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• Year 3 Life Skills

  Mon 11 May 2026 Mrs Handy

  This term, for our life skills session, year 3 have been exploring the wider world, which includes catching a train, looking at train times, using tickets. Also, ensuring safety around trains, getting on and off safely. We also combined this with our geography topic, which is looking at settlements, towns and human and physical features. We completed some fieldwork in Sittingbourne, comparing places in the town today with the 1960s.

  

• Talk Day

  Mon 27 Apr 2026 Mrs Handy

  We began our term with a Talk Day, where the children focus on developing their oracy skills. Here is a summary of yesterday’s year group activities: In Year 1, the children learnt about the life cycle of plants, and explored the word “flower” . They also looked at human and physical features in Geography.

  In Year 2, the children looked at picture clues from a story book and tried to predict what the story would be about.

  In Year 3, In DT, the children discussed different types of castles: Which of these castles looks the strongest or weakest? Stable or unstable? Why? Who would use, make or live in this castle? Why? Are these man-made or natural structures? Then, they discussed all of the important features of a castle and what their purpose was, drawing their own castles and labelling it’s features.

  In Year 4, they looked at concept cartoon about a scene from our new story, Gorilla in English. They had to decide which person they agreed with. The picture was of a girl slumped in a dark room watching TV. We also discussed using key words to 'Talk like a writer ' when giving answers to questions.

  In Year 5, they looked at the concept cartoon, and working in groups they discussed which child they agreed with.

  In Year 6, they focused on their term text, by exploring the main character of Francis.

  

• Spring Picture Competition

  Tue 21 Apr 2026 Mrs Handy

  Well done to all the children who entered the Spring competition.

  We had so many lovely entries.

  Here are just some of the entries.

  

• Year 3 Roman Workshop

  Fri 27 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  Well, we had a great day on Monday as Romans! 🏛️

   

  We learnt so much whilst having so much fun!

  We got hands on with artefacts, tried Roman food, learnt Roman games, learnt about Roman soldier’s armour and even marched in formation and had a battle of the classes!

   

  We hope all the children enjoyed themselves and have memories to last them a long time!

  

• Year 5 Turner Gallery Visit

  Fri 27 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  Year 5 went to the Turner Gallery in Margate. Not only were they able to follow their life skills journey by catching the train, they also got the opportunity to see a JMW Turner painting, Bridget Riley's artwork, and enjoy some time creating their own masterpieces!

  

• Royal Ballet and Opera

  Thu 26 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  Year 5 participated in the Royal Ballet & Opera performance of Hansel and Gretel. They have been working extremely hard to learn their songs and their staging. Their performance was spectacular and they should all be very proud of themselves.

  

• Mothers Day Breakfast

  Mon 16 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  Thank you to those who attended our Mother ' s day breakfast. We hope you had a lovely time

  

• Science Week

  Mon 16 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  During Science Week the pupils at Rose Street enjoyed a variety of activities. On Monday and Wednesday, children participated in the Science Gadget Show where they could purchase scientific toys, games and gadgets. Throughout the week, each class investigated a different scientific question which was generated by the pupils. On Friday, in classrooms, pupils took part in an online lesson with a real scientist, leading to another investigation. Later in the day, parents were invited into school, so that children could share with them their learning.

  

• Storytelling Workshops

  Tue 10 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  At the start of the week, the children participated in storytelling workshops hosted by the West End in Schools company. These were fantastic, fun and fast-paced and the children had a great time exploring storytelling and using their imaginations!

  

• World Book Day

  Tue 10 Mar 2026 Mrs Handy

  This year at Rose Street we celebrated the World Book Day 2026 theme of 'reading for pleasure'. The children were invited to bring in their favourite books to share with their peers. We had so many wonderful books brought into school and the children were so excited to share them. It was so lovely to hear them talk so confidently about their books and explain why their book was special to them. At the start of the week, the children also participated in storytelling workshops hosted by the West End in Schools company. These were fantastic, fun and fast-paced and the children had a great time exploring storytelling and using their imaginations!