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Christmas is really beginning to get a grip at Atwood and this week we finished the week with everyone in Christmas jumpers for their Christmas lunch. 

Our wonderful kitchen staff prepared a delicious feast for all of the children and staff today.

Over the last few weeks, our children have been working very hard to prepare for their Christmas performances.

In Gold class, we have been learning all about colours. We have looked at and talked about the colours in the rainbow and investigated the colours of different objects.

Two of our Year 1 classes enjoyed a day packed with activities at the Science Museum.

What great fun our Year 1 classes had on their day at the Science Museum!

Our YR1 classes had a fabulous time this week on their Moon immersion day.

Road Safety Week We have been focusing on Road Safety this week at Cypress and the children have enjoyed learning more about keeping safe on our roads.

Our YR1 classes had a fabulous time today on their Moon immersion day.

Our Trust Staff Meeting at Cypress on Handwriting in the Early Years, for our Early Years and Year 1 practitioners, was a fantastic opportunity for the adults to have some fun, as well as learning some important pedagogy and practical ideas to teach this crucial life skill.

On Monday, we introduced our Anti-Bulling / Friendship Week by wearing odd socks to school and sharing what it means to be a good friend in our whole school assembly.

This week we have been learning about Armistice Day and Remembrance in our school.

We are always very interested in what parents tell us via the parental questionnaire that we undertake each year. 

There have been sixty one Kings and Queens of England in the last 1200 years but none has been monarch longer than Queen Elizabeth II, who died yesterday at the age of 96. 

Works update During lockdown our landscape gardeners were busy outside at Cypress Lower continuing the work to make our woodland more accessible and useable for outdoor education.