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Yr 5 at Cobnor...
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Campfire at Cobnor...
2/33
We celebrated the Coronation with an indoor picnic
3/33
Science week
4/33
International Day to raise the children's awareness of the world
5/33
Buddy Reading - a great way to share a book
6/33
Forgiveness 2023
7/33
Visits to learn more about St Mary's church
8/33
Outdoor activities to learn more about ourselves
9/33
The world of work - visitors to our school teach us about the world of work and what skills we need for careers.
10/33
Christingle
11/33
Practical science helps the children to deepen their knowledge and understanding
12/33
Sensory gardens - KS1 explored their senses by designing their gardens, the plan, design and making were all important steps in the process
13/33
UK and Austria class harvested the pumpkins and are reading Pumpkin Soup and Harvest stories
14/33
Celebrating The Olympics and Paralympics - achieve, believe and succeed. The children thought about what they wanted to achieve
15/33
Using a range of materials in outdoor learning to develop fine motor skills and experimenting with making bowls
16/33
Games - being outdoor and joining in with physical activity is good for our mental health and keeps us healthy
17/33
At Harvest we collected gifts for a charity, Family Support Work. The gifts were displayed at church. We like to support charities
18/33
Art - final pieces
19/33
Rainforest Art Year 4
20/33
We treasure each child and enable them to flourish, using their God-given potential.
21/33
Science and light - practical science to help the children understand the learning
22/33
Story stones encourage children to retell the story using story language. This is the story of The Small Miracle.
23/33
Year 6 have been making microorganisms as part of their learning. The conversation helps the children to store this in their long term memory.
24/33
Using the 'Understanding Christianity' pictures for worship.
25/33
We love curling up with a book!
26/33
Writing instructions together and then making speedy bird cake.
27/33
Swimming Gala at The Pavilions, Horsham with two teams of swimmers. The team were awarded second place against many other schools.
28/33
We promote a love of reading by each classroom having a reading corner, Whole class reader every day and story time with the class teacher
29/33
Swimming lessons in our on-site pool - with the River Arun in our village it is important that the children learn to swim
30/33
Key Stage Two sports day - showing their competitive nature.
31/33
Showcasing curriculum content to parents - an opportunity to practise our spoken language and performing to an audience.
32/33
Chichester Cathedral - the venue for the Diocesan Leavers' Service...
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Yr 5 at Cobnor...
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Yr 5 at Cobnor...
5/58
Year 5 and 6 composition art work
6/58
We encourage our children to take part in extra-curricular sporting events, like this Duathlon...
7/58
Hockey match at Tanbridge
9/58
Using all of the gym equipment in the Hall.
10/58
Chicks, Spring 2023...
11/58
Following our recent OFSTED report we are now a 'Good' school in all areas and in overall effectiveness.
12/58
Reception - wellie garden...
13/58
'Talk for Writing' - using actions and words while acting out a story...
14/58
Reception - play house...
15/58
Year 3 visited the River Arun as part of their topic. We can learn so much from the river that runs through our village.
16/58
Reception - play area...
17/58
Reception allotment...awaiting planting.
18/58
Pirate ship...
19/58
Oudoor eco classroom...also used as the Reading Shack...
20/58
Story chair in St Mary's Garden...
22/58
Forest School fire pit...
23/58
Forest school - den-building...
24/58
And the swimming pool was open till Autumn half-term!
25/58
Bugfest visit for Year 4
26/58
Some of the Bugfest creatures
27/58
Horsham District Football competition
28/58
Egyptian masks as part of the children's Design and Technology
29/58
We are keen to tell the children more about the world in which they live and how they can protect our planet
30/58
Home learning projects to allow children the time to deepen their learning
31/58
Enrichment - we are keen for the children to access as many opportunities as possible.
32/58
Accelerated Reader not only helps our reading skills, but also develops our vocabulary skills
33/58
Team building - opportunities to find out about our class mates, show courage and resilience and spend time outdoors
34/58
Art
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Year 4 Art work
36/58
We swim together as a shoal, we are all individual fish that are beautiful and have our own skills and talents.
37/58
Hawking About launched the topic of 'Predators and Prey'. The children became experts on birds of prey through first hand experience.
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Maths working wall to scaffold the children's learning at the point of teaching.
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Sharing books in the book corner linked to our topic at the child's level.
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The EYFS children were in awe today when they found that the caterpillar had made a cocoon.
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Celebrating Maths with the children
42/58
Oracy - spoken language is important in developing our learners
43/58
Many more children are developing their vocabulary through reading and high quality texts
44/58
Songdoo came and worked with Year 5 children on Antibullying - we made our own St Mary's anti-bullying song. Listen to it on our front page.
45/58
Children's Mental Health Week - we are 'Growing Together'
46/58
Science - we know about the parts of our bodies
47/58
Mollie Hughes - Adventurer and Explorer and the North and South pole - talked about courage, perseverance and resilience.
48/58
Self portraits in Early Years - art skills
49/58
Reading corners with challenging texts
50/58
The sequence of writing and the learning journey
51/58
Curriculum topics...
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Curriculum topics...
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We love to read!
54/58
A visit to HMS Victory
55/58
Swimming for KS2 - progression of skills in our swimming awards
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Lantern making - using our DT skills
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Made by the children of St Mary's with the support of St Mary's Church
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Our Remembrance display...
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Yr 6 football team...
3/31
Sunset at Cobnor...
4/31
Yr 5 at Cobnor...
5/31
A team of Yr 3 and 4 children took part in training for 'The Road to Eastbourne' tennis competition...
6/31
Science Wall in the school hall...
7/31
Space exploration, EYFS-style....
8/31
The new History Timeline will help the children to identify important events in history, both locally and internationally
9/31
Celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
10/31
Visual images in Maths
11/31
World Mental Health Day and raising awareness across the school - it's good to talk!
12/31
Phonics - we learn by 'doing'
13/31
The Great Wave - artist study exploring colour mixing and creating texture
14/31
Talk stories about The Gingerbread Man - the children need to be able to talk stories in order to write stories.
15/31
Art and mark-making
16/31
Practical Maths and support to ensure we are the best that we can be
17/31
Pupil voice - our voices are important when we think about what we want to learn about our half termly topics
18/31
Multiskills for Y4 at The Weald - a chance to learn alongside children from other locality schools and practise skills
19/31
Making pumpkin soup in response to the book 'Pumpkin Soup'. The children then tried their soup.
20/31
SPLASH joined us for worship. We talked about the joy of giving and the love attached to the gifts. Thank you to SPLASH.
21/31
Anti-bullying - A whole school initiative to raise awareness of how important this is
22/31
Story stones are great for sequencing stories and retelling.
23/31
What an experience to hold an owl!
24/31
Year 6 visited the church for worship
25/31
Reflection on worship in school and what it means to the children and their lives.
26/31
The children in Italy class were experimenting with beat and simple rhythms.
27/31
The children in EYFS paraded as part of Chinese New Year
28/31
Sketching - look at the daffodils
29/31
Year 3 printing
30/31
Author visits inspire our readers and writers - great to pick up your own copy.
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