The children in Reception have been very lucky and have been chosen to visit Southernwood Residential Home with Little Movers. The children will go in small groups for series of visits to the home to take part in some inter generational classes. This will take place over the next few weeks. We went
This half term in Music, the Year 5 children have been focusing on drumming. The topic was inspired by the Rio Carnival so the children have been learning all about Brazilian culture. They played the surdo drums, keeping a steady pulse, whilst playing a rhythm on the agogo. The tamborim and ganza we
Each year our school takes part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch. The children really look forward to this event, which will be carried out across school. Very strong winds has postponed things, but this week the weather cleared and we saw perfect bird-watching conditions. The children set themselve
Last week Year 2 took on the big physical challenge of the obstacle course, the aim not just to have fun and get fit, but to see if girls and boys approached the activity differently. The outcome being that the size of the child appeared to be the only ‘hurdle’. This week a change of pace with a whi
To celebrate Chinese New Year our nursery children learned about the Chinese Lion Dance. They watched some footage filmed in Hong Kong of the incredible acrobats performing the traditional dance. They had great fun, on a very windy day, dancing and playing instruments, their performance was filmed s
The Christmas tree challenge encourages the children to use their imaginations, skills and wider knowledge of the world to create a tableau. They can use any resources that they might find, the only restriction that that they must incorporate a Christmas tree into the scene (but it can’t be used as
The children in Reception have been very busy learning all about Chinese New Year. They have learnt about the Chinese Zodiac, painted Chinese dragons and threaded Cheerios onto pipe cleaners to make the body of the dragon. The boys and girls also made colourful Chinese dragon puppets and used them t
Over the last few weeks children in Year 2 have been discussing similarities and differences between boys and girls. It has been interesting to hear their thoughts on whether gender affects ability and how that may change as we grow older. Across the Year group it was heart warming to hear the opini
The nursery children are really enjoying learning all about how to care for pets. Today they took part in puppy training. First in class they watched some dogs doing agility courses at Crufts. Then they got into pairs, a puppy and an owner in each pair. Outside they taught their puppies to walk on
The children have enjoyed their first week back in Reception. As we have celebrated a New Year, we enjoyed a circle time discussing what we would like to improve on. The children thought really hard about their goals and hope they can achieve them before this year is up. After our discussion, we wro
