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Friday 11 October 2024 OPAL Play - Den Building - Oct 2024 Earlier this week, we introduced den building into our OPAL play. The children really enjoyed building dens and other constructions using their wonderful imagination! (We could do with many more 'loose parts' for even more exciting den building!)
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Thursday 3 October 2024 Y5 - Harvest Service - Oct 2024 Well done to Year 5 for your lovely Harvest Service at St. Mary's Church this morning. Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to support the service and thank you also to everyone who has made a donation. The donations will be taken to the Bognor Regis food bank which is part of the Trussell Trust.
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Wednesday 2 October 2024 Y3 - Butser Farm - Oct 2024 Today Year 3 visited Butser Ancient Farm and experienced many activities first hand, to support their current topic - The Stone Age.
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Thursday 26 September 2024 Y5 - Fishbourne Creek trip - Sep 2024 Year 5 managed to avoid the rain for their trip to Fishbourne Creek yesterday, only getting wet when they actually got in the Creek. Indigo Class learnt how to measure the flow of the water as well as identifying what happens in different parts of the river. On our way to the Dell Quay Classroom, they also saw where the mouth of the River Lavant flows into the harbour. During their walk they noticed coastal erosion and the impact it was having on the wildlife. A great outdoor learning day down by the creek!
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Tuesday 24 September 2024 Y3 - Stone Age Experience Day - Sep 2024 As part of our topic and our English, we often have experience lessons to keep the children engaged in their learning. This morning we have been out in our environmental area, pretending to be stone age people living during stone age times. The children have had to make their own shelters, whittle tools to use and work together to achieve their goals. We also had a fire, to keep us warm.
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Tuesday 24 September 2024 Y4 - Brighton Museum Trip - Sep 2024 Blue Class had a great day today at Brighton Museum where the children got the chance to handle real Ancient Egyptian artefacts and took part in a fantastic mummification workshop where the children learnt all about the embalming process, including how to remove the organs from the body! Photos below.
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Wednesday 18 September 2024 Y6 - Weald and Downland Museum - Sep 2024 Year 6 visited the Weald and Downland Museum today as part of their Tudor Topic. They visited the Winkhurst Tudor Kitchen, Bayleaf Farmstead, Cowfold Barn and Pendean Farmhouse, which was one of the first homes to have proper chimneys in 1586. The children had lots of fun finding out about life in the Tudor times and then finally had time to complete some sketching. We had lots of positive comments by volunteers and visitors about how polite and well mannered the children were too! Well done Year 6 and a lovely day in the Sussex sunshine!
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Tuesday 10 September 2024 House Captains and Prefects - Sep 2024 A big, warm Walberton welcome to our new House Captains and Prefects in Y6 this year! Our House Captains were chosen by their peers and the Autumn Term Prefects were voted in by all the members of staff - well done to all of you for being chosen! We know you will be great role models for our school!
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Monday 22 July 2024 Y6 Leavers' Assembly - July 2024 And so we said, once again, a sad farewell to our Y6 Leavers at this afternoon's assembly. You have been a great class this year - full of character! Hopefully you will all stay in touch and let us know how you are getting on in your next school adventures!
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Monday 22 July 2024 End of Year Church Service at St. Mary's - July 2024 Last Friday morning, Tim led worship in St. Mary's church with a 'summer theme' all about looking after ourselves in the summer, refreshing ourselves and spending quality time with loved ones. Some of the children even got to play some summer games in church!
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Sports Day 2024 Well done to all the children who took part in Sports Day today in glorious sunshine! It was lovely to see all the children cooperating with each other and supporting one another on all the activities both this morning and this afternoon!
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Y6 visit - PC Sibun and Toby Hewson Y6 welcome two visitors yesterday - PC Sibun and Toby Hewson from the Parish Council,
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Thursday 18 July 2024 Y6 - Shakespeare Rocks! - July 2024 What amazing performances from Y6 on Wednesday of their Leavers' production of Shakespeare Rocks! You sang, danced and acted brilliantly! What an amazingly talented bunch you are! Photos below.
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Monday 15 July 2024 VIPs of VIPs! - July 2024 Well done to all our "VIPs of VIPs" today in assembly! It was lovely to celebrate all our lovely VIPs voted for by the children in each class but also by the adults. Well done to all of you - you are a real credit to our school!
