Football in Reception

During our PE lesson this week Reception focused on foot work. After a brief movement warm up, we used the footballs and did some close dribbling around the cones learning to keep the ball close to our feet. If the ball rolled away we had to stop the ball by putting our foot on top. […]

Daffodils in Year 2

In Year 2 this week, the children have been learning all about Still-life art. They were tasked with sketching a daffodil and then evaluating their piece of work. We then discussed the daffodil and the shapes of the stem, trumpet and petals. From there we thought about how we could improve our still-life drawings. Here […]

World Poetry Day 2022

For World Poetry Day in Year 2,  focused on shape poetry, more specifically shape poetry surrounding the Environment. By combining these two topics together the children createdpoems inside a tree. Our focus was on rhyming words related to trees, this led to many amazing lines of poetry within the children’s work, we hope you enjoy this selection: “Up up up, in the canopy, when I bloom my […]

Red Nose Day 2022

Lord Scudamore Academy have had such a great day for Red Nose Day, and really embraced the ’Crazy Hair’ theme! We also had lots of discussions about why we participate in Res Nose Day events and where the money we donate goes. We also want to say a big THANK YOU to the staff at […]

British Science Week in Year 2

Year 2 have been studying the naturalist Steve Backshall for Science week and have learnt all about how sharks are measured. We made our own graphs to see whether there was a correlation between our length and age. We completed a salt experiment and have made our very own crystals.  We have finished the week […]

A Busy Week in Year 1

Year 1 have had a very busy week.  It is British Science Week this week and we have been doing practical investigations and learning about the conservationist Jane Goodall.  We discovered that if you measure the circumference of tress you can find out how old they are. We took part in a treasure hunt where […]

Roman Catapults in Year 3

This week in Year 3 we have been exceptionally busy working on our Roman Catapult Design Technology project. We haven’t finished our final catapults yet but here are some pictures of our independently made prototypes. We hope you like them as much as we do! We can’t wait to finish our final pieces. 

Rivers in Year 5

Last week we looked at rivers of the world as part of our rainforest topic. We have been focusing on the Amazon but this week we explored more famous rivers, and in particular why cities are built near rivers. We enjoyed looking at the different ways in which people can use the rivers to their […]

Biographies in Year 6

In Year 6, we have been learning about biography writing. Today, we researched all about Greta Thunberg, who is the environmental campaigner we have been given to investigate as a year group for British Science Week 2022. The children used a variety of books and websites to create their mind-maps which will support them in their […]

Physical Development in Nursery

This week Nursery have been focusing on Physical Development, the children have had great fun exploring different movements and activities. These activities have been supporting the children to develop their fine and gross motor skills, and they really enjoyed team activities!