Awareness and protection of our personal information has never been as important. Helping our children to understand how situations can quickly spiral out of control and showing them how to protect themselves is vital to keep them safe now and in the future. The classes were split into 4 teams a
Today, Nursery took part in a variety of activities to celebrate World Book Day today. They dressed up as book characters and brought in their favourite stories to share. They particularly enjoyed a visit from pupils in year 3 who read books to them. They also listened to the story ‘Aliens Lov
This term, in Year 5, our Forest School is focusing on Personal, Social and Emotional education in a more specific way. Last week the children discussed the three aspects of human health; physical, mental and emotional. The children then whittled sticks and wrote on them things they do to ensure t
The children spent an amazing afternoon working on their sgraffito tiles with the residents of Angel Court. Learning about the different glazes and how to apply them is really interesting and we are eagerly awaiting the results once the tiles have had their final firing. The theme of nature has insp
In our Forest School this week Year 3 experienced some culinary delights from the Stone Age. Linking to their topic they have been learning about how Stone Age man would have hunted and gathered their food. What impact the introduction of fire made to their communities and how this enabled them to b
At the end of last term year 6 discussed ways to improve and maintain their mental health, what things could they do to help stay emotionally and mentally fit. Through our Forest School we aim to embed their understanding by giving them practical situations to demonstrate their knowledge. Planning a
Nursery children enjoyed learning about birds this week. In class we watched a short film about the types of birds we might expect to see in our community, then we listened to different bird songs. The children particularly liked the chattering magpie and the robin. Before heading outside some child
Due to the wild weather, Year 3 stayed inside this week for their Forest School session, but we carried on learning about our native birds. We looked at plumage in particular, then the children made drawings and created origami bird snappers. They tried to represent the colours realistically and p
This series of sessions we have been looking at nature, plants and flowers, the aim to incorporate our observations into clay, creating tiled wall panels. The residents explained to the children what their favourite aspects of the garden were, then the children were sent out to collect as many of th
On Safer Internet Day, Nursery children have been talking about the internet and their experiences of using it on a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles and PCs. We talked about some of the web sites that they might visit which incluided sites like Cbeebies and Youtube. Nurs
