This week our Nursery children have been busy practicing how and where to line up on the yard. This can be tricky if you are in the middle playing. We teach them that when they hear the first whistle they stop what they are doing, then on the second whistle they move to a designated space. Once they
In P.E. Year 6 have been doing a variety of activities to help keep fit. Mrs Galvin’s class have been learning how to pass backwards whilst moving forwards in tag rugby and Mr Allen’s class have started to throw and catch the ball in a lacrosse stick, which is proving somewhat hard to do. Both of th
In Geography, Year Two have been learning all about maps. The children went on a hunt around school and found lots of interesting map symbols, including a picnic site, a firepit and a polytunnel. From their hunt, the children recalled the location of each symbol and plotted them onto a map of the sc
In English, Year 3 are reading stories based on the traditional tale of ‘Cinderella’. They have previously enjoyed ‘Prince Cinders’ and ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ and were very excited to listen to the Chinese tale ‘Yeh-Shen’. The boys and girls worked in pairs to sequence images and talk through the
In French, Year 4 have been learning how to introduce themselves. The children have learnt how to ask and answer questions about their name, age and how they are feeling. In addition, the children have recapped counting to 10 in French and learnt the numbers from 11 to 20. We have practised this b
Over the past week, Year 5 have been studying the Anglo Saxons, which links to our work in English on ‘Beowulf’. The children were given key information about the time period, and worked in pairs to order this chronologically. Following on from this, they extracted the most important information abo
With the rapid increase of COVID-19 cases and the implementation of new national and local expectations and restrictions, it is appropriate for us to revisit the systems we have in place which have been planned to support access to our school site to be as safe as possible. Firstly, I would like to
Year One went back in time this week. We learnt all about fossils and how they can help palaeontologists learn about the lives of dinosaurs. They even found out about a special kind of fossil called an ammonite. Everyone had a go at making a fossil out of salt dough. They had to roll it into
This week at Nursery we have been talking about ourselves, things we like and don’t like, also our favourite toys. The children loved sharing their photos from their home learning about things they love to do at home. We have also been looking at feelings this week, our main story has been ‘The
As part of our topic ‘There’s no place like home!’, year 4 have been learning about the Viking invasion of Britain. They have identified where the Vikings came from, the parts of Britain that they invaded and explained the reasons why they came. They then used their mathematical skills to order sign
