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Wednesday 10 December 2025 Year 1 Visit Tara's Retreat! Today, KS1 headed over to Tara's Retreat Care Home in Sandridge to sing their Wriggly Nativity songs and spread some Christmas cheer! Both Year 1 and Year 2 sang beautifully and showed great respect to the residents watching - we were very proud.
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Wednesday 10 December 2025 Year 2 Visit Tara's Retreat! Today, KS1 headed over to Tara's Retreat Care Home in Sandridge to sing their Wriggly Nativity songs and spread some Christmas cheer! Both Year 1 and Year 2 sang beautifully and showed great respect to the residents watching - we were very proud.
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Wednesday 10 December 2025 Christingles! Year One had a chance to each make a Christingle with Reverend Kate and Reverend AJ from St Mary's church.
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Tuesday 9 December 2025 Early Years Blossom in Busy, Busy, Bethlehem! Congratulations to all of our children in Nursery and Reception for their wonderful performance of Busy, Busy Bethlehem. The children brought the Nativity to life with their fantastic singing and dancing, wonderful enthusiasm and confident, clear voices. Bethlehem was indeed buzzing with excitement, not only as a result of the Census, but in celebration of the Baby Jesus. The market stalls sold their olives, oranges, eggs, dates, cheese, chicken and all sorts as the crowds gathered and visitors entered the city. The story followed the journey of the little, but remarkably confident, soldier as well as the tired donkey, who needed a rest after carrying Mary on such a long journey. They finally found their place in the stable and the kings came with their kind offerings of gold, frankincense and the emphatic delivery of myrrh! It was wonderful to have such a packed school hall enjoying their delightful Nativity, which put us all in true Christmas spirit. Well done again to all of our ear
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Sunday 7 December 2025 Elves Workshop One again, our traditional Elves Workshop proved extremely popular and put everybody in festive mood on Sunday 7th December. The elves were kept extremely busy at the centre of operations in the school hall, and our school library looked splendid with its Christmas decorations and festive crafts. A big thank you to FOSS, and to the parents, along with a fantastic team of child volunteers, who helped to set up on Saturday and Sunday morning, and clear up at the end. The 'name the Snowman' competition result will be announced in Monday's assembly.
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Saturday 6 December 2025 Year 6 visit RAF Hendon On Friday, Year 6 enjoyed a visit to RAF Hendon as part of their studies on World War II. They were able to look at the planes involved in the Battle of Britain and found out more about the planning behind it and why Britain was able to fend off the Luftwaffe. There were also exhibitions on the Dowding system, RAF pilots, the history of the RAF, navigation and the role of coding in World War II.
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Friday 5 December 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 5th December Years 3 and 5 are on school trips on Friday 5th December, they will be choosing TWO stars next week as they are not in the Friday assembly to receive certificates.
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Friday 5 December 2025 Infants Shine in their 'Wriggly Nativity!' Congratulations to our wonderful Year 1 and Year 2 pupils on their fantastic performances of the Wriggly Nativity. It was indeed 'impossible to keep still' and the children re-told the Christmas story with actions, wriggles, dance and song. The children sang beautifully and every character, from the plodding donkey to the twinkling stars, beautiful angels, camels, donkeys, sheep, robins, shepherds, wise men... and of course Mary and Joseph, performed superbly and sang their hearts out. The narrators looked fantastic in their Christmas jumpers and spoke with clarity and confidence. We are extremely proud of all the children, a sense of fun, enthusiasm and wonderful humour was evident from start to finish!
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Wednesday 3 December 2025 Year 4 Shine at Abbey Carol Service! Our Year 4 class joined up with several other local schools to perform at the SAPSMA Abbey Christmas Carol service on Wednesday 3rd December. The theme was based on our Advent Calendar and counting the days of preparation up until Christmas Day. The children sang nine carols in total, starting off with 'It came upon the midnight clear' and finishing off with a traditional favourite; 'O Come all Ye Faithful.'
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Wednesday 3 December 2025 Year 2 Get Stranded! As Year 2 entered the classroom after lunch last week, they were met with a surprise! The lights were off and the sound of thunder filled the room - they had been deserted on an island!
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Wednesday 3 December 2025 Year 5 visit Bhaktivedanta Manor Earlier this term, Year 5 visited Bhaktivedanta Manor with Year 4. Although the weather was wet, they enjoyed an array of activities including a ride on the cart pulled by oxon, a tour of the greenhouse and gardens and a visit to the temple. The children also had the chance to dress up in traditional dress and be part of some captivating interactive story telling by our tour guide, Alison. They also provided a the fabulous lunch - which everyone enjoyed!
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Monday 1 December 2025 Year 6 Writing - Planetarium Year 6 have been writing non-chronological reports based on the book Planetarium, written by Raman Prinja and illustrated by Chris Wormell. We used technical words to improve accuracy, figurative language and questions to engage the reader, and subordinating conjunctions (e.g. although, since) to join facts together in sentences. We built complex sentences using commas to separate clauses. Here are excerpts (selected and typed by the children) from our final report.
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Monday 1 December 2025 Rabbi Adam Comes to Visit! Last Tuesday, Rabbi Adam visited Year 2 to talk all things Judaism. The children have been learning about the religion this half term with Mr Bridle and came prepared with thoughtful questions to build on their knowledge. They were especially excited to learn more about the weekly Shabbat celebrations and were eager to tell Miss Gray all about what they'd learned the next day!
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Monday 1 December 2025 Year 2 Get Cleaning! Last week, the Year 2 children became mini nurses and, under the instructions of Florence Nightingale (aka Miss Gray), got to work cleaning their hospital wards (otherwise known as tuff trays filled with red, brown and green paint!).
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Friday 21 November 2025 Stars of the week- Week ending Friday 21st November Nursery- Emmelia
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Friday 14 November 2025 Olga shares World War II stories with Year 5 Year 5 were treated to a wonderful range of historical stories on Thursday 13th November when Olga Hopkins, a St Albans resident who served with the WAAF in World War II, came in to share her experiences. Year 5 have written some thought-provoking war poems and, along with the rest of the school, enjoyed our Remembrance Day assembly earlier in the week, where Mrs Loukes played The Last Post and our school community observed the two-minute silence.
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Friday 14 November 2025 Stars of the week- Week ending Friday 14th November Nursery- Adele
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Friday 7 November 2025 Stars of the week- Week ending Friday 7th November Nursery- Otto
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Thursday 30 October 2025 Year 6 - Letters to France !
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Friday 24 October 2025 Stars of the Week- Week ending Friday 24th October Nursery- Pearl
