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This week in nursery we have been learning about rainbow colours. 

🥕Harvest Assembly👩🏽‍🌾  Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land.

This immersive experience was a high point to end our topic on Africa.

Our three classes had a great workshop last Monday, practising some traditional call and response dance moves with their tutors from Ghana.

Year 5 have been INCREDIBLY busy this week! At the start of the week, we set off to Fulham Palace to carry out some investigative work on the river Thames and then in the middle of the week, we were lucky enough to take part in a virtual author visit with Jim Beckett, who shared his writing tips with the children.

Our children had a fantastic day at the Horniman Museum.

What a great time our children had, deepening their understanding of African culture at the Horniman museum.

Y5 have had a fantastic day on their school trip today!

As you know, school council have been working incredibly hard this year to fundraise in order to buy new equipment for the bottom playground.

Year 5 have been incredibly busy over the last few weeks and have been working diligently to show off their learning powers: they have used our imagination muscles in Art week, persevered in their writing lessons to create a formal report and even used their revising skills to improve their knowledge of fractions.

In nursery last week, the children were reading The Gingerbread Man.

Year 3 have been inspired by the art of both Frida Kahlo’s to create our self-portraits and Vincent van Gogh’s impressionist style to create beautiful seascapes as a backdrop to our poems.

This half-term we are working hard to develop our oracy skills; we have been thinking about oracy carefully and have decided that good listening skills are a prerequisite to good speaking skills.

We’ve had a great week at Cypress Lower School.  Children in Reception have been reading ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson this week and have enjoyed re-telling the story. 

The children in Little Cypress have had another fun-packed week, despite the sometimes rather uninspiring weather!

We arrived at Nursery on Monday morning this week to find some mysterious foot prints on the carpet! 

Following the success of the Whitehorse Year 5 and 6 Indoor Athletics Team at the qualifying event in December, the team attended the finals event on Wednesday to compete against the other qualifying schools. 

Y5 have had a superb day today! The day didn’t start off as we had planned as we have had to reschedule our workshop, but that didn’t stop the children having lots of of Viking fun!

Happy New Year to all of our Cypress families!  We hope you have had a restful holiday.