Year 1 had a special visitor come along to their classes this week! It was the famous historical monarch Elizabeth I! The children were amazed to learn about the wonderful and interesting life she had led. They found out a range of exciting facts about...
This week, we have emersed ourselves in the story ‘Monkey Puzzle’. We have continued to retell the story using small world figures and puppets. We have turned our role play area into a jungle tree house. We have been learning about animals that are found...
We had some very exciting news this week in Nursery when we were asked to look after some eggs for Wellgate Farm. The farmer explained to us how to look after them – by adding some water each day into the incubator. After 19 days...
This week we have been learning about the concept of ‘more’ in maths. Using two characters we gave them each some items and the children needed to point to the character who had ‘more’. The children then explained how they knew the answer, many children...
We used our maths and fine motor skills this week. Using chalks, we made marks in the garden. Some of us practised writing numerals in the garden too. It was quite tricky at times but we did not give up. [gallery ids="20039,20040,20041,20042,20043,20044"]...
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"]...