This week in science, year four have investigated how sounds are made. They explored using different instruments and everyday objects on their table. They identified the different actions that create sounds: hit, pluck, scrape, shake and blow. They then tried to describe the sound as being high pitc
Our first week back at Angel Court after a long break was a great success. The funding we have is from Sport England and their aim is to fund “projects and organisations, small and large, that help people get more people active. Every penny they spend ties into their vision that everyone in England
We continue to explore collaboration and teamwork in our Forest School sessions. This week the children thought about what friendship means to them. What do they look for in a friend and what do they give to their friends in return. Their challenge this week was to collaborate with their team to fi
This week was our first full week in Reception. We have had a great time meeting new friends and learning the rules and routines of the Reception classroom. We have enjoyed reading the story Rumpelstiltskin where the princess has to guess his name. We then played lots of games to learn our fri
Today, Year 5 took a trip to the Breamish Valley in Ingram to explore how the river has had an effect on the surrounding landscape as well as looking at what creatures live in the river. Across the day, the children got to experience two amazing activities. Mrs Morton’s class began climbing one of t
This week Year One had their very first computing lesson. They were so excited to use the iPads independently. Firstly, they learnt about different tools such as the paintbrush and how they could use a thick or a thin brush. Also, the pupils had ago at changing the colour of the paint and were
In Maths at the start of the year we always revisit place value, looking at what each digit within a number is worth. In Year 3, we progress onto numbers up to 1,000 so this week we’ve reviewed hundreds, tens and ones and next week we will introduce the thousand. Today we’ve been using place value c
In maths, Year Six have been working on a unit of work based on place value. During the unit of work, the children have developed a clear understanding of what each digit in a number represents within ones, tens hundreds, thousands up to ten million. They are also able to read and write numbers up t
This term, in English, Year Two are studying the book One Day on Our Blue Planet in the Ocean. To help them get to know the text, the boys and girls have created some beautiful art work. First, the children looked at some images from their new text. They carefully sketched the creatures before colou
This week, the Year 6 children had a shock start to their time when an air-raid siren sounded and they evacuated the building! As part of the ‘Peacekeeprs’ topic that Year 6 study in the Autumn Term, children read the text ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. To launch the book, the children are all
