Bessie Coleman – Year 4

This week in Year 4, we have learnt about Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman was born in 1896, and raised in Texas by an African American mother and a father of both African and Native American heritage. After hearing her brothers’ war time tales of women in France being allowed to fly airplanes, her interest in […]

Sir Lewis Hamilton – Year 6

Year 6 have been studying Black History Month this week in English, specifically British Black History and how people have made their stamp on the world.  We have researched Sir Lewis Hamilton who is a British racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Mercedes. Hamilton, the only black driver in F1 history and a seven-time world champion, has given the fortune […]

Roald Dahl in Year 3

As part of our Reading and Art topic, Year 3 have had an in depth look at Roald Dahl’s book ‘Danny Champion of the World’. We have really enjoyed reading the story in our classes and finding out all about what Danny and his Dad got up to in the first part of the book. […]

Reading Buddies in Year 1

Year 1 have started reading to Year 4 as ‘reading buddies’, both year groups really enjoy this weekly occurrence.

Cheeky Monkeys in Year 2

In Year 2 we have been visited by the cheeky monkeys that have escaped from the wild place project! We have learnt about monkeys and found out that what a monkey sees, then a monkey does! This lead to the children having lots of fun role playing different characters and job roles. It has been […]

Little Red Riding Hood and Reading Buddies in Year 1

Year 1 had fun acting in role during our English lessons using mobile phones.  We also had enjoyed spending time with our reading buddies from Year 4.

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 […]

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 […]

World Book Day – Year 3

World Book Day – Year 6

We had a really exciting day in Year 6 for World Book Day 2022! We created book trailers in the morning using iMovie to promote our favourite books which we shared with the class and story jars in the afternoon.