N SQUIRRELS -Rachel & Rosie for painting beautiful pictures of a bunch of flowers. They looked carefully at the flowers and painted different shapes. These paintings will be entered into the Pyrford Village Show exhibition.

R BEECH - Nico who always shows excellent behaviour for learning. He always listens carefully on the carpet and always tries his best in all he does. Keep doing great learning Nico!

R HAZEL - Margot & Sophia who both produced beautiful drawings and carefully presented writing about our visit to the church during the Week of Prayer. Their work showed great care, effort and attention to detail. Well done!

1 OAK - Keyaan who is great at following our school rule of being ready. He is always ready for his learning and we have been so impressed this week, particularly with his wonderful phonics and his reading. Thank you Keyaan, we are so proud of you!

1 PINE - Jacob This week Year 1 have been working hard on retelling the story of our class book Leaf. Jacob wrote a fantastic recount, paying close attention to his handwriting and punctuation. He used great adjectives to describe the setting and thought carefully about his sounds. Well done Jacob, keep up the great work!

2 CEDAR - Emilia, Mason & Talia for brilliant work in DT. They created excellent tubes and prisms using nets.

2 HAWTHORN - Max for working really well with his partner to make 3D shapes in our DT session. He used the scoring technique to make folding card easier. He impressed Mrs Porter with his resilience and how he adapted his first attempt to improve the stability of his cube. Well done Max!

3 ELM - Maisy This week in English we have been learning about how to describe the weather using personification. Maisy painted this fabulous picture of a ship in a storm and wrote excellent descriptive sentences. Wonderful work Maisy!

3 MAPLE - Ali for demonstrating great resilience when learning to tell the time. He made the time shown on each picture on a clock with moveable hands and counted in fives to find out how many minutes past the hour it was. We were really impressed with how well he understood this by the end of the lesson. Well done Ali for persevering!

4 ALDER - Luca This week Year 4 have been learning about angles in Maths. Luca worked exceptionally hard with his partner, discussing, comparing and completing the challenges. He produced some fantastic work!

4 LARCH - Esmee for the amazing cushion she designed and made. She worked so carefully on it, showing great attention to detail. Well done Esmee!

5 ROWAN - Mahenoor for producing a wonderfully informative piece of work on the history of the Shah Jahan Mosque as part of our local history unit. She took great care in researching and presenting her information clearly and thoughtfully and her beautiful illustration of the mosque added a lovely creative touch to her work. Brilliant work Mahenoor!

5 WILLOW - Ali Congratulations to Ali for his brilliant work in English. He carefully chose adverbs to build cohesion, linking it with the story of Marion Wallace Dunlop and the Suffragettes. His thoughtful use of language showed a strong understanding both of our grammar focus and historical context. Well done!

 6 ASPEN -  Ben for his excellent ability in Maths. He has wowed us with his speed at problem solving all year!

6 HOLLY - Ben for writing an excellent biography of the famous children’s author, Enid Blyton. It was a pleasure to see the care and thought he put into his work. His use of subheadings and paragraphs helped to organise his ideas clearly, while his range of punctuation made his writing interesting, informative and easy to read. Mrs Bull was particularly impressed with the pride he took in presenting his work so neatly and carefully. He should be very proud of this achievement. A super biography Ben!

6 LAUREL - Martin  for a fabulous piece of writing. He wrote an excellent biography of the famous children’s author, David Walliams. He used subheadings and paragraphs to organise the information that he researched, in addition to using  a wide range of punctuation. Once he had finished, he carefully edited and corrected his work. Well done Martin - keep up the great work!