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Wednesday 12 March 2025 Washbrook Farm Visit Check out the slide show of all the fun had by Year 1 today at Washbrook Farm.
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Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 As usual Aldrington children and staff rose to the occasion today with delightful and fun costumes for World Book Day. The children enjoyed their 'working with others' activity as a whole school in the morning, and a 'Battle of the Books' choice of story time in the afternoon. A fun day promoting the joy of reading !! Photos to follow...
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Tuesday 4 March 2025 Shrove Tuesday at Bishop Hannington We celebrated Shrove Tuesday at Bishop Hannington with a pancake race! Children showed off their running, tossing and competitive skills in our inaugural pancake race during our morning worship service. We thought about what it means to 'give something up' for Lent and listened to the Bible story of the widow who gave all she had, even though it amounted to just two copper coins. We thought about how giving often involves sacrifice, and about how we could give to help our friends, family and to live closer to God this Lent. We were also excited to award the MacMillan Cup, Kendrick Sports award, music award and the Governors' award for values. Aldrington services take place every month and we look forward to seeing you at Easter!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Let The Games Begin! On Friday 28th February, the extremely talented Year 4 children expertly performed their eagerly anticipated production of Let the Games begin to a packed school hall of proud parents and characters. The performance commenced with a lively dance routine performed by some famous game characters including Mario and Donkey Kong! The story outlined the importance of being together and not always being engrossed on mobile phones! The children of Lynx and Jaguar class did themselves proud with an all singing all dancing production! All of their hard work and effort during rehearsals certainly paid off! Well done year 4!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Victorian Day Year 1 had a very busy day on Victorian Day! They were put to work shining the brass and silver, beating the rugs, polishing the boots and helping Cook in the kitchen make cucumber sandwiches and jam scones for the lady of the house. They looked at some artefacts and learned about some inventions from Victorian times. They found out how school was different back then as well as many facts about Queen Victoria, before going on to sketch Her Majesty. They earned a penny for their hard work and ate the ‘leftovers’ from afternoon tea. They all looked fabulous and enjoyed their jam-packed day! They all looked fabulous and enjoyed their jam-packed
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Wednesday 12 February 2025 New Growth Ministries Update Last year our school community raised over £2,800 for Project Borehole, to help New Growth Ministries (NGM) to get clean water as their borehole had dried up. A lack of rainfall has affected the water levels, causing further problems. However, there has been answer to prayer and enough rain has fallen to grow a harvest of corn. Further rainfall is needed for them to benefit from the boreholes dug. Please pray.
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Monday 10 February 2025 Bedtime Stories & Teddy Bear's Picnic Reception brought their teddy bears into school on Monday as part of their Bears topic. They made honey sandwiches at Forest School and enjoyed a Teddy Bear's picnic! Reception came back to school in their pyjamas on Monday evening for our Bedtime Stories event! They listened to stories about bears and sang songs about bears too!
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Monday 10 February 2025 Astronaut Training Day 2025 On Monday in Year 5 we trained as astronauts! Children came dressed in amazing costumes with some very sparkly and impressive outfits.
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Wednesday 29 January 2025 Observatory Science Centre Trip Year 5 had a wonderful time at Herstmonceux observatory this week. They had the chance to look in two of the domes at the famous telescopes. Children took part in a robot workshop as well as experiencing all the hands-on science exhibits that the venue has to offer. The science centre is due to be closing next year so do visit if you have the chance!
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Friday 24 January 2025 Squire Training Day Year 2 are having a great time on their journey to becoming knights and helping Merlin on his quest. They started their squire training and took part in archery, jousting, swordsmanship, designing castles and learning how to fire a trebuchet. Let's hope they'll soon be ready to retrieve the Crown of Light from the Shadow Sorcerer!
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Tuesday 21 January 2025 St Peter's Art Workshop St Peter's Church Brighton came to visit Year 5 and 6 to talk about their 200 year anniversary! They spoke about 'foundations' and children thought about their 'rock', listing what's important to them and putting it inside their 'Brighton Rock' which will be displayed as part of an art insulation in St Peter's Church.
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Wednesday 15 January 2025 Waitrose Visit Today the Year 1 children had a trip to Waitrose. We found out about different fruits, vegetables, and fish which will really help our learning. Behind the shop floor in Waitrose was really exciting because we saw the recycling area, the loading bay, storage areas and much more. We loved walking into the freezing cold freezers for a brief moment and standing in the fridges. It was a great trip.
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Tuesday 14 January 2025 Space Dome We went to Brighton Girls to visit their 'Wonder dome' where we got to experience the view from space. We also had a go at coding our own robots.
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Monday 13 January 2025 Saxon Day 2025 This was hosted by a Warrior in authentic dress with extensive knowledge of the Viking & Anglo Saxon age. Repeating History help the children to form a shield wall and charge with spears and shields, grind grain into flour, try on clothing, guess the real foods of the period, touch and feel replica weaponry and armour, pick an authentic name and job and learn to write in runes, play strategy boards games plus learn lots of fun facts.
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Tuesday 7 January 2025 Stone Age Painting Year 3 have been looking at how people would paint on the cave walls in the Stone Age. They used crushed chalk and mud to make their own paints and used sticks and leaves as paint brushes to create some fantastic cave style drawings!
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Thursday 19 December 2024 Carol Services at Bishop Hannington Church This week the children have been going to Bishop Hannington Church to sing carols. Aldrington Brass and Aldrington Drummers played, the readers and prayers were read out superbly, Year 3 sang with makaton, Year 4 sang with claves. Year 5 and 6 accompanied their songs with a variety of instruments. What a talented bunch we are !!
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Thursday 12 December 2024 Reception Nativity The photos say it all, just look how gorgeous they are in their nativity costumes :-)
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Saturday 7 December 2024 Christmas Fair This years Christmas Fair was fantastic!!! The kindness and generosity of everyone involved means we have reached a staggering £5,000 towards our 'Save Our Treehouse' fundraiser. What an early Christmas present!
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Wednesday 4 December 2024 Nativity Year 1 & 2
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Friday 29 November 2024 Roman Battle !!!
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Thursday 28 November 2024 World War 2 Tea Party
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Friday 15 November 2024 Chocolate Tasting Day On CHOCOLATE DAY, Year 4 learned about the history and origin of chocolate among the Mayan people. We learned about how cocoa farmers are guaranteed a fair wage and we designed our own chocolate bars. But the best part of the day was our survey of different chocolate types, flavours, textures and smells. Unfortunately this involved sampling an inordinately large number of chocolate types. Thank-you to all the parents who found such amazing chocolate types !
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Tuesday 12 November 2024 Odd Socks Day!
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Thursday 7 November 2024 Hedgehog Man Visit
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Tuesday 22 October 2024 Harvest Festival 2024 We celebrated Harvest and as usual gathered harvest gifts to share with Hangleton and West Blatchington Foodbank, Off the Fence and Brighton and Hove City Mission – who between them support local people who need extra help at the moment and the homeless community.
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Thursday 17 October 2024 Shadow Puppets Year 3 enjoyed making shadow puppets to act out their own version of 'The King who Banned the Dark' using recycled materials and colourful lights.
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Tuesday 15 October 2024 Sustainable Energy Workshop
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Monday 14 October 2024 Pizza Making for DT
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Friday 11 October 2024 Great Fire of London!!! The children were asked to make their own Stuart house which would then be used in the re-enactment of The Great Fire of London, which took place today (safely and in the playground!!)
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