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Year 1
We have continued with our topic theme of houses and homes this week. We have looked at Mr Jones’ house from the outside and tried to sketch the windows, door, garage, roof and chimney. We have been listening to all the variations of the three little pigs story and tried very hard to re write…
Year 2
Ernest Shackleton sent us an advert that he published in the newspaper, asking for volunteers to travel aboard the ‘Endurance’ ship to Antarctica. Most of us were eager despite finding out about the gruelling conditions and low wages. After chiselling away at the advert frozen in a lump of ice, we wrote letters to Ernest…
Boarding fun!
Our four new gap students have settled into Copthorne and had some bonding time with the boarders last weekend at the Crawley Hollywood Bowl. They also celebrated Harry’s birthday with cake and other treats!
Year 2
Year 2 The children were intrigued when they returned to school and their classrooms looked like they had been frozen with icicles and even some snow flakes. A lost, lonely penguin was found by each class so we wrote a ‘Found’ poster describing where we thought the penguin lived. They have been captivated by our…
Year 1
The children have returned to school very happy and they were very pleased to see their friends. We have been talking about our New Year’s resolutions, many of which have included helping around the house, recycling more, tidying up and helping with the washing up. We look forward to hearing if the children have kept…
Reception
Welcome back to all Reception children. There has been a constant chorus of chatter filled with excitement since we came back. The children have shared fantastic stories about their wonderful Christmas holiday and Santa seems to have spoiled everyone thoroughly this year! We have written our first holiday news this week and we all tried…
Nursery
Nursery Acorns and Pippins class have all settled back into school beautifully. We are pleased to welcome Suraya, Lola and Ebba to our happy classes and look forward to welcoming some others in the coming weeks. This week in Forest Fun we made some really beautiful pictures using sticks and spray paint which looked good enough…
Drama
Year 5 were practising their expressions in the mirror in Drama today. They practised sorrow, guilt, joy, disgust, love, anger and pity. Their peers then had to guess what expression they were showing and they had such fun whilst doing so!
In History this week year 4 have been learning about Roman gladiators. They were amazed that people enjoyed watching gladiators fight to the death and even against lions! They learnt interesting facts by playing board games! Learning with board games is fun, engaging and helps develop social and communication skills!