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 […]
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 […]
World Book Day – Year 5
In Year 5 we have had a great day for World Book Day and its 25th Anniversary! Lots of us dressed up and we had good discussions about who we were and what books we were from. Story in a Jar:We each brought in a jar and spent time making different resources to go in […]
A Christmas Message from the Staff
We hope you have a very Merry Christmas, stay safe and have lots of fun. See you all in the New Year!
Remembrance Day Poetry
The children of Lord Scudamore have been looking at the Act of Remembrance this week. Each year group selected different groups of people or animals that are remembered during this time. We hope you enjoy your children’s learning and how creative they have been.  To help us celebrate our poetry, Nursery and Reception children created a […]
Black History Month in Year 5
Year 5 were tasked with writing like Phillis Wheatley for Black History Month. They created a painting depicting slavery into freedom inspired by the Harriet Tubman picture and were given artisitc freedom of how they wanted to do this. They then developed and wrote a free speech poem to describe their emotions of being freed from […]
Roman Numerals in Year 5
Year 5 had great fun in maths this week with Roman Numerals. They took their learning outside to take part in a Roman numeral code breaking loop where they had to work out the numbers on each sheet, written in Roman numerals, to find the next clue on the map. They all did amazingly and worked […]
Year 5 have been learning about the phases of the moon this week. They have discovered how when the moon moves around the Earth, how we see it from different angles and, therefore, how we see different amounts of the lit side. They have learnt the names of the different phases and the order that […]
Ancient Greece in Year 5
As part of our topic about Ancient Greece, Year 5 have been learning the story of Medusa in English. They have started to develop their own mythical monster characters that they will create a mythological story about. Here are some examples of their monster information sheets:
