The Reception children have enjoyed hunting for different shapes in the outdoor area. They were able to name the shapes and describe them. The children also had fun exploring different shapes by drawing around them and creating shape pictures.
This week in PE, Year 5 were lucky enough to have Anthony – a specialist basketball coach from the Newcastle Eagles – teaching PE! He taught us how to properly hold the ball, how to angle our bodies to get a basket, and showed us how important it is to look where you’re throwing! we had a great time
In Year three, the boys and girls have been focusing on vocabulary development. They worked together to write adjectives and adverbs to describe what they could see and hear. The boys and girls enjoyed using an online thesaurus to improve their vocabulary. The children used their own word banks to w
In Year three, the children have been developing their inference skills. They watched a video of a drive through a tornado and began by asking questions to the driver of the car. The boys and girls worked together in turns to hot seat the driver and infer thoughts and feelings of those involved. &n
We have been using an animation as inspiration in English this week. The children acted out the different emotions the characters had throughout the film.
Our Forest School came alive with the sound of music this week. Inspired by the children, who can often be found banging out rhythms on the odd tree stump. The children were given free reign with the resources to create their own instruments, with some fantastic results. The poly tunnel was raided f
This week Year One pretended to be paleontologists. They hunted for fossils and then excavated them out of the ground. They had to be dinosaur detectives and piece the fossils together. They found an Ichthyosaurus just like Mary Anning.
Mrs Carr’s class enjoyed Art Club this week. The children made their own Halloween witches and wizards hats, decorating them with stars and pumpkins.
In Forest School we will be introducing some knot work as part of our focus on construction. Last term the children learned about pivot points, how to create rotation points and in class investigated triangulation used in bridge building. We will now extend this topic so the children can build a v
In Reception, the boys and girls have been reading the story ‘The Scarecrows’ Wedding’. The children enjoyed making their own scarecrows using different shapes. Reception talked about which shapes they had used for their scarecrow and why. The boys and girls really enjoyed looking at all of the
