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01/04/25

🍎 Our Well-being Ambassadors attended the Healthy Schools Festival. 🧘‍♂️ The children got the opportunity to try activities to see how important it is to take care of our health. ⭐ Pupils were rewarded for celebrating their achievement for mental health and emotional wellbeing. pic.twitter.com/dicXvbOeN0

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24/03/25

🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined in with Red Nose Day last week and supported the fantastic charity, Comic Relief. 🔴 It was great to see so many red noses around the school and we would like to thank al our parents and carers who donated to the charity. pic.twitter.com/xZUlGvxpm9

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20/03/25

🎆 Our nursery pupils got to celebrate the festival of Holi, a significant Hindu celebration of colour, life and the beginning of Spring. 🎨 The children got to enjoy playing with colour throughout the morning and it was lovely to welcome our parents into the school to join us. pic.twitter.com/5Lx3czbGa4

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17/03/25

🇬🇧🪖 We invited 'Portals to the Past' to Freshwaters, who provided our Year 6 pupils with an educational and immersive history experience through a captivating workshop that brought World War Two to life. pic.twitter.com/pARTCKhyFc

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10/03/25

📚 We had an amazing time as part of ⭐️ Pupils and Staff dressed up as their favourite hero or villain and enjoyed a day of reading and investigating different book characters. pic.twitter.com/ACBDsLZ4ZI

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03/03/25

🏃 Key Stage 2 pupils took part in a cross-country event at . 🏆 They all had a great time and enjoyed competing against the many other schools. A huge congratulations to our Year 5 girls who achieved second place. pic.twitter.com/0UZ12GvzpU

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10/02/25

🧑‍🎤 Our choir got to visit the O2 in London, where they performed at Young Voices, as part of the biggest children’s choir in the world! 🎵 The children had a fantastic day, which included rehearsals during the afternoon, before performing in front of friends and family. pic.twitter.com/35TSTOWRcd

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13/11/24

😋 It's National School Meals Week! 🪖 As part of Armistice day, pupils at were joined by Headteacher Jackie Diggle for lunch and enjoyed stew and dumplings, sausage and mash along with anzac biscuits. 🥟 pic.twitter.com/7AZ5fnBXif

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25/10/24

🍁 Hungry Caterpillars have been learning about the changes that Autumn brings, they learnt a new song with actions: All the Leaves are Falling Down. pic.twitter.com/iyYywz40M6

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07/10/24

REMINDER: We're looking forward to welcoming prospective families to view our school on Thursday 10th October 2024 between 9:30am - 10:15am. To find out more, please contact the school office: Tel: 01279 454688 Email: admin.org.uk https://t.co/Iokjyg4Rce

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16/09/24

OPEN MORNING We're looking forward to elcoming prospective families to view our school on Thursday 10th October between 9:30am - 10:15am To find out more, please contact the school office Tel: 01279 454688 Email: admin.org.uk pic.twitter.com/t6RHVsOfZ0

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13/05/24

👋 Our school council hosted to put forward their questions to a politician and learn more about his professional life. 📘 Robert kindly donated a copy of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien to our school library, which pupils are looking forward to reading. pic.twitter.com/Uuz8GigNaO

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01/05/24

🔥 Pupils in Years 2 and 3 learnt about the importance and dangers of Carbon Monoxide and how we can keep ourselves safe. 🚨 Children learnt more about checking appliances at home via an interactive workshop and carbon monoxide alarms were given out to take home. pic.twitter.com/9GV23T6ApR

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27/03/24

🗣️ Our choir represented the school at an amazing concert called 🏟️ Two of our pupils were chosen to walk across Wembley stage, proudly displaying the Freshwaters banner. 🎶 Throughout the day, the choir got to sing and dance to a range of different songs pic.twitter.com/OwNIBYPs4s

