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As a Thinking School, we always encourage children to become independent, articulate, creative and reflective thinkers and this week children have continued to show fantastic thinking skills in their learning across the curriculum. Children in Year 5 have been making surrealist sculptures and enjoyed showing their creative designs to me and explaining their thinking. I also heard all about the 'Time Travel' topic in Year 5 where we had an engaging discussion about the concept of time travel. In Year 1, I saw children captivated by their science investigations and able to apply the knowledge they had learnt to their thinking.

This week we have continued to have safety workshops in Year 4 and Year 5. Children have learnt more about independent travel and how to ensure safety when crossing roads, for example using a pelican crossing ensuring they have the skills they need. It has been a hive of activity and learning across the school. In EYFS children have been keen to share their maths' learning this week and have learnt about capacity and weight including what is heavier and lighter. They also enjoyed a forest school session and time reading with parents and carers.

This week children at New Horizons have been working really hard to demonstrate the values of respect, responsibility and kindness as well as aspire, challenge and achieve. In particular I have noticed children working hard to improve their writing. Year 2 have worked hard on writing diary entries and Year 6 have also produced excellent writing as well as geographical map work.

Welcome back to Term 3 and Happy New Year ! We have had an excellent first week back even though it has been cold and children have in particular enjoyed the increase in PE lessons. I know there has been much excitement about that in many classes. Please do ensure your child has their PE kit in school so they can access the PE lessons easily.

What an amazing final week of term we have had at New Horizons. I would firstly like to thank the EYFS team for a fantastic performance of the Nativity. Children sang their songs beautifully and it was lovely to see them acting confidently on the stage in all their costumes.

The New Horizons 'Twelve Days of Christmas' is fully underway. Children enjoyed wearing Christmas jumpers on Thursday as well as visiting St. Stephen's Church for our Christmas services with Father Barry. Thank you to the children who read their readings so well and we all enjoyed singing Christmas songs. We also saw the snowflakes hanging in the Church that we contributed to making. Children also learnt about advent and helped to light the Advent candle.