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.
Paralympic Sports
As part of anti bullying week we had Andy Akers visit school today to show us some activities that can be played by athletes with disabilities. Then we were able to have a go for ourselves. The sports we played were goalball, boccia and kurling. We had great fun playing the sports and it also…
The Big Bad Wolf
Reception have been exploring the stories of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. They have particularly enjoyed pretending to be the scary Big Bad Wolf! Some of the children have been making wolf masks in the continuous provision to use in their role play - they worked so hard and…
Visit from a Paralympic Champion - Stuart Robinson
Today we have been lucky enough to have the Paralympic Champion, Stuart Robinson, visit our school and help us to complete a sponsored circuit challenge. We’ve had two weeks to prepare ourselves and collect sponsors before this event. The children worked incredibly hard under the instruction of…
Exploring Day and Night
This afternoon in Science, the children have been explaining how day time and night time occur on earth. We demonstrated how rays of light come from the sun and create light on the parts of earth which are facing the sun, and that the areas that are facing away are in darkness. The children have…
Sukkahs
What a lot of fun we had designing our own model Sukkahs! We had to think really hard about how we could use natural materials and how we could create furniture and decorations. We decided that it must be fun building a real Sukkah and doing it would help you think carefully about the festival of…