This week it has been so beautiful to have clear, expansive, blue skies, light shining down and not a breath of wind. A beginning of Spring filled with hope, after a very dark, wet winter. All Year groups are still learning about bird identification, playing games to help embed that knowledge but no
Over this half-term, Year 6 have been learning gymnastic skills – building up to creating a group routine to music. The children worked hard to develop their understanding of how to incorporate balances, jumps, rolls and movements and how to collaborate as a group. Over the weeks, they extended thes
This week in Reception we took part in Safer Internet Day and spent time learning how to stay safe online in a fun and age-appropriate way. We read the story Chicken Clicking by Jeanne Willis. In the story, a little chick goes online and clicks on everything she sees without asking for help. She end
Rain doesn’t stop the children embracing their natural world, as you can see they have been very busy in their Forest School sessions. Making prey houses camouflaged from birds of prey. They also completed the RSPB Big School Birdwatch and were really surprised how many birds they saw despite the we
This half term Nursery have been learning all about different ways of moving and finding ‘safe spaces’. Today in PE, we have been working hard to move around the hall in a variety of different ways. We re-capped moving from one line to another pretending to be aeroplanes, giants, crabs and giraffes.
This week we have been learning about birds of prey, their characteristics compared to our familiar garden birds and how and what they hunt. With this in mind once out in the Forest school the children tried their hand at making prey homes that were camouflaged from the sky so no hovering kestrels c
STEM week this week so we gave the children a Forest School style STEM activity. CHALLENGER BRIEF: Your team must design and build a product to move an egg from point A to point B without it breaking. Teams will be provided with a selection of scrap and resources to build their product. You have
This half term, the children in Year 2 have enjoyed their gymnastics lessons in PE, building an awareness of how their bodies move. They have been learning how to show control by stretching moving and being still. They used strength to demonstrate a range of balances such as an arch and a dish.�
As part of our All About the Birds topic, the children have been looking at the structures of different nests. They’ve watched videos of the nest building in action and looked at some real birds nests in class. They then took this information and applied it to their own nest building. Before the chi
This week, Year 4 have been practising their volleyball skills in PE. We practised our dig shot and the children really impressed us with their control and power. They took turns at throwing and returning the volleyball with accuracy and really showcased their turn-taking skills. Although the ball w
