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Year 3

DSAT Times Tables Rockstars Tournament

By Maths, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Our children took part in a KS2 Times Tables Rock Stars Tournament in May.

— St. Alban’s CofE finished 1st out of 12 schools from DSAT.

— Out of 60 class taking part, our Y4s came 2nd overall.

— Out of 1035 children participating, three of our pupils made it into the top 10: Shivraj (2nd), Dominic B 7th and Mikey M 8th. Noah K placed 21st, Myles F 41st, Grayson K 46th and Isla C 50th.

 

The effort and commitment from our KS2 children is something we are incredibly proud of. As the results are based on average scores for each pupil, every child who took part contributed to our success.

The photos show the award ceremony where the top 10 MVPs (Most Valuable Players) received their awards and the DSAT trophy was presented. It now sits proudly on display in the school reception.

23/06/2025
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Y3 Author Visit

By Reading, Year 3

The Year 3 children have a very special visitor today, the author and illustrator, Liz Million as part of the Children’s Capital of Culture 2025 Festival.

You can find more about the Children’s Capital of Culture 2025 Festival here: https://www.childrenscapitalofculture.co.uk/

You can find more about Liz Million here: https://lizmillion.com/

 

05/06/2025
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School Pantomime Trip

By Christmas, Community, Drama, FS2, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Today was our annual trip to Rotherham Civic Theatre to watch this year’s pantomime: Robin Hood. The children were all fantastic and had a wonderful time. 

 

28/11/2024
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Parent Workshop in Year 3

By Art, Community, Year 3

Year 3 were delighted to welcome parents into school yesterday to take part in our art unit on collography. Pupils designed an image of an Ancient Greek mythical creature, transferred it onto cardboard and cut it out. We used ribbed paper and hole punches to add texture, ready to be printed using acylic paints.

29/11/2023
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Whole school Geography Fieldwork month!

By FS2, Geography, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

October was “Geography fieldwork month” in St.Alban’s. Fieldwork is where you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself. Over the last month, our students have had the opportunity to explore the local area and learn in a more practical, hands-on way in geography.

Each class was given a different enquiry question that they had to try and answer using a variety of progressive fieldwork skills. Children across school completed maps, surveys, time sampling, tallys, pictograms and digital mapping linked to their enquiry question. Children then used the information that they had gathered to draw their own conclusions.

Today, each class had the opportunity to present their findings to the rest of the school. Children were very adept at explaining what they did and what they found out. Well done St.Alban’s- we are all geographers!

24/11/2023
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Handwriting Parent Workshop

By English, Letters to Parents, Newsletter, Writing, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

On Thursday 16th November, we will be hosting a parent workshop explaining how we teach handwriting at St Alban’s.

From the first day of school, we pay particular attention to good writing habits. By the end of the session you will know what we mean by BBC, TNT and lots of other useful tips.

We look forward to welcoming you in the school hall at 2:15pm. Grandparents are also welcome.

Thank you,

Mrs Gurner

10/11/2023
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Bible Presentation

By Collective worship, Community, Religious Education, Year 2, Year 3

Today Huw Thomas from the Diocese of Sheffield, presented Bibles to year 2 and 3 children at St Alban’s Church.

Children in year 2 were presented with a picture bible that they will take home at the end of key stage one.

Children are presented with a different Bible when they move in to the juniors (year 3). This Bible stays with the children as they move classes and they take it home when they leave St Alban’s.

How will we use the Bibles?
Children use their Bibles in collective worship, religious education and engage with it weekly in class.

It was lovely to see so many parents, grandparents and friends at the service- the perfect finish to a busy week.

Thank you,

Mrs Gurner

10/11/2023
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Igneous Chocolate Chips

By Science, Year 3

Today in science, year 3 learnt about igneous rocks.

We used white and milk chocolate chips to show rocks in the ground. We put the chips into a bowl and put the bowl into hot water. This was like rocks being melted at the earth’s core.

The chips melted and blended together. This showed the minerals had melted. We poured the melted chocolate out which was like the molten rock coming out from inside the earth.

The molten rock solidifies and forms a new rock, called igneous rock.

 

11/10/2023
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