It has been a pleasure to welcome our new starters and returning children into Nursery this week. We have been blown away by how mature our returning children have been and how well our new starters have begun to make friends, learn some of our class rules and access different areas of the classroom
This week in Year 5, the children were given a variety of different picture clues to try and decipher what our new reading book in English would be for this term, The first clue was a picture of the poem of Beowulf written in Old English. Some of the children thought the poem was a treasure map that
In English this week, Year 3 took on the role of detectives to make predictions about their English text for this term. They took part in a treasure hunt around the school grounds where they followed a map to find clues about the story. The children discussed the clues and made excellent predictions
All of the children in Year One have made an amazing start to their new class. This week, we introduced our class English reader ‘Tyrannosaurus Drip’. We started by going on a dinosaur hunt. We even sang a song We’re going on a dinosaur hunt We’re going to catch a big one What a beautiful day We’re
This week in Year 4, the children were given clues to try and decipher what their new reading book in English would be. The first clue was a metallic egg. There were many different predictions as to what this could be. Some children thought it might be a chocolate egg, whereas others thought it migh
This week, Year Two were set the task of making a mask similar to a character in their new book. First, they had to cover their paper plate with brown tissue paper. Next, they added eyes, teeth, a nose and horns to their mask. The children had lots of guesses as to who the character could be. Some s
It has been a busy week in Year 6 as the children hit the ground running upon their return to school. They have had clues to gradually reveal their English book for the half-term (Friend or Foe); have studied numbers up to 99 million; applied for roles and responsibilities in school during PSHE less
It is with great sadness that I write this message with the sudden passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, yesterday afternoon. As was very clear from the Jubilee celebrations in May, Queen Elizabeth was a person who was loved across all generations like no other. It is impossible to fully
After what we hope has been a wonderful summer for you all, we are very much looking forward to our children returning to school on Tuesday 6th September, along with our new Reception class starting their first day. When returning from a summer break, it always takes a little time to re-adjust and t