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22/03/24

Mr Newborough has been stepping up his London Marathon training! 🏃‍♂️ He's so close to hitting his fundraising target too. If you'd like to help him reach it you can do so on https://t.co/sxXBXaC3qJ pic.twitter.com/gCCsl0WRd0

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15/03/24

🔴 Pupils celebrated Red Nose Day and showed their support for the amazing charity 🫂 The children all looked amazing in our assembly this morning and recognised the importance of giving to others. pic.twitter.com/SJx0OAVCna

08/03/24

On we’re celebrating Amy Dias 🙌 Senior Lead Practitioner and Designated Safeguarding Lead at Freshwaters Primary Academy 💙#IWD2024 pic.twitter.com/zCMB4Fs8yB

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08/03/24

On we’re celebrating Amy Dias 🙌 Senior Lead Practitioner and Designated Safeguarding Lead at Freshwaters Primary Academy 💙#IWD2024 pic.twitter.com/zCMB4Fs8yB

08/03/24

On we’re celebrating Jo Mullane 🙌 Senior Lead Practitioner at Freshwaters Primary 💙#IWD2024 pic.twitter.com/jYmTzDsGI7

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08/03/24

On we’re celebrating Jo Mullane 🙌 Senior Lead Practitioner at Freshwaters Primary 💙#IWD2024 pic.twitter.com/jYmTzDsGI7

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Year 3 - Lighthouse Keeper & The Borrowers

YEAR 3 - LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS & THE BORROWERS 

CURRICULUM FOR Summer 1

As readers:

We will be reading ‘The Tin Forest’. As part of this we will be exploring vocabulary, discussing the meaning of characters’ actions and inferring meaning from events implied in the text. We will be making predictions based on what has already happened and what we know of characters’ motivations as well as summarising what we have read.

Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our geography topic of the rainforest. We will be focussing on developing fluency, retrieving information and making links to our geography learning about the rainforest alongside developing our inference and vocabulary skills.

Key vocabulary: retrieval, vocabulary, inference, summarise, rainforest, emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor, climate, deforestation

 

As writers:

We will be exploring how to write an effective fable inspired scene description using expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials in order to answer the Big Question: “How can a junk-land become a wonderland?” We will also be writing a persuasive letter linked to our geography topic of the rainforest to answer the Big Question “What are the effects of deforestation?” and developing our use and understanding of persuasive devices such as emotive language, balanced arguments and rhetorical questions

Key vocabulary: expanded noun phrase, fronted adverbial, rhetorical question, emotive language, deforestation, climate change, persuasion

 

As mathematicians:

We will be developing our understanding of fractions including adding and subtracting fractions. We will also be looking at the value of different denominations of money, how to add amounts to £1, converting between pounds and pence as well as adding and subtracting money. We will then study how many minutes there are between each number on an analogue clock and methods we can use to find the number of minutes past or to the hour.

Key vocabulary: fraction, numerator, denominator, part, whole, pounds, pence, change, exchange, Roman Numerals, minutes, intervals, hours

 

As scientists:

We will be learning about plants and their life cycles. We will be looking at the importance of the roots and their job. We will explore how water is transported within plants, the purpose of leaves and flowers in flowering plants’ life cycles, seed dispersal and the structure of seeds.

Key vocabulary: roots, nutrients, minerals, soil, absorb, stem, transport, photosynthesis, sunlight, energy, pollination, seed, pollen

 

As geographers:

We will be studying the rainforests. We will be looking at where rainforests are located, what the layers of the rainforest are and the features of each, the effects of deforestation, what causes the climate in a rainforest and how life in the rainforest differs to our own.

Key vocabulary: rainforest, dense, equator, climate, vegetation, species, emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor, deforestation, logging, mining, endangered, humid, rainfall

As artists:

We will be looking at the work of Wassily Kandinksy and creating our own mixed media collages inspired by his work and our story ‘The Tin Forest’.

Key vocabulary: abstract art, composition, improvisation, geometry, layering, linework, colour theory, synaesthesia, emotion

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