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Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 2:50pm
Some of the children from St Basil's enjoyed a visit from the Book Bus today! They took back books we had borrowed in the past and exchanged them for new books they wanted to read! Thank you to ELS Cheshire for visiting us!
Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 12:27pm
This week in Music, we have been exploring a range of nursery rhymes and counting songs. The children have enjoyed singing and joining in with actions for 5 Little Speckled Frogs, 5 Little Peas in a Pea Pod Pressed, 5 Little Ducks and 5 Current Buns. These familiar songs have helped the children develop their counting skills whilst building confidence in singing and performing together.
We have also been learning "Mmm Mmm Frog", listening carefully to the rhythm and joining in with the repeated phrases. To accompany our singing, the children explored the güiro, learning how to create different sounds by scraping the instrument and keeping in time with the music.
Date: 5th Oct 2026 @ 12:23pm
Over the last couple of weeks, our English text has been Peace at Last by Jill Murphy. The children have thoroughly enjoyed listening to the story and have been developing their understanding by retelling the events and discussing the different things that happened to Mr Bear throughout the night. We have also enjoyed talking about our own bedtime routines and sharing how we get ready for bed at home.
Our shared reading text has been Whatever Next!, also by Jill Murphy. The children have loved joining Baby Bear on his adventure to the moon and have continued their learning through a range of provision activities. In our space role play area, the children have used small world figures and their imaginations to create their own space adventures, blasting off to the moon and exploring outer space.
To develop their creativity and fine motor skills, the children have been making funky space shapes in playdough and practising their scissor skills by carefully cutting out space-themed shapes. It has been wonderful to see the children using vocabulary from the story and incorporating their learning into their play.
We are looking forward to beginning our next shared reading text, A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson. We can't wait to discover the characters and join in with the repeating phrases as we explore another exciting story together.
CAFOD Family Fast Day Simple lunch 2nd October 2026
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 4:29pm
A group of twenty children from Key Stage 2 participated in a special 'simple lunch' today.
The children wanted to show solidarity with others around the world who are less fortunate.
They sacrificed their usual dinner for a simple meal of soup, bread, salad and fruit.
We are so proud of the maturity that they showed in making this decision and for taking part.
Rainbow Unit Yellow Class- Week 4
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 3:40pm
Yellow Class 🟡
The children in Yellow Class have had a lovely week this week. They have enjoyed singing Old McDonald with different animal puppets and some children have even been trying to join in with the words and noises. They have used ‘iced paint pops’ in creative to create abstract art pieces. We have made sensory bags for the children to explore and they loved the different textures!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Stockton, Ms Mort and Miss Caine
Rainbow Unit- Orange Class Week 4
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 2:24pm
The children in the Orange Class 🟠have had a lovely week!
Our craft activity this week involved using safe paint that we made in school. We mixed food colouring and water together and froze them! The children loved this activity!
For our sensory play, we made some sensory bags for the children to explore, this was very much enjoyed.
It is evident that the children are beginning to acknowledge each other which is so lovely to see!
We hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Abbott, Mrs Coleman, Miss Caine and Mr Waring
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 2:03pm
Today, we explored our likes and dislikes and found that we all have different ones. Some of us loved apples and some of us loved chocolate. Some of us liked polar bears and some of us disliked polar bears. We said that that was ok!
Florence said, "Jennifer doesn't like junk food and I do. That is ok, we are still friends."
Luca said, "Koby doesn't like rabbits and I do but that's ok, we're still friends."
Bodhi said, "Aurora doesn't like candy but I do. That's ok though, we are still friends."
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:57pm
This week, we explored The Lord's Prayer. We used watercolours to create our own paper chain of the prayer to have and say at home.
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 1:13pm
Year 3 had a great lesson turning some of their leaf drawings into mono prints. They used different colours and different textured/designed rollers to create their final designers.
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 12:33pm
We revised our knowledge of place value and consolidated our learning for rounding numbers today with our active maths lesson. We had to make 6 digit numbers then round then. We also had to find our number on a big number line.
Y6 Maths Non-Routine Problem Solving
Date: 2nd Oct 2026 @ 10:09am
We worked collaboratively to solve problems about number lines.
Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 1:57pm
As a part of their creation and covenant unit, year 3 have been learning about the Creation Story. Today they have made individual prayers thanking God for his creations and what they feel blessed for. We have put all of the prayers together to make a special class book.
Date: 1st Oct 2026 @ 12:39pm
In English, we have been freeze framing in role as a Jewish girl from our text. We imagined we were being lined up ready to board the train to the concentration camp and thought about what she might be thinking and feeling.
EYFS Welcome Celebration of the Word with Y6 Prayer Partners
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 9:20pm
This afternoon, Reception class went to church with their Year 6 Prayer partners, for a very special Welcome celebration with their parents.
We heard a Bible story from Isaiah which reminded us that we are each precious and loved by God.
Our Year 6 partners promised to help and support us during our first year at St Basil's.
We sang together and then a candle was lit for each of the Reception children.
We all prayed together and then Mrs Sheppard presented us with a beautiful book as a gift.
It was lovely to be joined by Mrs Cloherty from the Governors and by so many parents.
This is what some of our parents said:
"It made me feel spiritual and proud."
"It was lovely to see them being welcomed to St Basil's Community and witnessing the beginning of their educational journey."
"I enjoyed the songs and the lighting of candles."
"It was special."
"We enjoyed spending time in church."
Y2 RE - Visit to Church: Baptism
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 3:05pm
As part of our learning about God's covenant we have focused on the Sacrament of Baptism. We focused on the 4 key symbols; the white garment, the Holy water, Holy oil and the candle. When we visited church we saw the Pascal candle, the font and we ordered the key stages of the Baptism.
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 12:59pm
Today we used an illustrated map to help us to plan out Annie's journey along the water towards Niagara Falls. We had to think about how we could use fronted adverbials, rhetorical questions and exclamations to explain her feelings.
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 11:54am
In English, we worked in pairs to orally rehearse and then write sentences in passive voice about the Jewish people in our English text. They were taken from their homes and lined up at the train station.
Y2 Science - Microhabitat Observations
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 11:19am
We have learnt about habitats in our science topic. For this week's lesson we observed mini beasts that we found in micro habitats around school.
Date: 30th Sep 2026 @ 11:17am
We have had a few lessons with Mrs O for music now and have explored beat and rhythm. Today we tried to compose simple beats on the chime bars as a group
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:53pm
We enjoy reading in our 'reading retreat' area.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:50pm
Our clarinet lesson. Here we are learning to play 'Spanish Sunset'.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:29pm
We used our fine motor skills to create shapes using the Geo boards. We also had to count the number of sides the shape had.
Date: 29th Sep 2026 @ 4:26pm
In our Mastering Number sessions, we practised number bonds to five by partitioning cubes with our partner. We have been chanting our number bonds to five as we line up for dinner time! Test us on them so we can show you how great we are!
