In Ellen MacArthur Class, we have continued to work hard and learn well. I have been immensely proud of the children's effort and progress in all areas. More and more of the class are getting top marks in our times-tables practices, and their writing moves from strength to strength, with them finishing and editing their alternative fairy stories this week. They have really thought about their toolkits to make gripping openings and interesting and satisfying endings for them.

The highlight of the week has definitely been our trip to the Natural History Museum in London. We went there with St Francis Academy as part of our science unit to investigate different teeth of animals extinct and extant (still living today) and saw some amazing examples. We used our learning from class to work out whether the teeth belonged to carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.

Of course we made the most of our visit to explore other area of the museum too. We particularly enjoyed the dinosaur exhibits, complete with an animatronic T-Rex! Other highlights included the whale skeletons and being in a recreation of an earthquake in Japan.

It was an excellent experience for us all - even taking a boat to the mainland is exciting if, like me, you don’t do it very often. I know the children all thoroughly enjoyed themselves, even if they were pretty tired by the end of that long day!

Thank you to Mrs Cooke and Miss McGimpsey for helping to make the trip so successful. I would also like to praise the children for continuing to display the exemplary behaviour for which they are becoming well known.