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Science Workshop May 2024

Science Workshop May 2024

On Friday 17th May, parents/carers of children in Year 1 and Year 2 were invited into school for a fun-filled Science afternoon! The children completed a range of activities such as building towers using spaghetti and marshmallows, making lava lamps and creating rain...

“Save or Spend” May 2024

“Save or Spend” May 2024

Last half-term, children in Key Stage 1 took part in 'Save or Spend' whereby classes earnt money by working towards their targets. Year 1's target was to do good sitting and good listening. The children got a lot better at their targets throughout the course of the...

“Save or Spend” May 2024

“Save or Spend” May 2024

The children in Year 2 have worked really hard so far this year and staff thought the children deserved a treat. As part of save or spend, the children focused on doing good listening, lining up and demonstrating good learning behaviours throughout school. The...

Waste Week Campaign March 2024

Waste Week Campaign March 2024

Our Eco monitors were very busy checking waste and recycling bins in school during the annual 'Waste Week' campaign 18th - 24th March. As part of this campaign, children were challenged to use recycled materials at home to create a new Eco mascot. We loved seeing...

Practical Homework Y1 & Y2 May 2024

Practical Homework Y1 & Y2 May 2024

As part of Year 1 and Year 2's homework, children can choose whether they want to complete the formal (written) task or the practical task within their homework pack each week. This is a perfect way to support individual children's learning needs.  There are many...

Engineer competition May 2024

Engineer competition May 2024

If you were an engineer what would you do? KS1 children have taken part in an inspiring competition developed by a Primary Engineer STEM programme. Children were encouraged to imagine if they were an engineer, what problem would they most like to solve? Before this,...

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

This half term in the 2-year provision our topic has been ‘Why do spiders eat flies?' The children have enjoyed accessing various activities around our provision such as, using tweezers to catch the spiders in the web, and then counting them.  Then matching the...

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

This half term Nursery has been focusing on the topic 'Why do spiders eat flies?'. We have learnt all about minibeasts and their habitats and plants. We have all really enjoyed planting our own sunflowers, making sure we gave them enough water and putting them...

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

Well, what a busy start to our term! Our topic is called 'Why do spiders eat flies?' . So far in our topic we have spoken about all the different minibeasts we might find in our gardens, we then enjoyed going outdoors and exploring the Foundation Stage yard to see...

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

“Why do spiders eat flies?”

The children in class 2 have had a busy start to this half-term!  Our topic is 'why do spiders eat flies?' and we have been learning all about different minibeasts.  We have painted repeating pattern caterpillars, made symmetrical patterns on butterfly wings and...

Ladybirds – Class 8 May 2024

Ladybirds – Class 8 May 2024

This half term, class 8 children have been learning about mono printing and using clay in Art. Year 1 children have created ladybirds. They had to think carefully about how they rolled out the legs and attached them to the body using water. The Year 2 children created...

“Enchanted Woodland”

“Enchanted Woodland”

This half term, children in Class 9 have been learning about plants in Science. The children know that in order to survive, plants need light, water and heat. For one of our lessons, we used magnifying glasses to identify the different parts of a dandelion plant such...

Easter April 2024

Easter April 2024

The children had an “eggciting” day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and ‘Easter Bonnet/Hat parade’. It was “eggcellent” seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...

Easter 2024

Easter 2024

The children had an “eggciting” day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and ‘Easter Bonnet/Hat parade’. It was “eggcellent” seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...

Easter March 2024

Easter March 2024

Nursery children had an "eggcellent" time on Wednesday 27th March completing the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. In addition to this the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children also took part in an ‘Egg Rolling’ activity. It was fantastic to see...

Rock Steady Concert March 2024

Rock Steady Concert March 2024

On Thursday 28th March, some children participated in a 'Rock Steady' concert. The children have been rehearsing weekly and performing as part of a band. Within the band the children had the opportunity to either play the drums, guitar, keyboard or they took on the...

World Book Day

World Book Day

During World book week the children had a fun week in the 2-year provision. The children loved to come to school dressed up in their favourite costumes. The book we had chosen was 'The three little pigs'. they loved this story, especially the part when the...

World Book Day March 2024

World Book Day March 2024

Nursery celebrated world book day by focusing on the book 'The Great Goat Chase' the children enjoyed creating different animals linked to the story through a variety of crafts. Such as clay models, using paper plates to create goats and using a wide variety of...

Reception World Book Day

Reception World Book Day

The children in Reception had a fantastic day for World Book Day.  We had lots of great costumes for our favourite book characters!  Our focus story for the day was 'The Little Red Hen' and lots of children brought in some fantastic homework crafts based on the...

Easter 2024

Easter 2024

The children had an "eggciting" day taking part in a range of Easter activities including the ‘Best Decorated Egg’, ‘Egg Rolling’ and 'Easter Bonnet/Hat parade'. It was "eggcellent" seeing the fantastic creations that both you are your child completed. Thank you for...

Are eggs alive?

Are eggs alive?

In Nursery this half term we have been focusing on the topic 'Are Eggs Alive'. The children were fascinated from the moment the eggs arrived in Nursery to them hatching and handling their chicks. We have also learnt about the signs of Spring and animals on the farm....

Are eggs alive?

Are eggs alive?

This term in the 2 year provision our topic has been 'Are eggs alive?' The children watched our eggs in the incubator keeping warm until they hatched and were very excited to see the little chicks inside. We talked about the chicks and using our kind fingers the...

Are eggs alive?

Are eggs alive?

During Spring 2 our topic has been 'Are eggs alive?' where we have learnt all about spring, animals that hatch from eggs and the life-cycle of a hen.  The children in class 2 were very excited when we had a delivery of some eggs!  We learnt that the eggs were kept in...

Are eggs alive?

Are eggs alive?

Well what an 'eggciting' start to our half term... Our topic is called 'Are Eggs Alive?' and the eggs arriving at school were a great stimulus to fully immerse our children into their learning. The children have found out lots about chickens including their lifecycle,...

Storyteller

Storyteller

Nursery enjoyed having the story teller come and visit us. She acted out lots of different stories with us. She used musical instruments and props to tell her tales. She even let us join in with acting out the story of 'The Enormous Turnip', which was very fun indeed!

“Bright Lights Big City”

“Bright Lights Big City”

This half-term our topic is 'Bright Lights Big City'. In their Computing lessons, Class 9 have learnt about algorithms. The children know that an 'algorithm' is a set of instructions designed to complete a task and that computers can follow algorithms, just like...

Class 8 playing the xylophones!

Class 8 playing the xylophones!

This half term, children have begun learning familiar nursery rhymes on the xylophones which they will be performing to the Nursery children in a few weeks. Class 8 children have focussed incredibly hard and they have ensured they followed the rhythm of the song and...

Class 7 Geography Walk

Class 7 Geography Walk

Class 7 enjoyed a walk round the local area as part of their Geography learning. The children loved putting their knowledge to the test identifying physical and human features in the surrounding areas of the school and recorded the features on a map using symbols in a...

Where does the snow go?

Where does the snow go?

Last half term our topic in the 2-year provision was “Where does the snow go” We talked about snow and how cold it is and how we need to wear our hats, gloves and scarves when we play out in it. A range of activities were available around the room. Frozen balls of ice...

World Book Day

World Book Day

Class 9 have had a fabulous World Book Day! The children came in a variety of amazing costumes and were excited to show each other who they had come as! This year we focused on the book 'Monkey Puzzle' by Julia Donaldson. After reading the story, we were joined by...