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🏫 Year 4 Step Back in Time to Victorian School! 📚 Our Year 4 children had a fantastic time visiting Sevington Victorian School last week, where they travelled back in time to experience what life was like for a Victorian schoolchild! Dressed for the occasion, the children fully immersed themselves in a Victorian school day, tackling maths using old money, practising their handwriting with ink pens and blotting paper, and reading aloud with their teacher. 📖 They also had the opportunity to try their hand at traditional Victorian activities, including making beeswax candles and creating brass rubbings, as well as enjoying some time playing with Victorian toys. 🕯 The day ended with a lesson on the rather frightening 'Articles of Correction', where the children discovered the different punishments Victorian schoolchildren might have faced! 😲 We're sure they were relieved to return to their usual classrooms at Lainesmead! Both classes thoroughly enjoyed their visits, and what a brilliant way to bring their history learning to life! 💚 Here are some photos of our Victorian schoolchildren in action! 📸

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📚 Our Book Fair is back today! 📚 We look forward to welcoming more of our families to our Book Fair today from 1:40pm in the school hall! A huge thank you to everyone who came along yesterday and supported us. 💚 We've already made a fantastic start towards earning rewards that we can spend on even more lovely books for our school! 📖 Every book purchased helps us build up those rewards, so not only are you encouraging a love of reading at home, you're also helping us add to the books our children can enjoy at Lainesmead! 💳 Cash and card payments accepted. We hope to see lots more of you this afternoon! 😊📚

📚🌟 Today, our whole school took part in Take 10 to Read, joining thousands of children and adults across the country in an attempt to break the world record for the most people reading at the same time! 🌍📖 KS1 heard a fantastic reading of Super Uma by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, followed by a draw-along activity with illustrator Nakul P. KS2 spent time with Frank Cottrell-Boyce as he read from The Blockbusters! and explored themes including cinema and culture. It was wonderful to see everyone pause, pick up a book and enjoy the magic of reading together. Well done to all of our fantastic readers!

🎭🎨 An Arts MAD Day to Remember! 🎶💃 Australia and New Zealand Classes had a fantastic time visiting Lawn Manor Academy for their Arts MAD Day! The children enjoyed a wonderful variety of creative activities, from learning and performing a dance sequence to becoming detectives in a drama challenge, searching for clues and evidence! 🔎 They also had the opportunity to explore their musical and artistic talents through music and sketching activities. 🎵 What a lovely opportunity for our children to try something different, express their creativity and enjoy new experiences beyond the classroom! A huge thank you to Mrs Benson and all the staff at Lawn Manor Academy for welcoming our children and putting on such an enjoyable day. 💚 Here are some photos of the children enjoying their day! 📸