This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We know that ‘whole’ means to have all of an object or shape. We also know that ‘half’ means our object/shape has been split into two equal parts. We even know that to make a quarter, we must have 1 of 4 equal parts. We have […]
In our DT lesson this week, the children explored and evaluated a range of vegetables in preparation for soup making. We tried a variety of raw and cooked vegetables, letting our senses help us with our evaluations. Using cocktail sticks to handle each item of food, we considered the smells, textures and flavours. We rated […]
Today we celebrated our children who had won class dojo and who had showcased some outstanding learning. We are so proud of all of our children this week and we know that all our children are trying their best. Miss Stubbs announced the winners of our Art Competition today so well done to all our […]
Our KS1 children are so creative in their learning, showcasing their Oracy and Performance skills as you can see here through MFL and Literacy.
Here is some wonderful learning outcomes from Spring 1 and our journey so far. We have had a remarkable term with live lessons, Extra Curricular Activities and competitions to make everyone smile. We hope you enjoy reading about all the wonderful learning that has taken place.
This week the staff have been frantically delivering bears to each child in our school with a special certificate for our parents and children to tell them how proud we are of them and how much we miss them. We still have a few more deliveries to make but we hope you keep and treasure […]
This afternoon Miss Parkin and Miss Stubbs held a live drawing session. We all drew Mickey Mouse and what fantastic outcomes we have got! Here are lots of the drawings we have received, if you have one to share please send it to your teacher we would love to see it! Mrs Buttree did a […]
Yesterday we delivered bears to children for all of their hard work during home learning. Thank you for making our day super special! If you haven’t received your bear yet, keep an eye out!🐻
Today we celebrated Record of Achievement Day. We attended live lessons and reflected on all of our learning so far this year. Even though we are learning from home, we have all achieved in some way including live lessons, expressing ourselves in mental health week, joining extra curricular activities and so much more!
Today’s special mentions was so wonderful, celebrating all the achievements of our learners. We’ve seen learning linked to all curriculum areas and some fabulous ways to present learning. Congratulations to all our children today and our staff who have worked tirelessly. Well done to Miss Darby and Mrs Oram who are our staff stars of […]
We are so proud of Ava and mum this week, fabulous team effort in understanding the text and using her phonics knowledge to decode unknown words. Well done Ava we are really proud of you.
Thank you so much to Mrs Oram and Charlotte for our Extra Curricular club this afternoon. The children loved making fruit kebabs and fruit salads. Some of our children even created artwork using the fruit. I think the teachers loved this too. I think you should have your own cookery show.
This week for Children’s mental health week we are taking part in a whole school art competition. We had a live lesson with Miss Stubbs and Miss Parkin to discuss our ideas.
Today we had a special visitor on our phonics lesson. Olaf joined in learning the i-e split diagraph. I hope he will now start to use it in his writing!
Please take part in our whole school competition to win prizes – we can’t wait to see your entries. Good Luck Everyone, Art Competition For the competition we would like you to create a piece of artwork with the inspiration ‘A view from your window’. This could be what you can see from your window […]
This week we have showcased some tremendous outcomes from our children. They have all worked extremely hard and gone the extra mile. A huge staff shout out to Mrs Marlow and Mr Purshouse for achieving staff star 🌟 of the week. Well done everyone.
Please explore the NEMESIS website and enjoy reading some of the wonderful projects our children have been involved in. Here is our link to our story about our KS1 outdoor area, we really hope you enjoy. Thank you to all the teachers and children for making this a very special place.
On Wednesday I had the fabulous opportunity to witness these children ‘becoming scientists’. There was a book, linked to our topic ‘Marvellous Mixtures’ near the spot tray and the children began to look through to find an investigation and began to role play using the book and the scientific equipment available. I felt lucky to […]
Mr Hanson held his extra curricular activity today with a fitness session for all children in school to join, we did press ups, lunges and squats not to mention a whole range of exercises to keep us fit and healthy,
A huge thank you to our fabulous teachers for creating such a wonderful escape room for our children as part of our Extra Curricular Activities. What an excellent challenge and can’t wait to see more of these in school. Especially linking STEM across the curriculum. Well done everyone!
In our DT lesson today, we thought about food that is healthy, like fruit and vegetables. We agreed some food could be healthy, but unhealthy when you eat too much of it (bread and cheese). Some healthy foods are mixed with unhealthy foods, like fish and chips, or burgers with salad. It was certainly food […]
Today Mr Parkin’s Extra Curricular activity was all about pets. Children from all classes were present and brought their pets to meet everyone. We learnt so much about different animals, their habitats and special skills. We loved it thank you Mr Parkin for a wonderful session the staff loved it too.
In key stage 1 we looked at observational changes for our science learning today. We thought about different observational changes and then we all joined in with Miss Stubbs carrying out our own experiment using egg and vinegar. I wonder what will happen?
It was so lovely having our children and parents share in our special mentions assembly today. Thank you to all our teachers who are working so hard and sharing the beautiful learning our children are creating at home. Congratulations to all our winners today and good luck everyone for next week.
Since March 2020 we have been finding new ways to capture our learning, especially during this difficult time we find ourselves in. Together we continue to learn, grow and support our Mental Health and Wellbeing. We wanted to celebrate our children’s learning through the lockdown periods we have experienced together. We are so proud of […]
We used a video that has been going viral as inspiration for our Ball Skills lesson in PE today. We used one handed and two handed bounces to keep close control of ball movement. Using the music to keep time, we rolled the ball around our bodies and practiced throwing and catching skills towards the […]
Today in phonics we learnt the new ‘ph’ sound. We finished off our session with a game of trash and treasure. We really enjoyed reading the ‘ph’ words.
This week in phonics we learnt 3 new phase 5 sounds. We learnt ir, aw and ue. We’ve had lots of fun practising our new sounds and we even finished the week off with tricky word bingo!
We are enjoying our online phonics sessions with Miss Stubbs and Miss Parkin. We have learnt two new phase 5 sounds ‘ea’ and ‘oy’.
Our KS1 Children had a fabulous Christmas party, enjoying lots of games and making memories.