We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school tomorrow for the start of the new term and hope everyone has had a great week. We're looking forward to another great half term at Firside. #DREAM

📐 Maths in Action in Year 4! 🟨 Our Year 4 mathematicians have been busy exploring area and discovering that shapes can look completely different but still have the same area! Using just four Post-it notes, the children investigated how many different rectilinear shapes they could create. They had to think carefully about how to arrange their notes, exploring different possibilities while keeping the total area exactly the same. It was a fantastic opportunity to develop their mathematical thinking, problem-solving skills and spatial reasoning. Same area, different shapes – brilliant mathematical thinking, Year 4! 🌟

🔬 Family Learning Afternoon in 5P! 🚀 It was lovely to welcome families into school for our most recent Family Learning afternoon with 5P😊Everyone enjoyed working together on some fun, hands-on science activities all about forces, linking to the learning Year 5 have been exploring in class. It was wonderful to see families getting involved, sharing ideas and learning together! 🧲💡 A huge thank you to everyone who came along and made the afternoon so special. We loved having you in school! 💚#DREAM

Last week, in our weekly Redlands House Care Home we got to help create a huge collage of work from the pieces created at their craft event a few weeks ago. The children loved working together with the residents to create this huge piece of artwork.

🍂Happy half term holidays!🍂 And just like that, we've reached the end of another busy and brilliant half term! 🌟 As we head into the October half term break, we want to take a moment to say a huge WELL DONE to all our wonderful children. You have worked hard, embraced new challenges, shown kindness and resilience, and given us so many reasons to feel proud. You absolutely deserve a well-earned rest! 💚 👏 To our amazing parents and families, thank you for your continued support, encouragement and partnership. Working together makes such a difference, and we are so grateful to have you as part of our school community. We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful October half term break, filled with rest, fun, family time and plenty of happy moments. We will see you all on Monday 2nd November!