Year Six have been designated the task of building Jim Jarvis, from our English test ‘Street Child’, a market stall to sell his shrimps. Children are testing out the stability and sturdiness of existing designs before planning their own design and experimenting with joints. We will be eventually making our own market stalls out of […]
In Geography, the children have been enjoying learning about the different stage and features of rivers. They have also enjoyed reading about the journey of a river in shared reading.
Reception have been working hard on their phonics and writing skills this week. We have now begun to learn the digraphs ch, sh and th and are beginning to use them in words and sentences. Here we are practising writing sometimes these words. Well done Reception, we are so proud of you.
Reception have been thinking carefully about what makes us different this week and how we should embrace that. We loved showing our odd socks and talking about the different patterns. We also talked about how wonderful and interesting our world and the people in it are and how it would be boring if we were […]
For their homework, the year two children have been learning a poem. They practised at home and today, they recited their poems off by heart. They were amazing!
This afternoon, Reception recreated the story of Rama and Sita exploring in the woods. They had a fantastic time and even made up their own Diwali song, accompanied by a range of musical instruments. Fantastic Reception.
This week, the children have started their English unit all about non-chronological reports. They enjoyed reading a range of reports all about the Romans and learnt some interesting new facts. Why not ask your child what new facts they have learnt? Over the next couple of weeks, we will be continuing to look at the […]
On Monday, the whole school explored the big story of the bible. Following an introductory assembly by Mrs Ashton, each class took one of the key concepts to investigate in more detail. The concepts being Creation, Fall, People of God, Incarnation, Gospel, Salvation, Kingdom of God. The children were fascinated and enjoyed the wide range […]
This week we have been learning about the Diwali festival. The children have listened to and recalled The story of Rama and Sita, used small world to retell the story, made rangoli patterns and decorated mendhi hands. We have talked about the firework displays that are a big part of the Diwali celebrations and had […]
Reception have been developing their computing skills this week by programming the Beebots to move around the carpet and painting firework pictures using Purple Mash. Well done Reception. The next steps for the Beebots are to programme them to move to a specific location. This is something that we will be working on, over the […]