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Year 1

Remembrance 2024

2024-11-14T11:37:59+00:0014th November, 2024|Home, News, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6|

After a few days of poppy selling, our children wore their poppies with pride and joined a two minute silence at Cuddington and Dinton War memorials.  It fell to the eldest and youngest pupils to have the honour of laying a wreath. Thanks to Lucy, Ingrid, Athena and Darcey who laid wreaths at Chearsley, [...]

Year 1 Investigate Materials and Shapes which Float

2024-10-24T11:23:09+01:0024th October, 2024|Home, News, Year 1|

In Science, Year 1 have been looking at Materials. Today, we built our very own boats out of paper and masking tape and we tested how these floated in the water. We found out that the longer we left the boats in the water, the more the water soaked into the paper and therefore [...]

Year 1 and 2 visit to the Cotswold Motor Museum

2024-10-10T17:41:24+01:0010th October, 2024|Home, News, Year 1, Year 2|

We had a very exciting day at the Cotswolds Motor museum. Throughout the day, we had two different activities to do. One of these activities was to try and make a moving wheel just out of a cotton wheel, plasticine, an elastic band, some tiny cocktail sticks and a flat washer. Everybody managed to [...]

Harvest Celebration

2024-09-30T17:12:15+01:0030th September, 2024|Foundation, Home, News, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6|

We enjoyed our whole school joining together for Harvest today, celebrated at Cuddington Church.  The Junior pupils travelled by coaches carrying their donations for a local food bank.  Thank you to the parents and children who generously donated - please see the photograph of our School Council with the display. At the end of [...]

Meet the new School Council

2024-10-18T17:04:01+01:0027th September, 2024|Foundation, Home, News, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6|

Congratulations to our new School Council members, who have been elected by their peers over the past few weeks. A school council is a formal group of pupils who act as representatives of their classmates in discussing school issues with the headteacher and staff.  They work to make improvements to the school and the [...]

Tasty Tomatoes at Forest School

2024-09-18T09:22:43+01:0018th September, 2024|Home, News, Year 1|

In our first Forest School session, we picked some of the tomatoes that the children grew last year in Foundation and took them to Forest School. Here, we washed and cut them up into small pieces very carefully. Afterwards, we smelt the tomatoes, ate them and they were delicious! Miss Bailey was very impressed [...]

Infant Sports Day 2024

2024-07-04T16:19:44+01:004th July, 2024|Foundation, Home, News, Sport, Year 1, Year 2|

Our annual sports day was enjoyed by children and spectating parents at our Infant site on Thursday 4th July.  Every child completed in their House colours, enjoying a running race, egg and spoon, vortex throw and water challenge!  Points were awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th places. Congratulations to Hughenden House (red) for [...]

Science Experiment Challenge at Lord Williams’s School

2024-06-26T10:14:09+01:0026th June, 2024|Home, News, Year 1, Year 4|

Some children from classes Y1 to Y4 were lucky enough to attend the annual Science Experience event run by Lord William's School. The children had the opportunity to take part in a  range of exciting science investigations. These included: visiting a planetarium, investigating which metal is best for a lemon battery, investigating oxygen in [...]

Warwick Castle Adventure!

2024-06-19T17:11:01+01:0019th June, 2024|Foundation, Home, News, Year 1, Year 2|

What an amazing day Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 had at Warwick Castle!  Whilst on our adventure away from school we saw many exciting things and took part in lots of lovely activities. Starting our day off with seeing Zog, we then ventured to explore the castle. Throughout the day, we saw the [...]

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