Reading Champions!
It was a huge privilege today to be able to give over 75% of KS2 a reading certificate for achieving 25%, 50% or in some cases 75% of their termly target! We're really impressed with how you're all doing and love hearing all about the latest books you've read. Our photos show just some of those…
Sharing faiths
We are very very lucky to have two experts in our class who are happy to talk to us about the Islam faith and on Friday they brought in some special items to share with the class. Each week as we learn a new Bible story, our experts tell us how it compares to a similar story in the Quran and we…
Emerging Electrical Engineers
This week we have been learning about Edith Clark in Science. she was a pioneer in this field and was inducted into the engineering Hall of fame posthumously (after her death). She was instrumental in designing and building the Hoover Dam in The United States of America. We were inspired and…
Freestanding structures
We are exploring freestanding structures in our DT topic this half term.
Our challenge this week was to create a bridge that could support the weight of a toy car, using just 8 pieces of A4 paper and sellotape. We had to think about how we could change the shape of the paper, for example by…
A Sense of Place
Braving the cold weather, years 5 and 6 ventured outside with their view-finders to help them sketch settings and patterns around the school’s exterior.
Fossil hunting
Our new history topic is all about Mary Anning. We learned that she was a famous palaeontologist who made some incredible discoveries! We tried fossil hunting for ourselves and studied them with the magnifying glasses. We even used our dinosaur books to help us identify which dinosaurs we had…
Big Write Nativity Dress Up Day
Today the children were invited to come into school dressed as a character from the story of the Nativity. As you can see, there was an array of different characters with unique costume ideas. The children then spent the morning exploring the Nativity story and looking at how Mary and Joseph may…
DT Day - Making Battery Operated Light
This week we are completing our Design and Technology term,y project, making battery operated lights. Today we have been exploring how lights have evolved over years, recapping how to use an electrical circuit with homemade switches and then designing our own ideas. There are some very interesting…
Finding the total
Year 2 have been working hard in Maths this week, adding together the prices of objects to find the total. They then had to find the correct coins and notes to pay for their items.
Fairy Tale Disaster
In Year 1 and 2 we have been reading the story ‘The Great Fairy Tale Disaster’. We will be writing our own innovated versions of the story and needed to gather ideas about what the Big Bad Wolf may do if he entered different fairy tales. We worked well in our groups, discussing our ideas and…
An Exciting Ethos Meeting!
Christmas came early for Ethos Council today as we had a very exciting parcel to unwrap. It was the Big Frieze by Emma Yarlett and as we unwrapped it, we quickly realised just how big the Big Frieze really is! Once we had unpackaged it our job was to decide where it should go, then we had the…
Paralympian Visit
On Monday, we had a visit from Stuart Robinson. He is an amazing athlete who competed as part of our Team GB rugby team. We took part in a mini circuit of exercises; it was great fun and exhausting at the same time.