In Year 6 this week we have launched our new English topic. We have read the beginning of ‘The Explorer’ where children are on a plane flying over the Amazon, when the plane crashes. This led us to re-enact the scene where the plane goes...
Year 5 have been learning about gravity in science. We investigated how long you can stay in the air for when you jump and how quickly an object will fall, when thrown from a height. We discovered that gravity pulls the object down and all...
As part of our creative hook for our new topic, I Believe in Unicorns, Year 4 created a new world and journeyed from the known into the unknown using a portal story format. Surrounded by an array of forest-inspired resources, each group created a story,...
Year 3 travelled back in time to explore different Ancient Civilisations this week. We learned why Ancient Civilisations were built near a river and how people began to record their ideas in writing, meaning that historians have been able to learn about how people lived...
This week in Talk for Writing, for our creative hook we explored the underwater sea world, where we created our own imaginative stories, just like Tiddler the storyteller did. We are looking forward to learning more about the story. [gallery ids="19980,19981,19982,19983,19984"]...
To kick off our new unit, Year 1 enjoyed a magical viewing of ‘The Tiger who Came to Tea’ as their Entry Point! The classic story by Judith Kerr instantly captured the children’s imaginations and set the stage for a term of creativity to design...
When we returned to school on Tuesday, we discovered a mysterious letter in our classroom. We used our phonics skills to help us to read the letter. It was from a baby monkey, asking us to help him to find his mummy! The monkey also...
This week in Nursery, we have started our new topic: ‘It’s a Bug’s Life’. For our Entry Point, we created our own spider web and watched a video of how spiders make their webs, which we all found very interesting! In our English lessons, we...
Children in the Meadow class have settled back into routine really well, since the Easter break. This week we have practised the skill of using cookie cutters and spreading. Children cut shapes out of pancakes and used their spreading skills to apply butter. Obviously all...
It was lovely to see happy, smiling faces as we returned to school this week. We were especially happy as it was our turn to have Rupa, the best attendance rabbit, who came to visit us. Our class had the best attendance, 100%, for the...