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Thursday 8 May 2025 Year 5 Plants and Seeds As part of their science topic on plants and seeds, Year 5 have been working to weed and replant part of our playground area. Mrs Holdway led the effort with groups of children, and everyone had a chance to clear the bank and plant. We're looking forward to seeing them grow!
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Saturday 3 May 2025 Children's Parade Year 3 had a fantastic Saturday morning at the Children's Parade this Bank Holiday weekend! There was lots of waving, cheering and even some dancing. Thank you to all the support given this year, whether that was helping to make something, coming along on the day or cheering from the sides! It was lovely to see so many familiar faces wave us by.
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Friday 2 May 2025 Aldrington Colour Run What a fantastic event organised and run by our incredible Parents of Aldrington. The sun shone, the tunes played, children (and teachers!!) ran, paint was everywhere, water pistols on the go....lots of smiling faces and a wonderful time had by all, the photos speak for themselves...check out the slideshow!!
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Wednesday 30 April 2025 Lewes Railway Land Trust
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Friday 25 April 2025 Year 4 Blackland Farm Trip - Day 2 Update! This morning, we have been busy doing a mini sports day and den building in the woods. It’s beautiful here! We have now had lunch and are getting ready to leave…
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Friday 25 April 2025 Year 4 Blackland Farm Trip - Day 2! We are all safe and well and enjoying breakfast and hot chocolate on a misty morning here at Blackland Farm. Last night we enjoyed a delicious dinner, some down time afterwards and then nighttime stories, riddles and singing. Everyone is now up and excited for the day ahead!
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Thursday 24 April 2025 Year 4 go to Blackland Farm This morning saw the start of a new adventure as Year 4 set off for an overnight stay at Blackland Farm. Excitement was high as they gathered up their sleeping bags, pillows and other belongings ready to board the coach.
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Friday 4 April 2025 Working With Others & End Of Term Fun What a joy it is to be part of such a great school! Celebrating the wonder of Easter together, working with others from different year groups, Easter bonnet parade, teacher egg and spoon race and an obstacle course!!!
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Monday 31 March 2025 Moving Monsters! In Year 3 this term we have been exploring pneumatic mechanisms in our design and technology lessons. Our design brief was to create a moving monster using this type of mechanism that worked using balloons and straws. The children loved getting creative with their monster designs!
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Tuesday 25 March 2025 A Midsummer Night's Dream Dream News… Recently, Year 5 has performed an amazing classic written by William Shakespeare, and he even had a small part in this show! It was a fantastic musical, with strong characters and realistic settings. Full of Shakespearean language, banger songs and brilliant costumes, the school absolutely loved it!
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Monday 24 March 2025 Collective Worship It was so wonderful to learn about the Easter message with Pastor Edson this morning. Children had the chance to learn and listen to a new language as the whole assembly was delivered in both Brazilian Portuguese and English! Some Year 4 children helped lead the prayers whilst children all learnt to sing a worship song in a different language.
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Thursday 20 March 2025 Lewes Castle Visit The Year 2 squires embarked on an adventure to Lewes Castle, immersing themselves in the world of knights and legends. From the towering battlements, they bravely defended the fortress against fearsome dragons, their bows and arrows at the ready. With courage and determination, they completed their noble quest—rescuing the legendary Crown of Light from the grasp of the wicked sorcerer. Now, with their mission accomplished, they eagerly await the grand accolade ceremony this week, where they will take their rightful place as knights.
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Monday 17 March 2025 Lets Dance 2025!!! Aldrington did themselves proud at the annual Lets Dance show hosted at The Dome. The street dance after school club run by the Rachael Reynolds School of Dance have clearly been working very hard on their routine, they were brilliant and the evening was definitely a success and full of fun.
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Wednesday 12 March 2025 Washbrook Farm Visit Check out the slide show of all the fun had by Year 1 today at Washbrook Farm.
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Wednesday 12 March 2025 Let Girls Play Day
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Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day 2025 As usual Aldrington children and staff rose to the occasion today with delightful and fun costumes for World Book Day. The children enjoyed their 'working with others' activity as a whole school in the morning, and a 'Battle of the Books' choice of story time in the afternoon. A fun day promoting the joy of reading !! Photos to follow...
