Oct 16 2022
Last week we arrived back to our classroom from playtime as normal and we were faced with a huge mess! We couldn’t believe our eyes. Someone or something had been in our classroom! We began to look around the room for clues as to who was responsible for this mess. We found a picture and …
Oct 14 2022
The children have been very excited to share their knowledge of sounds this week and have been practicing their writing whenever and wherever they can.
Oct 14 2022
Following on from our spider cookies last week, the Reception children found a story called ‘Biscuit Bear’ in our library. During our literacy lessons, the children have been expanding their curiosity and questioning skills about how to make biscuits and how he came alive. We acted out the story, developing our own versions and as …
Oct 14 2022
This week, Reception have been developing their understanding of one to one correspondence by using objects in their environment to concrete their learning. In addition to singing songs representing one, two and three, the children have been learning how to write numbers of meaning and supporting each other. Yesterday’s challenge was to use four pens …
Oct 14 2022
This half term we’ve been learning all about the ins-and-outs of the human (and some animals!) body. This includes things like what proper nutrition looks like, why we should eat balanced diets, what different -parts of our bodies look like and their functions and more! Lately, we’ve been talking about different bones and how they …
Oct 13 2022
As part of Year 6’s personal development, some of our class have been taking part in Bikeability sessions. During these sessions, children have been considering their road awareness and how to safely ride on the road. They have been practicing their signalling and looking over their shoulder to see whether their is any oncoming traffic. …
Oct 12 2022
Our core text in English this half term has been The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon by Richard Adams. For this lesson we built on our learning from the previous day. We generated questions we wanted to ask Egg Box Dragon. For example, how did you find the purse? When did you realise you had …
Oct 11 2022
This week, Nursery have learned about Autumn and how the outdoors has changed since summer time. Our focus book was ‘Leaf Man’, so we went on a nature walk to collect fallen leaves, sticks and crab apples to make our ‘Leaf Man’ collages! The children also baked lots of delicious leaf-shaped biscuits.
Oct 05 2022
This half term in Science we have been looking at sound. We have been carrying out a number of investigations to help us answer some of our questions: How is sound made? Can sound travel through different materials? How can distance affect sound? Our first lesson focussed on discovering how sound is made. We discovered …
Oct 04 2022
Our focus text for the week has been the book called ‘Supertato’. The children took an interest in this story and so we used it as our topic to make our learning fun and enjoyable. Throughout the week, the children were able to develop their communication and language skills through listening to the story and …