This week in Reception, we have been reading the story Camille and the Sunflowers: A Story about Vincent Van Gogh. We enjoyed exploring some of Vincent Van Gogh’s beautiful artwork, especially his famous sunflower painting. The children used oil pastels to create their own bright and colourful sun
Reception were busy in the Forest School this week identifying flowers and seeds. They did a really impressive job collecting dandy-lions, daisies, cherry blossom and beech nut husks, these were then used in the Creative Clay Area and Mud Kitchen. After all that running around they still had enough
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb;}tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;}tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5;} This week in Reception, we have been enjoying the story Jack and the Beanstalk, which we will continue to develop over the half term through our Talk for Writing sessions. The chi
This week, Year 5 have begun an exciting new Science unit all about Space! To start their new unit, the children explored the planets in our solar system and discovered the differences between rocky planets and gas planets. They retrieved key information about each planet, learning which are smaller
To begin our new topic for the Summer Term, Nursery have been hunting for minibeasts in Forest School. We started the week finding out what minibeasts are and where they might live. We watched lots of videos and read stories. We found out lots of information and decided to see what we could find on
For our summer science topic we are learning about plants. Firstly, we learnt what a plant is. On a gloriously sunny day, we all went onto the field for a plant hunt. The children found many different kinds of plant including bluebells, grass, daffodils, daisies and buttercups and they enjoyed
Our Science topic this term has been all about the skeleton – from animals to humans – we have looked at different types of skeletons and also the muscles and tendons that allow us to move. We started looking at classifying living things as vertebrates or invertebrates, then looked at skeleton types
This week Year One have been learning about the life cycle of a frog. The children started their learning journey by watching a video of a real-life frog grow. The children were amazed at the different growing stages of a frog – frogspawn, tadpole, froglet and frog. The pupils created a frog mobil
As we enjoy the change in the weather so the time has come to get busy in the garden. Whilst Reception children have been cooking up a storm in the mud kitchen, Year 2 and 3 have been getting some Jerusalem artichokes in the ground and setting up pots ready to plant seeds in the poly tunnel. Old dea
As part of British Science Week, the children in Year 5 took part in an exciting online workshop led by two real-life engineers. The session gave the children a fantastic insight into the world of engineering and how engineers help to design and improve the transport we use every day. During the wor
