Week ending 02/10/2026

Star of the Week - Oliver - role model behaviour and always following the Golden Rules

Writer of the Week -Jack - excellent effort on his report about Ancient Greece

Reader of the Week - Emmanuel - great effort in his guided reading tasks, especially the assessment 

It has been another busy week for C9! We have now completed our draft reports on Ancient Greece. It involved a lot of writing, but the finished reports are really interesting and show just how much the children have learned.

In our outdoor PE sessions, we focused on agility, dodging and accelerating, as well as trying to outwit a partner. In science, we consolidated our understanding of how to make a closed circuit, this time using buzzers and motors. We certainly have some budding electricians among us, with children successfully exploring what happens when they add different components to their circuits!

Finally, in drumming, we focused on listening carefully for the pulse within a rhythm.

Week Ending 25/09/2026 

Writer of the Week: Cael - for an excellent paragraph about homes in Ancient Greece

Mathematician of the Week: Cooper - showing resilience and confidence when comparing 4-digit numbers

Star of the Week - Marley - consistently working hard all week and producing an excellent home-learning piece about Ancient Greece

We loved our workshop with Catherine, who gave us fascinating insights into life in Ancient Greece and gave us the opportunity to handle original artefacts. This experience helped us to develop our ideas and draft our report on Ancient Greece in English.

In Science, we investigated how electrical circuits work and were incredibly proud when we successfully worked out how to light a bulb. And, of course, we loved Francophone Day! As a year group, we proudly represented Côte d’Ivoire while learning much more about other French-speaking countries through competitive games, research and teamwork.

Week Ending 18/09/2026

Star of the Week - Layla Jones for being a fantastic role model all week 

Reader of the Week - Mia for making excellent inferences about our Greek myths

C9 have had another successful week, with good attendance at 96.7%. Highlights of our week include: developing our note-taking skills in preparation for our report on life in Ancient Greece; becoming more confident with 4-digit numbers, partitioning them in different ways and challenging ourselves with problem-solving questions; building our fitness levels and balancing skills in PE and exploring the Trim Trail, playing board games and engaging in sensory experiences during Golden Time. 

Week Ending 11/09/2026

Star of the Week: Noah -for following the Golden Rules all week

Hand Writer of the Week: Racheiya -for concentrating hard on our new handwriting workouts

Mathematician of the week: Jack -for working hard on thousand numbers

In English, C9 started their unit on report writing, using journalistic skills to read information and identify suitable headings and sub-headings for different sections. They have challenged themselves in maths to understand and represent thousands as well as doing plenty of times tables practice! 

Other highlights include: Headteacher Story Time where they sang climate songs and read about the science of the brain; doing a daily body workout to improve handwriting skills, and of course, meeting together in our Beechwood Houses for the first time, reciting our chants  with real enthusiasm. 

School diaries will be given out on Monday. These are packed full of really helpful information from key dates, school values, curriculum learning mats, school songs and much more. You will also find their individual Spelling Shed and Purple Mash/TTRS login details here. Please start to look at these online platforms with your child this week- they are really fun way to practise spelling skills and build fluency in times tables.