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Puppet Show

Filming a puppet show, using hand made puppets

Visiting Growhampton at the University

Cutting out the material

Sewing Bags

Planting seeds

Making Greenhouses

This Bridge looks very strong

Building Bridges for DT Day

Visit to Wisley Gardens

Visit to Wisley

Visit to Wisley

Reception visit to the Natural History Museum

All dressed up as their favourite book character

World Book Day

Visit to the London Museums

Visit from the police

Nursery Assembly

Learning about minibeasts

Making Knights for our Castle project in the nursery

Litter Picking with Plogolution

Playing on the trim trail

Visit from Fleur the MP on World Book Day

Growing seeds

Teeth Inspection

Collecting for Children in need

Sharing Books

Making food for the Birds

Visit to the temple

Visit to the temple

Visit to the temple

Playtime

Visiting Author for World Book Day

Reception Assembly

Reception Assembly

Red Nose Day Assembly

Red Nose Day Assembly

Art Club

Sharing a book

Year 3 visited the British Museum

Sculpting

Making and designing sandwiches in Year 1

Making Sculptures

Play dough in Reception

More Reading!

Reading

Painting in Nursery

The Tiger who Came to Tea

Making Owls

Nursery Explorers

Reception are learning about Castles

Litter Picking with Plogolution

Year1 Really enjoyed their litter picking afternoon

Litter Picking with Plogolution

Chinese Lanterns for Chinese New Year

Making Jellyfish

Studying the Labour of Hercules

Visit by Freshwater Theatre Group

Learning about Electricity

Science

Dinosaur

Messy Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Fossils

Dinosaur fossils

Looking for Dinosaurs as part of their dinosaur project

Being Creative

Lots to climb

Outside play in early years

Building in Early Years

Freshwater Theatre visited the school

Year 5 made Orrery's for DT day

Showing work in assembly

Reading in our Library

Year 1 visited Roehampton Church

Class Assemblies are a highlight each week

Painting

Art

Building

Yeat 1 and 2 made decorations for Christmas Trees displayed with Alton Regenerate

Diwali

Basketball

Messy Play for Fireworks

Christmas Jumper Day

Decorating the Christmas Tree on Christmas Jumper Day

Knight in full armour

The lunchtime salad bar

Enjoying being on top table for lunch

Reception made Knights for their Castle Project

Building in early years

Outside play

We have a lovely library with lots of books

Learning cutting skills

Making Owls in Early Years

Learning PE Skills

Power to Connect donated laptops for the children to support learning at home

Leaf Pictures

Climbing Trees

Richmond Park is so near and it is lovely to visit

Climbing

Richmond Park

Visit to Richmond Park

Exploring Space

Early years are learning to sort

We have received lots of new computers from the government

Looking at space

At the science museum

Visit to the science museum

Learning about teeth

Playing Tennis with Rackets Cubed

Children get to choose who will be on top table each week

The children have now resumed our regular trips out

Year 2 are reading the Twits

Planting a wildflower meadow

Looking for minibeasts

The children enjoy welly walks in the grounds

The raffle was very well supported

Father Christmas came to the Winter Fair

Year 2 have been learning about The Great Fire of London

Archery at Sayers Croft

Enjoying a camp fire

They learnt to work as part of a team

At Sayers Croft they learnt to light fires with flints

Year 5 & 6 went to Sayers Croft

The children made poppies for remembrance

Year 2 have been learning about the Great Fire of London

Hunting for mini beasts in the bushes

Early Years really enjoy their welly walks on the school field

Welly Walks

Sand Play

Sorting in Reception

Climbing trees in Richmond Park

Building in the nursery

Power to Connect have donated some laptops for the children

It's lovely to be back in the lunch hall

Kennings

Reception have enjoyed making fireworks

The children have been celebrating Diwali

Learning to count

Every week a child is chosen for Top Table

Maths

Year 4 children have been learning how to look after their teeth

The children enjoyed reading in the book corner

The children enjoyed a walk in the local area

The children were interviewed by the BBC at the Lawn Tennis Association with Rackets Cubed

