The first Remembrance day was held a year after the first world war, it was to commemorate the agreement that was signed which ended WW1 after years of fighting by 32 different countries. The agreement called Armistice was signed on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11am So from that first year, we […]
This week in DT we have been making bird feeders. We used our designs and research to create a feeder that would be suitable for the birds to eat during winter.
F2W have been busy exploring the text; A Disgusting Sandwich. They have been busy making them, I can’t wait to see what happens to them.
Today the children finished their bug hotel and placed them around the school grounds. We will be returning to see if the bug have made a home in our hotels.
1/2B had lots of discussion in RE about how we can protect our world and what might happen if we don’t 🌍
2S have been making bird feeders for our outdoor area. They have been using a range of skills to cut, glue and join materials.
Today children in 6B and 5/6H had the wonderful opportunity to speak to the artist Ilona Drew. She will be working with us to create pieces of art surrounding landmarks seen and talked about from our residential visit to Northumberland. We thought it was important for children to get to know the artist first so […]
The children have been out investigating the outdoors to find out the best place for their bug hotel. The children are going to go back in two weeks to find out if their are any bugs inside their hotel. Some children have used colours to see if this attracts the bugs. Others have used a […]
Our Y4 children have had the most amazing time researching, designing and making bug hotels. We can’t wait to see what creatures will explore them when they are placed outside.
This week in F1 we have been celebrating Diwali. The children have made beautiful cards using printing and practised tracing their name inside.
Our F1 children really love spending time in their reading hut, at lunchtime today Mrs Smith really enjoyed looking at different stories with the children. Smiles all round!
Last week we celebrated the festival Diwali and bonfire night, we had lots of activities in setting linked to both events. We read all about Diwali and what it means and the different ways it is celebrated. We have looked at bonfire/firework safety and keeping safe. The children have been decorating their own Henna hands, […]
We have been using the story meerkat mail in Literacy this week. We used story mapping to help us to remember the events in the story.
Children in 1/2B have been creating their own postcards after enjoying the Meerkat Mail story about Sunny and his travels. we thought carefully about content, layout and which address to use for sending 💌
Our children in REY have loved exploring Diwali through Dance. Look at how they are using colour to enhance their movements. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/424NptAhaeE
This half term Year 3 are going to be learning hockey skills on PE. We started last week with a push pass and ball control skills.
Mrs Dowell and Mrs Elliott love getting outdoors with the children for Environment club. They are busy planning their Winter Wonderland Extravaganza. Here hey are busy as ever getting the willow domes ready.
We are thinking about our new book so we decided to be scientists and conduct an experiment. What an exciting experiment that was. We did everything yo our peanut butter sandwich that happened in the story and we decided that we couldn’t eat it because it was too disgusting.
A huge congratulations 3/4P, fabulous achievements this week on your maths passports.
You will never guess what happened this afternoon! We had a postcard from our super carrots! Carl, Cora and Cooper carrot escaped! How did they escape? We decided they are clever, car driving, commando crawling, karate chopping, climbing, cat riding, cool carrots 🥕
This week we celebrated all of our learners achievements. We have so many children who are moving to the next planet on their maths passport challenge and I know our children love being challenged. We have had colour mixing, map work and some fabulous rollercoasters in science. It has been such a wonderful week and […]
In our sketchbooks, we refined our pen skills thinking about tone, line and texture in preparation for Remembrance Day.
The children in F1 have been practising their counting skills linked with the Room on the Broom story. They counted how many characters were on the broomstick and matched it with the number symbol. They were brilliant at working in pairs and finding how many altogether.
The children in F1 have been reading the story Room on the Broom. They used a paint program on the I Pads to create a witch picture. The children practised changing the colour of the paint brush and using their finger to make marks on the page.
We have enjoyed learning French pet vocabulary in 1/2B, using games and sound clips to help us get it just right 👍🏻😀
This week we worked on the Module 1 training materials during assembly time. We enjoyed having the opportunity to discuss scenarios and ways forward. We learned the difference between being a bystander and being an upstander.
Today in our outdoor maths learning we drew our own number lines to 10 and then asked each other some take away questions and practiced by standing on the numbers.