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This week in Forest School, the Year 1 and Year 3 children learnt how to tie knots and build shelters. All children showed great teamwork skills whilst they built their shelters. The children then enjoyed their snack and sat underneath their shelters to eat them!
Our Year 5 and 6 children have been enjoying taking part in the Lego Spike Prime Project which is a project affiliated with the RAF and the Royal Navy. This week the children created their own algorithms using block programming to get the robot to move across the island whilst avoiding different obstacles! Well done Year 5 and 6!
In R.E. our Year 5 children have been learning about the festival of Holi. The children created their own Holi pictures using a range of bright colours.
National Online Safety have published some useful tips on how to stay safe on digital devices.
Happy New Year to all of our pupils, parents and staff!
We would like to wish all of our pupils, parents and staff a very Merry Christmas! Have a wonderful and restful break!
It has been a very busy term at Rushey Mead Primary School! We would like to thank all the children for working so hard over the last few weeks.
Our school Kurling team took part in a Kurling competition last week and they won! 
They are looking forward to taking part in the final in a few weeks time. Look how proud they are of their achievement! Well done children! 
Our Year 4 children enjoyed learning about Buddhism last week. Three local monks visited the school to talk to the children about meditation and Buddhism and they showed the children a range of artefacts associated with being a monk. 
Oak Class have enjoyed exploring the Autumnal weather today. The children sang the nursery rhyme 'Rain, rain go away!' 
The children have developed their understanding of the world by exploring the environment outside!
In Code Club this afternoon, the children from Years 3 and 4 enjoyed exploring and coding the microbits for the very first time!
@microbit_edu The children were able to create a piece of code that meant that the microbits were able to spell their names! Well done Code Club! 
In Reception this week the children have been building their names out of magnetic letters. The children then had to take a photo of their name using the camera app on the ipads! 
Well done Reception!
