Welcome to the Rundell class page. Below you will find details of what the children have been learning and doing at school. Please click on the link to the right of this page for homework.

Autumn Term 2025

On Friday 28th November, we welcomed PC Michael Dix from Thames Valley Police into school to talk to the year 5 and 6 children about a range of topics including bullying, social media and behaviour in the community and the laws around these. He reminded us that the age of criminal responsibility is 10 and highlighted a campaign called 'Stay True to You' that encourages young people to trust their instincts. The children had some excellent insights and questions and we very much appreciated PC Dix's time. 

Rundell Class are very much enjoying learning about Walter Tull, the topic has covered learning about Barbados and Walter's parents, his difficult childhood in a London orphanage and his footballing talent. We are now at the part of his story where he joins the British Army in WW1 to become the first black serving officer. 

On Friday 14th December, we had a busy day raising money for Children in Need in our PJs and raising awareness of Anti-bullying week by wearing odd-socks! Later on, we welcomed Captain Russ Danckert to school - as a serving member of the British Army, he gave the year 5 and 6 children a fascinating insight into his life and career in the armed forces, including some marching practise!

  

Using some basic sewing skills to attach the button and leaf, we created a really effective and poignant display of our work for Remembrance Day this week. 

Pupils gather in Henley Marketplace to mark Remembrance Day

  

In Rundell Class we have been continuing our learning about Winston Churchill, this time as an artist and replicating some of his 500 paintings to make our own gallery. In D.T, we have designed and sewn felt poppies to mark Remembrance Day - cutting the felt, sewing the buttons and leaf to then present them on a black and white photo of our own hands, they look stunning.

  

We have made a great start to our new topic - British Bulldog, The Story of Winston Churchill - some lovely topic cover pages here to kick of our detailed research.

  

Rundell Class have been busy designing, constructing and testing sundials this week as we come towards the end of our current Mission Control space-themed work. The children produced some really creative and colourful designs. We also performed our whole-class poem for this week's Harvest Festival - all the readers and the ensemble did a fantastic job!

  

  

This week we have really started to go deep into our space topic 'Mission Control' - the children have brought in some great books, done some research at home and even baked some space-themed cupcakes. In this photo you can also see the models we made to show the orbits of the Earth and the Moon. 

  

As we start off the school year, we have been thinking hard about what makes a good friend and who are the people that we trust to help and support us.