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Friday 12 July 2024 Y5 - Greek Day - July 2024 Greek Day
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Thursday 4 July 2024 W&B General Election - July 2024 Our four main political parties: 'Birch Party', 'Oak Party', 'Pine Party' and 'Sycamore Party' held a W&B General Election assembly this morning where the children from each party spoke passionately and persuasively about a range of subjects that effect our school life, our local community, our national picture and our global outlook. The children prepared and made speeches with some great ideas and policies!
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Wednesday 3 July 2024 Transition Day - July 2024 Lots of happy faces on Transition Day today - we're looking forward to seeing you all properly in your new classes in September! Photos below.
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Tuesday 25 June 2024 Y6 Diocesan Leavers' Service - June 2024 What a privilege it was, on a beautiful sunny day, for our Year 6 class to attend the Diocesan Leavers' Service at Chichester Cathedral yesterday. There were 12 primary schools attending alongside many dignitaries from the Diocese, including the Bishop of Chichester. Violet Class, you did us proud with your dramatic reading from the bible yesterday, rewarded with a hearty clap from the whole congregation! You also looked so smart in your shirt and ties, with your full school uniform on! Hopefully, the memories of this service, and your contribution to it, will help you on your journey towards secondary school.
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Thursday 20 June 2024 Cricket Tournament - June 2024 Well done to our cricket team on Tuesday this week as they took on a number of strong teams at the cricket tournament at Littlehampton Cricket Club. The team came 11th out of 12 schools but did win their last game so ended the day on a high! Well done to all of you for playing in the right spirit. Photos here.
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Monday 17 June 2024 Summer Fair - June 2024 What an amazing Summer Fair we had last Friday - the British weather behaved itself and meant it was dry and sunny, if a little windy! Many, many thanks to Emmie, Lisa and all the members of the PTA who worked so hard throughout the day (and in the days before the fair), to make it so memorable for our whole school community. The fair raised over £4000 for the school - well done everyone!
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Friday 14 June 2024 Humanities Week Assembly - June 2024 It was lovely to see lots of children across the school showing off their work yesterday in our Humanities week celebration assembly. It was amazing how much the children had learnt about different regions across the world. Photos here.
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Sunday 9 June 2024 Quadkids Athletics - June 2024 Well done to all of our Y6 athletes who took part in the Quadkids athletics event on Friday last week. The children had to show different athletics skills in the four part event: a sprint race, a 600m race, standing long jump and vortex howler throw - all of our athletics representatives did really well in quite blustery conditions! Well done to all of you - photos here.
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Sunday 9 June 2024 Y6 - Making Pizza - Humanities Week 2024 Violet Class enjoyed making delicious pizza early last week as part of their delve into Europe in Humanities week 2024 - photos here.
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Friday 7 June 2024 Y2 - 'Little Big Sing!' - June 2024 Y2 had a really nice time visiting Yapton Primary School yesterday to perform in the 'Little Big Sing!' event. Alongside singing their own songs, Y2 performed some music numbers with some of the infants from Yapton Primary School - lovely to see our school interacting and singing with another local school! Photos below.
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Wednesday 5 June 2024 Y4 - Pagham Harbour - June 2024 Blue Class had a lovely time in the sunshine at Pagham Harbour today, learning all about the habitats in that area. Photos below.
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Monday 27 May 2024 Y4 - Japan Children's Day - May 2024 Year 4 had a fantastic day last Friday celebrating the end of their Japan topic.
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Friday 24 May 2024 Y6 - Out of Bounds Day - May 2024 Year 6 had a fantastic day today to celebrate the end of their SATs test last week with a trip to 'Out of Bounds' in Rustington. Violet Class managed to fit in: 'Clip 'n' Climb, Adventure Golf, Lunch, Bowling and Adventure Nets! All in one day! The sunshine was glorious and the children had a great day! Photos here.
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Friday 24 May 2024 Y6 - Olympic Enrichment Day - May 2024 Year 6 had an excellent day yesterday thanks to our Premier Sports coaches where they tried different Olympic sports on an 'Olympic enrichment day" with fencing and archery among the highlights! A fun-packed, sport filled day!
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Thursday 23 May 2024 Y3 Roman Day - May 2024 Today in Green Class we had Roman Day! Throughout the day the children were able to experience different activities. They made Roman helmets, created mosaics, working with Roman numerals and even made Roman honey biscuits.
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Wednesday 22 May 2024 Y6 Residential - Lodge Hill - Day Three Although it rained a little today, Y6 enjoyed their last day at Lodge Hill with sno-tubing, rifle shooting, team building exercises followed by an orienteering challenge across the whole site. Well done to Year 6 - you were a pleasure to take away and a real credit to the school!