News

Saturday 10th October was World Mental Health Day  Use some time this week to focus on your own mental health and wellbeing. Wellbeing should be a priority for adults as well as children especially with the uncertainty of the world at the moment. This week’s activities are designed to promote discussion and reflection around what contributes to positive mental health and …

This week in art we have been learning about pointillism and have looked at the work of Georges Seurat. We had a go at creating our very own fruit pictures using the pointillism technique. I think Seurat himself would be very impressed!

This week has been such a busy week in Reception Class. We have been introduced to the letter sounds c, k, u, b, and f.  We have looked at mixing colours on coffee filters, collecting conkers, making and flying kites, investigating boxes and bubbles and visiting the allotment to see what flowers and vegetables we could find underground. We are …

We had a fun maths lesson today all about 2d shapes. We played bingo, dominoes, made shapes with the peg boards, had a feely bag and lots of other activities too. We had lots of fun whilst consolidating our 2d shapes.  

Year 6 are enjoying learning about Frida Kahlo and have worked well using different mediums to recreate some of her famous self portraits. We will soon be moving onto exploring portraits in more detail and eventually  we should be able to recreate a full portrait of Frida as well as ourselves once we have practised working on our proportions. We …

Connor is our reader of the week this week. You have tried so hard this week with your reading and it has been lovely to hear that you are developing a love of reading and books again. Well done Connor! We are so proud of you.  

Year 6 have been working really hard to make progress on reading plus, reading carefully, using the re-read button to check their answers when carrying out comprehensions, learning new vocabulary in the vocabulary section and have recently started producing short pieces of writing linked to texts they have read. Our word count is unstoppable and the combos keep rising. Well …

Article 13 is about our right to share our thoughts and feelings. It is our right to an opinion as long as it does not hurt others. It is really important that we share our thoughts and feelings and are supported by our friends and family.   A reminder of what Article 13 means: Time to think: Rights Respecting Tasks …

This term in DT we are looking at structures at the park. We will be designing and making a mini structure. Today we enjoyed using a range of construction materials to make slides, sea-saws, swings, zip wires and roundabouts. `We enjoyed working together and sharing our ideas. Next week we will be looking at different ways to join different materials.

This term Year 3 are investigating whether the UK is the same everywhere. In today’s lesson we set up a map from memory exercise to help us observe physical features of the UK. Each group had to send one person at a time to look at the large map of the UK to find out where the key physical features …

As well as learning to play the violin, we are also learning to rap and sing using sign language. Take a look at our Happy Llama, Sad Llama.  

Last Thursday was National Poetry Day and we celebrated by listening to, reading, writing and sharing some of our favourites!   

Enjoying a bit of role play to help us prepare for our writing. Do you know the Old Testament story about Ruth? We do now!

Reception Class had lots of fun in their ICT lesson this week. Mr Graham took a group outside and set the children some challenges to carry out with their digital cameras. Who could take a photograph of something made of plastic, wood etc. Inside the children worked with the Bee Bots. They had to make them move forwards, backwards and …

We have been reading Pirates Love Underpants in english and written some fabulous letters in a bottle. We have also been doing some tricky work on our doubles in maths too. Well done Year 1 on another fantastic week, keep it up!

Our first readers of the week in Year 2! Well done girls. We are very proud of you.  

After reading the story ‘The Colour Monster,’ Year 2 enjoyed making a feelings wheel. We have all been really keen to use our wheels each morning and afternoon to say how we are feeling. Sometimes we feel happy, sometimes we feel sad and sometimes we just feel all mixed up like the Colour Monster does. Mrs Wilkinson is teaching us …