The children were very excited to be attending the LTA with Rackets Cubed

Playing tennis at The LTA with Rackets Cubed

Early years enjoy outdoor play

We made puppets for DT Day

The end of year play by Y6 was Robin Hood

Planting seeds

The whole school enjoyed planting seeds for Roehampton community week

Leaf collecting

Early years enjoy dressing up

Y3 made pizza for DT day

Y2 were inspired by Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

RB2 created pictures inspired by Banksy

Creating a picture to celebrate the community

Local schools were asked to create a picture to celebrate the Roehampton Community which was exhibited to the whole community for Roehampton week

cooking skills

Making a gingerbread house

Seeing what will build the tallest tower

Bikeability

Early years have been given balancing bikes to use

Winning the race

Sports day

DT Day Making an alarm

horses at the bottom of our field

Tree Art

the trim trail gets lots of use at playtimes

the children enjoy forest school

children had to complete a chart with how many hours of reading they had achieved at Easter

children have been taking part in the reading challenge - well done!

The nursery have recently been given lots of super dressing up clothes

RB2 have been creating cave pictures

Another favourite book is the hungry caterpillar

sand play is always popular

Nursery's theme this half term is pirates, they have enjoyed dressing up and making maps to find the buried treasure

RB3's gingerbread house was amazing!

These early years children will soon take over the office

Now that summer has come they can play on the big field

children have a lovely time playing on the trim trailail

Year 6 held a bake off challenge making food from around the world. This pizza with homemade base was a winner.

Year 5's DT challenge was to design and make a load bearing bridge

Year 4 sewed some pencil cases and added buttons to decorate

Year 3 designed and tested some greenhouses

Reception learnt to sew on Binca

Nursery made a fruit salad for DT Day

Super powers for Year 6

Even the Queen joined in

The office was especially supercharged

We dressed as superheroes for Red Nose day

For our excellent learner challenge children were asked to make the tallest structure out of straws.

DT Day making greenhouses

Some very friendly and beautiful macaws chose to visit our grounds

We had some surprise visitors at school today.

Bat man made an appearance for Red Nose day

The children dressed in red or wore superhero outfits to raise money for red nose day

Red Nose Day Superhero

World Book Day

What book inspired this picture do you think,?

World Book Day

Year 2 all loved dressing up for the day

World Book Day

Year 2 have been reading Mae among The Stars and have been very inspired by her life

World Book Day

Who do you think this reception child has dressed up as?

World Book Day

Mrs. Gibbs and Miss Morris are clearly Harry Potter fans - Do you think they actually went to Hogwarts?

World Book Day

Miss Smith became Queen of Hearts for the Day

World Book Day

Which book do you think has been created here?

World Book Day

Everyone enjoyed reading books on world book day

World Book Day

Year one created pictures of their favourite books

Year 4 have been studying Shackleton's Journey

Oranges in no mans Land by Year 5

Year 2 have been reading Mae among the Stars

Early years have been reading The Rainbow Fish

Rainbow Fish

The Hungry Caterpillar

This is a beautiful butterfly

Reception have been making animals

Tree Art

What amazing vases

Vases

We all had such fun in the snow

Snow Day

The children made poppies for Poppy Day

Year 1 have been learning tennis with Rackets Cubed

Our children were extremely lucky when Rackets Cubed donated Chelsea shirts for them to wear.

Roehampton Library have lent the school lots of books for the children to complete the autumn reading challenge

Nursery have been reading the book Shark in the Park by Nick Sherratt and making their own sharks

Year 6 used a world war 2 recipe to make very tasty carrot cakes

Nursery have been making very yummy biscuits

Year 4 have been looking at solids and liquids using cornflour

Nursery children made lassi and lanterns for Divali

Cutting up the fruit for the lassi

Year 6 have been using a variety of food to represent blood

The children were asked to draw postcards of what made them happy during lockdown

The children have been making bug houses to see what bugs we have in school

RB2 have been learning about Banksy and creating their own images

Our early years children have been joined by two new members of the class, who will help with phonics.

They are settling in well

and making lots of friends

Wandsworth and Battersea Arts Centre have very kindly donated bags full of art equipment to the children

The school is looking amazing now that all the trees are showing their autumn colours

Reception are learning about houses and homes

Year 3 are reading and writing about 'Into the Forest'

Everyone was so kind and generous donating food to the local foodbank for harvest

Thank you to everyone who donated for the harvest festival

Writing in Year 1

Discovering fossils in Year 6

Counting in tens in RB1

Learning about skeletons in RB2

Joan Miro inspired paintings

Forest Fun in Early Years

The Blitz

Our children were lucky enough to have their picture taken by artist Steve McQueen and exhibited in the Tate Modern - here they are visiting it