Mountbatten

Class Teacher: Faye Ansell

Welcome to Mountbatten Class one of our Key Stage 3 classes here at Redwood Park Academy.

Summer 2025

What a lovely start to the Summer term Mountbatten class have had!

In Project, we have enjoyed discovering the senses in a nature walk, exploring what we can see, hear, touch and smell in our school garden and orchard, before returning to class to enjoy tasting some delicious fresh fruit.

We had a fantastic time kayaking this week, taking full advantage of the glorious weather to get out and enjoy the water.

In cooking, we made our own bread, and it smelled and tasted! - delicious.

We are learning about fractions in Maths and have been able to find halves and quarters of amounts. In English, we are exploring garden poetry and locating rhymes. We are so excited to find out what the rest of the summer term has in store for us!

Autumn 2024

What a fantastic term Mountbatten class have had!

As we reflect on this term, we feel a sense of joy and achievement in all that we've explored and learned together. Our topic this term has been ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ and we dived into the vibrant world of various cultures and traditions from around the world.

In English this term, we've written some truly amazing descriptions of a firework display, based on the celebration of Bonfire Night. We used colourful adjectives and lively onomatopoeia to bring fireworks to life on paper, capturing their dazzling displays and crackling sounds.

A major highlight of our term was studying Diwali, the Festival of Lights. We had a brilliant time crafting our own dandiya sticks and diya lamps, learning about the significance of light and joy in this beautiful festival, and even performing a traditional Navratri dance!

As the festive season approaches, we're eagerly practising our class Christmas song for the Christmas performance. Everyone has been working very hard, and we cannot wait to welcome you all to come and watch.

Looking ahead to the spring term and beyond, we're looking forward to continuing our learning journey together. We are so excited for the new term’s topic and to see what awesome experiences are in store for us all.

Summer 2024

Mountbatten class have enjoyed our weird and wonderful art, making paper mache planets, and inventing our own ice cream. We’ve all worked really hard to improve our reading this year and using our phonics to help us. We’ve all got on really well and enjoyed each other’s company and have had a very happy year.

The class has really enjoyed learning about space and creating our own planet fact files. Our highlight was creating our class art project of an eye which was so fun and the art looks brilliant! We also really loved making our own ice cream in a bag and inventing our toppings. We enjoyed learning about D-Day and taking part in the celebrations.

Our favourite trips were to The Mary Rose Museum, the farm, and to Winchester Science Centre. We all enjoyed the 4D cinema at the Mary Rose Museum, and seeing the ship and learning about its history. At the farm we liked seeing the baby cows best, and making butter. At Winchester we all loved the Planetarium, and trying on glasses that made light into rainbows. The class are looking forward to...

Seeing our new class, learning loads of new things, and having another great year in year 9.

This is what some of the pupils had to say...

Savanna - “I think this year has been really wonderful and I think all of us have really enjoyed our year in year 8”.

Samuel - “I’ve really loved making friends and playing football this year with them. They’re my mates. It’s been a great year.”