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Tuesday 4 March 2025 Shrove Tuesday at Bishop Hannington We celebrated Shrove Tuesday at Bishop Hannington with a pancake race! Children showed off their running, tossing and competitive skills in our inaugural pancake race during our morning worship service.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Victorian Day Year 1 had a very busy day on Victorian Day! They were put to work shining the brass and silver, beating the rugs, polishing the boots and helping Cook in the kitchen make cucumber sandwiches and jam scones for the lady of the house.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Let The Games Begin! On Friday 28th February, the extremely talented Year 4 children expertly performed their eagerly anticipated production of Let the Games begin to a packed school hall of proud parents and characters.
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Wednesday 12 February 2025 New Growth Ministries Update Last year our school community raised over £2,800 for Project Borehole, to help New Growth Ministries (NGM) to get clean water as their borehole had dried up. A lack of rainfall has affected the water levels, causing further problems. However, there has been answer to prayer and enough rain has fallen to grow a harvest of corn. Further rainfall is needed for them to benefit from the boreholes dug. Please pray.
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Monday 10 February 2025 Bedtime Stories & Teddy Bear's Picnic Reception brought their teddy bears into school on Monday as part of their Bears topic. They made honey sandwiches at Forest School and enjoyed a Teddy Bear's picnic! Reception came back to school in their pyjamas on Monday evening for our Bedtime Stories event! They listened to stories about bears and sang songs about bears too!
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Monday 10 February 2025 Astronaut Training Day 2025 On Monday in Year 5 we trained as astronauts! Children came dressed in amazing costumes with some very sparkly and impressive outfits.
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Wednesday 29 January 2025 Observatory Science Centre Trip Year 5 had a wonderful time at Herstmonceux observatory this week. They had the chance to look in two of the domes at the famous telescopes. Children took part in a robot workshop as well as experiencing all the hands-on science exhibits that the venue has to offer. The science centre is due to be closing next year so do visit if you have the chance!
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Friday 24 January 2025 Squire Training Day Year 2 are having a great time on their journey to becoming knights and helping Merlin on his quest. They started their squire training and took part in archery, jousting, swordsmanship, designing castles and learning how to fire a trebuchet. Let's hope they'll soon be ready to retrieve the Crown of Light from the Shadow Sorcerer!
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Tuesday 21 January 2025 St Peter's Art Workshop St Peter's Church Brighton came to visit Year 5 and 6 to talk about their 200 year anniversary! They spoke about 'foundations' and children thought about their 'rock', listing what's important to them and putting it inside their 'Brighton Rock' which will be displayed as part of an art insulation in St Peter's Church.
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Wednesday 15 January 2025 Waitrose Visit Today the Year 1 children had a trip to Waitrose. We found out about different fruits, vegetables, and fish which will really help our learning. Behind the shop floor in Waitrose was really exciting because we saw the recycling area, the loading bay, storage areas and much more. We loved walking into the freezing cold freezers for a brief moment and standing in the fridges. It was a great trip.
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Tuesday 14 January 2025 Space Dome We went to Brighton Girls to visit their 'Wonder dome' where we got to experience the view from space. We also had a go at coding our own robots.
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Monday 13 January 2025 Saxon Day 2025 This was hosted by a Warrior in authentic dress with extensive knowledge of the Viking & Anglo Saxon age. Repeating History help the children to form a shield wall and charge with spears and shields, grind grain into flour, try on clothing, guess the real foods of the period, touch and feel replica weaponry and armour, pick an authentic name and job and learn to write in runes, play strategy boards games plus learn lots of fun facts.
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Tuesday 7 January 2025 Stone Age Painting Year 3 have been looking at how people would paint on the cave walls in the Stone Age. They used crushed chalk and mud to make their own paints and used sticks and leaves as paint brushes to create some fantastic cave style drawings!
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Thursday 19 December 2024 Carol Services at Bishop Hannington Church This week the children have been going to Bishop Hannington Church to sing carols. Aldrington Brass and Aldrington Drummers played, the readers and prayers were read out superbly, Year 3 sang with makaton, Year 4 sang with claves. Year 5 and 6 accompanied their songs with a variety of instruments. What a talented bunch we are !!
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