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• Friday 13 March 2026 African Safari! This week in the EYFS we have been on an African Safari! We have learnt all about the different animals that live in the Savanna and incorporated this theme into all areas of our learning.
• Friday 13 March 2026 Mother's Day Stitching
• Friday 13 March 2026 Branching databases in Y3! This term in computing, we have been learning about something called a branching database. It might sound complicated, but we discovered it is actually a bit like playing a guessing game!
• Tuesday 10 March 2026 Year 6 Hamlet Wood Forest School 6th March
• Tuesday 10 March 2026 Year 2 scavenger hunt for Book Week. Fun times during book week.
• Monday 9 March 2026 Year 3 Book Week Fun! Last week, we had an exciting and busy Book Week in Year 3, packed full of stories, creativity and lots of reading.
• Monday 9 March 2026 World Book Day 2026 World Book Week
• Friday 6 March 2026 World Book Week! Here at East Farleigh we had our first ever World Book WEEK! It was great to extend the fun of World Book Day to a whole week and the children were sure to make the most of it!
• Sunday 1 March 2026 Great Athlete Sponsored Fitness Morning! We had the best morning being motivated and helping with our well being through a visit from Courtney Orange, a commonwealth gymnast and well being guru who then after injury, turned into the most incredible dancer. Inspiring and engaging are just two words that we all felt on Tuesday!
• Friday 27 February 2026 Hamlet wood year R Despite the weather being a bit damp, it did not dampen our spirits for a fabulous forest school day in Hamlet woods.
• Friday 27 February 2026 Hamlet woods year R Despite the weather being a bit damp, it did not dampen our spirits for a fabulous forest school day in Hamlet woods. I had such a fantastic time with the children and the year R team.
• Friday 13 February 2026 Happy Lunar New Year! Our EYFS class recently enjoyed a wonderful learning experience exploring the Lunar New Year, and we are excited to share what the children discovered.
• Friday 6 February 2026 Year 2 birdsong I had a fantastic day with year 2. We were learning about common British birds we all find in our gardens, parks and school grounds. The children were really enthusiastic about this subject which was so lovely for me as I love birds! We listened to some birdsong of various birds - the challenge was to see if the children could tell what species was ‘singing'. I gave the children an identification sheet to help them with their bird watching at home. Hopefully it will come in handy. We then took some time to hear the beautiful bird song in our school garden. It was amazing because in our small space we must have heard at least 6 different types of birds.
• Friday 6 February 2026 Science Week - EYFS During Science Week, our EYFS class had a fantastic time exploring and experimenting like real scientists! The children loved taking part in class experiments including walking water, dancing popcorn and a “sink or float” investigation, where they made predictions and shared their discoveries. We also enjoyed a carousel of hands-on activities such as rainbow bubbles, string telephones, milk fireworks, DIY lava lamps and making oobleck, which sparked lots of curiosity and excitement. To make the week even more special, we had visits from the mobile zoo Jaws and Claws, where we met some amazing animals, and a travelling planetarium where we learnt all about the planets and space. It was a wonderful week full of exploration, questioning and discovery!
• Tuesday 3 February 2026 Rockin' Rocks Workshop Year 3 have had the most fantastic day today learning everything there is to know about rocks! It's been a little while since we studied Rocks in Science so we had to think all of the way back to term one to remember how igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks are made, as well as all about earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis!
• Monday 2 February 2026 The Fire of London - can we tell the story through questioning? Oracy and History meet again in explaining what happened when a baker on Baker Street acccidentally set fire to London.
• Monday 2 February 2026 Science and Oracy - Year 2 We used our Oracy skills to show our knowledge of food chains during our assessment task for our Topic of Habitats. We challenged each other in groups to use technical vocabulary and explain if we were right or wrong.
• Monday 2 February 2026 Science Week - Year 2! What amazing week of animal science, colour science, material science, experimenting with density of liquids and space science!
• Friday 30 January 2026 Leaves and Photosynthesis Forest school with year 3 was brilliant today. As it was the last day of science week here at school, we focused on some Biology. See my video for an explanation of what we did 🌿
• Friday 30 January 2026 Phonics - ow, ur, er, ear, oi, air Over the last fortnight we have finished learning our Phase 3 sounds in Phonics in the EYFS! Here are some of our lovely children showing you what sounds we have been busy learning.
• Thursday 29 January 2026 Creating Constellations in Year 5 Today as part of Science Week, we continued our space theme and researched constellations. We then had fun recreating them... enjoy our gallery!
• Friday 23 January 2026 Year 4 trees
• Friday 23 January 2026 Colour mixing Year 3 have been busy developing their artistic skills by exploring colour theory and learning how to mix colours to achieve the perfect shade. As part of their art learning, the children investigated primary and secondary colours, discovering how new colours can be created by carefully mixing different amounts of paint.
• Sunday 18 January 2026 Making myself a Monarch!
• Friday 16 January 2026 Who's been eating my porridge?! This term in the EYFS our overarching topic is 'Stories and Rhymes', the children have learnt all about traditional tales and each week we have focussed on a different story. This week was the turn of Goldilocks and the Three Bears!
• Friday 16 January 2026 Phonics - oo, oo, ar, or This week in the EYFS we have learnt 4 more of our Phase 3 sounds: oo (zoo), oo(book), ar and or! Here is a video explaining how you say these sounds and the sayings on the back of the cards to help us remember them.
• Friday 16 January 2026 Trees Whew, the rain stayed away today! We actually had sunny blue skies.
• Friday 16 January 2026 How to Get Magically Popular By Freya - Y5
• Wednesday 14 January 2026 Geographical Skills in Year 4 In Year 4 geography this week, we developed important geographical skills through our study of the River Thames and the River Medway.
• Monday 12 January 2026 Phonics - ai, ee, igh, oa In the EYFS we have now begun learning our Phase 3 phonics sounds, these consist of digraphs (sounds containing 2 letters) and trigraphs (sounds containing 3 letters). This week we began with ai, ee, igh and oa! Here are some of our wonderful class R children explaining how we say the sound and the accompanying saying to help us remember it:

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