term in Year 3. Yesterday was Healthy Heads Day in school. We did workshops on resilience, mindfulness, yoga and thinking skills. We really enjoyed our day. Our favourite workshop was the yoga.

Year 6 have has an excellent start to their final year at Cathedral with a wellbeing week!

We've looked at our learning styles, how present and grounded we are, how we like to learn and what we've all got in common.

We also enjoyed a great day fill of mindfulness colouring, resilience…