In Year Two, we have started to read a new text: Jack and the Beanstalk. The children spent the first week reading and exploring the story. One of these ways was through hot seating. Seven children were brave enough to come to the front to answer questions in character. Super work!
This week in Year Five we have been very productive in all areas of our curriculum. We completed our magnificent paintings of the Solar System inspired by Chesley Bonestell. To complete our brilliant designs, we used our sketching skills combined with effective use of acrylic paints. We are all very proud of our work! Also,…
Reception have really enjoyed their second week of the Gingerbread Man story. This week they have learned to retell the story themselves, written a version of the story, decorated their own gingerbread men and made gingerbread men bird feeders, which we then took up into the woods for the birds. The children are settling back…
The results of our book cover competition can finally be revealed… The majority of staff refused to judge the competition as it was just too difficult based on the amazing, truly creative masterpieces that we received so the job had to be delegated to Mrs Bailey and Mrs Dawson. After much deliberation, they decided that…
Year Five have made a super return back to school this week. They have been celebrating British Science Week by conducting scientific enquiries for our materials topic. For their first enquiry they went outside to observe which materials they could identify and the properties of them. Afterwards, they used these properties to explain why the…
Well done to all our amazing children for their response to our writing competition. There were lots of amazing pieces entered into the competition and this made it so difficult for the class teachers to decide on an overall winner. The children who won the competition were awarded with an Amazon voucher and there were…
Reception have had a very exciting return to school. On Monday, we started a new story, the Gingerbread Man. As part of our activities, we investigated what would happen if the Gingerbread man fell into a variety of different liquids. We experimented with water, coke, vinegar and oil. Straight away, the Gingerbread man in the…
On World Book Day, Year Four were very fortunate to be able to ‘meet’ Dr Lynne Bianchi, the author of Smart Pickings book, for a question and answer session. Lynne told us all about her early life, how she trained to be a primary teacher and how she now works at Manchester University, working to…
It has been such an exciting week for the Nursery children both at home and school with lots of different book week activities to enjoy. The children have been very busy writing book reviews, making bookmarks, creating their own under the sea scene and story, reading lots of new stories and lots more! Here are…
What a fabulous week Reception have had for our last week of Lockdown and also for our Book Week. We have had so many exciting activities to choose from and had the opportunity to be as creative as possible. We have produced some amazing pieces of work and learned so many new things. We loved…