Our new topic this half term is Design and Build. On Monday morning a parcel was delivered to the office which contained clues to our new book. The children were all very excited when Mrs Fairweather brought a wheelbarrow into the classroom containing straw, sticks,...
Welcome back to the last half term of this academic year. In Nursery, we have started this week looking at our new unit – ‘Budding Builders’. We have turned our role play area into a construction site and we have spoken about what builders need...
Despite the weather we have had a good start to our new half term. We made jam tarts using the rubbing and kneading method to make our own pastry! First, we sieved the flour and rubbed the butter in to make a bread crumb texture....
To start the first week back our entry point was a treasure hunt. Our new story is Zog which is about a dragon. The children needed to find different parts of a dragon, hidden around the room. Once they had them they needed to put...
In Talk for Writing this term we are going to be learning to write a journey tale. This week, we have been exploring different settings. We have been thinking of different adjectives to describe each setting. We have been building up a bank of vocabulary...
This term we are learning to work as a team and problem solve through the skills of orienteering. This week we used PE equipment and a map to create a face. It was good fun collaborating and using our communication skills to work together! [gallery ids="24473,24474,24475,24476,24477,24478,24479,24480,24481"]...
This week, Year 3 proudly shared their homework projects inspired by The Wild Robot. Using the knowledge and skills they have developed in DT about free standing structures, the children designed and created dens for Roz. We were incredibly impressed by the creativity, effort and...
In Geography, we have been learning about the structure of the Earth. We started our lesson by watching some videos showing erupting volcanoes, earthquakes in action and tsunamis. We used an egg to illustrate the Earth’s structure, discussing the crust, the mantle and the core....
Last half term we delivered our final moving toy products to the younger children of the school. They really enjoyed playing with it and seeing how each character moves. We also evaluated our final pieces against our own judgements and what the younger children said...
Year 6 has started writing this term focusing on the aspect of being stranded in an unfamiliar setting. They read extracts from The Explorer by Katherine Rundell and Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, identifying emotive language and themes the make an engaging adventure story. They...