Forest School in Reception

Reception have been enjoying their Forest School sessions in our wonderful on-site Eco Garden.  The children have been busy pond dipping and observing tadpoles, as well as learning about birds.  They collected sticks, moss, leaves and feathers using wooden pegs (‘beaks‘) then created their own bird nests. The children also made bird feeders by coating […]

Ukraine Day

On Wednesday 23rd March, we had a day dedicated to raising money to go towards tackling the crisis in Ukraine. We wore yellow and blue colours to show our support of Ukraine, talked about what is going on and how we can help, and lots of children brought in generous donations. As a school, we […]

Displays in Year 5

Over the last week or so Year 5 have been really busy creating fantastic artwork to display around our school. During science week, we looked closely at water pollution and what it means for the ocean and all things in the ocean. We were quite upset about what we found out, and we created some […]

Outdoor Play in Nursery

The Nursery children have been enjoying the beautiful sunshine this week with lots of time spent outside.

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 […]