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Please see pictures below of some of Year Four's during their recent trip to Juniper Hall!
Year Four Trip to Juniper Hall June 2025
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The winners of the first half of the Summer Term's Attendance Raffle were Charlotte (Maple) and Dawik (Redwood). Well 
Borough Sports Day
On Wednesday 4th June eight children from Year Six travelled to St Mary’s University to take part in the Richmond Primary Schools’ Borough Sports competition. Thirty- seven primary schools across the borough took part with each athlete doing a 600m distance run, a 75m sprint, a Vortex Howler Throw and a Standing Long Jump. Each performance scored points for their time or distance which contributed to individual and team scores.
The Buckingham athletes had an amazing day. Kayden commented “The 600m is very easy if you practise. It doesn’t matter if you come last or first, as long as you finish the race. We just believed, persevered and succeeded!” Parker added “It was brilliant, the 600m is easier than you think, so we just tried our best.”
Catherine said “It was fun and very competitive, but we used some of the school values like determination, courage and positivity to stay focused.”
Eshna said “We all believed and persevered and did the activities with great determination. Like anything, if you practise, you become better and you might just win a medal!”
The team were amazingly successful and received many compliments from other teachers attending the competition about how fast they were. The biggest successes of the day were Parker receiving the gold medal for being the fastest boy sprinter in the whole competition and Leo and Parker being invited to compete in the Borough Sports Final for sprints against the fastest sprinters of the borough, later this month.
Well done to Buckingham Athletics Team; Kayden J, Leo, Taran, Parker, Carletta, Eshna, Alexis and Catherine. We are very proud of you.
Nursery
In Nursery, the children have been busy exploring all about oral health. We have had lots of fun and engaging activities that helped the children understand the importance of looking after their teeth. They enjoyed counting teeth, lear
The children have also been busy exploring about 2D and 3D shapes. They explored shapes through games, circle time, and hands-on activities. They loved building with blocks and finding shapes around the classroom. As part of our daily learning, the children have been recognising numbers, counting objects, and practising writing their names.
Reception
In Reception, we have been taking an exciting journey to India! We have loved learning all about this vibrant country—exploring its culture, traditions and geography. We discussed the similarities and differences between our country and India.
We have been learning Bollywood dancing, practising yoga poses and even learnt some Hindi words. We have been using our phonics skills to write interesting facts about India, discovering fascinating details about its landmarks, food, festivals and more.
We will soon be reading a very interesting traditional tale from India called ‘No Dinner’ and continue to develop our creativity, imagination and multicultural learning!
Year One
In the last fortnight, the Year One children have been preparing for the Phonics Screening Check. Well done for all their hard work on word reading this year and for your support at home. Phonics Check results will be included in the end of year school report.
In English, we have been reading ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak. The children have been stepping into Max’s shoes by writing a diary entry and making wonderful salt dough models of their ‘Wild Thing’.
In Science, we have just finished revising Seasonal Change and next week we move onto plants. The children will be planting some greenery this term. The focus will be for the children to see first hand the basics of plant growth, as well as what plants need to survive and how they grow from seeds.
Some of the Year One children enjoyed the Year Five Play Leaders attending their outdoor PE lesson this week. It was wonderful to see them engaging with one another.
The final history unit of the year is ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’. To introduce the area of study, we sequenced the events of the tragedy by creating a human timeline with pictures in the field. The children showed great curiosity during this session, and it was a delight to see their interest in the topic.
In P.E. lessons the children in Year Three have been learning how to play cricket. They have focused on batting, bowling and fielding skills as well as learning the rules of the game. For the last lesson of cricket, both classes came together to play small games and put their skills into practice. They had lots of fun playing.
Year Four
In Art, Year Four made a Viking brooch out of clay and painted it with metallic paint.
Year Five
Oak Class Assembly
Today, Oak Class proudly presented their assembly on Computers and Coding. They took us on a whistle stop tour of the history of computers and coding and did some amazing singing and performing. It was really impressive to see how they had even coded their own Microbits to help them with a song!
Our new unit in P.E. is Athletics, where we will be focusing on the core skills of running, jumping and throwing. We began by practising long distance running, working hard to build up our stamina and pace.
Year Six
Year Six have been extremely fortunate this week, with two trips planned in one week! In our classes we visited Orleans House Gallery, where we took part in a workshop looking at creating 2D drawings and how these can be turned into 3D sculptures. To see the gallery was an amazing experience as the Octagon room is extremely unique as it gets its name from the shape of the room and it overlooks beautiful views of the river and surrounding grounds. We were amazed by its golden chandelier and black and white flooring. At the moment there is an exhibition which looks at aspects of nature and deforestation. There were so many different types of artwork to look at from illuminous photography to a large sundial sculpture. The colours, shapes and textures were amazing and with every glance a new shape could be found within it. After our tour of the exhibition and gallery space, we went back to the workshop to create our own pieces of artwork. Using the sketches and inspiration that we had gathered, we used different methods to draw things found in nature such as shells, pine cones and feathers. We used graphite, highlighters and even electrical tape to draw with! Who would have thought that you can create a 3D piece by using tape! Finally we used wire to create shapes and then attached them to a plinth with tape. We all left having the skills to turn a 2D piece of artwork into a 3D one!
