Farms in Nursery

Nursery have been busy creating farm animals using different media, looking and thinking carefully about their different features. They had great fun making ‘muddy’ animal footprints and tractor tracks and equally enjoyed giving the animals a wash after! We’ve also been making the most of the beautiful weather, having lots of fun outside.

Fairies in Reception

Reception have enjoyed a wonderful and magical ‘fairy’ themed week.  We have shared fairy stories and have performed fairy dances incorporating our colourful wings! The children also had a fantastic time whilst going on a (very glittery!) fairy hunt around the school, reading clues that led them to the next location.  Once completed, everyone received […]

Frank and Bert in Year 1

On our curious quests this week we have been reading a book about great friends called Frank and Bert.  We have been learning how to use exclamation marks.  We drew the characters and wrote exclaiming sentences! 

Decimals and Fractions in Year 5

This week in Maths, Year 5 have enjoyed competing against each other to be the first to make the equivalent decimal number of a fraction, on an interactive place value grid. 

Memory Boxes in Year 4

In PSHE, Year 4 are learning about coping with loss and how we can remember those who we lost. This week, we made items for a memory box for a potential pet we had lost. We had an array of different materials to choose from. Some children chose to write beautiful poems, others made collars, […]

Observational Drawings in Year 3

This week in Year 3, we have been looking at Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus. We looked closely at their observational study drawings, and tried to recreate their style by drawing our own. We had a rose each, and used texture and shading to make our drawings look as much like the real thing as […]

Baby visits in Nursery

We had some special visitors this week as we have been learning all about babies! We loved meeting baby Evelyn and baby Frankie. The children have enjoyed role playing in the baby clinic and thinking carefully about what babies need and how we can take care of them. In our circle times we discussed the […]

Time in Year 2

Year 2 are currently learning about time, we are focussing on 0’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to an hour, here we are practising.

Researching Explorers in Year 4

As part of our History topic Year 4 have been studying different explorers. We have already looked at Christopher Columbus and this week we looked at Amelia Earhart. We played detectives, studying newspaper articles about her to find out some amazing facts, sharing our ideas with the rest of the class and writing up the […]

Life Cycles in Year 1

In Science in Year 1, we have been learning about life cycles of different animal groups and talking about the huge changes that happen to frogs and caterpillars in particular, as they grow into adults. We learnt that this is called metamorphosis! Along with our learning, we have been really lucky to watch our very own […]