Reading Buddies in Year 1

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

Music in Year 1

In Year 1’s music lessons this week the children have been learning about varying tempo and dynamics.  They were given a photo story of a lion from resting to attacking prey.  The children had to adjust their tempo and dynamics to best suit the pictures.  They did a great job and decided to make the […]

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Today we have celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in style! We have had ice creams, worn red, white and blue, participated in Jubilee activities and spent time playing outside together as a whole school. Some children made magnificent Jubilee crowns at home and paraded them for us all to see. After much deliberation, a pair […]

Forest School ‘Cooking’ in Year 1

We had a wonderful Forest School session this week. We enjoyed making our own games, and creating our own food – we even began planting some potatoes.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

World Book Day – Year 1

1S We have had a great day getting magical powers from reading and writing.  We all shared our books and discussed the characters.  We watched an excerpt from Matilda and listened to a few songs and then listened to Cressida Cowell as she described the magic of reading and how it can make you use […]