This month, we will see large groups undertake Bikeability – learning skills to keep them safe on the streets of Bedford.

In maths, we have started on fractions – yep, remember those from school?  Then on to decimals and, finally, percentages.  For English, we have started with portal narratives – what is through the door – before moving on to diary entries.  St Lucia is a small island in the Caribbean and is the focus of our Geography lesson.  Science is materials and their properties and Art is the works of Alfred Wallace and Hokusai (whose famous ‘The Great Wave’ is shown below).

Probably the most fundamental change to our normal school day is the inclusion of guided reading sessions (or CUSPS as the children may call it).  This is a scheme of work that enables the school to focus on the essential aspects of reading and comprehension.  We have almost completed our first book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (an adopted version of Shakespeare’s famous comedic tale of love and magic).  Next is I Am Not A Label, a collection of biographies of famous individuals, past and present, who have some form of disability.  The tales of how they have overcome these and made successes of their life’s is inspirational.