We've been celebrating Chinese New Year all week and doing various fun activities through out, such as taking part in a live assembly, making paper lanterns and doing exercises that are typical for children at school in China. Today Sycamore learned a new skill - Chinese calligraphy! We found out about the history of Chinese characters for writing and had a go writing our own using special calligraphy brushes and ink on rice paper. Though it was quite tricky (and messy) we all did a really...

Sycamore and Cherry visited All Hallows Church today as part of our RE learning. Reverend Gary told us all about how the church is used, the features of the church and the special jobs he does. We also got to see some of his special clothes and even try them on!

In Sycamore we have been creating and publishing our own diamante poems, inspired by our class text "The Storm Whale". We first explored...