Welcome to Year 1. This week both Bumblebee and Ladybird class have settled well into Year 1. They have quickly picked up the new routines and transitioned from Reception with ease. They have created their own set of class rules as a class and explored a...
Welcome to Year 6 This week was full of happy faces as we welcomed back our pupils back to school. We shared stories of our favourite summer holiday activity, hearing a range of answers from visiting family, travelling to a new country and even buying a...
Welcome to Year 5 It was lovely to see our new Year 5 children back in school this week! We had a great first day back completing many different activities such as summer holiday bingo, discussing what makes a great classmate and teacher as well as...
Welcome back! It was lovely to see lots of happy and smiling faces on our return to school this week. We have started our new topic for the term- Ka-Pow! We will be learning about fictional and non-fictional superheroes. Our focus book is ‘Supertato Veggies Assemble’....
This week we welcomed Wellgate Farm and Farmer James to Parsloes. Our pupils in Nursery, Reception and Year 1 have been learning about animals as part of their curriculum themes and this was a . Some other classes were also able to see the animals...
In Year 6 we have been playing golf in PE. We have been learning how to use a golf club, adopting the correct stance and holding the club correctly. We have also practised our close control ball skills, aiming carefully and hitting the ball accurately....
In our Music lessons, Year 5 have been using the glockenspiels to practise the beat in ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’. We started by using the notes, DDA and then progressed into improvising with new notes, DEF, which the children used to create their own...
In Maths this week, we extended our understanding of tenths by exploring them on a number line. We used a range of concrete resources to help reinforce each pupil’s understanding of dividing a number line into ten equal parts, so they can clearly see where...
In our Science lessons this week, we have been learning about light. We have learned that light travels in straight lines. We have been investigating how a shadow is created when a light source is blocked and how the size of the shadow changes. We...
This week we had an interesting visitor in class. We used the Parsloes Time Machine to summon Christopher Columbus into the present! We found out lots of information about him and his voyage to the Americas. We then used what we had found out to...