On Saturday 9th May 2020, people across the world will be celebrating World Fair Trade Day. On this day, people celebrate Fair Trade’s contribution to the fight against poverty, exploitation and climate change. A couple of months ago, the children had an assembly on Fair Trade so they should already have an awareness of this…
This morning, you may have noticed a new link on our home learning page on the website. If you follow the link, it will give you details of how to access Oddizzi, a Geography-based learning website. Here, you will be able to explore the world through facts, videos and photos! There are also quizzes, which…
As part of their continued science learning about seasonal change, Year One have braved the showers and been in to the school grounds and woods! They found daisies, new shoots on trees, spring flowers and signs of new life in the mud with small insects and birds. Great observational skills everyone! 💐 Can you spot…
Nursery have had a lovely morning walking to the Post Office! We even saw a postman delivering the mail on the way who stopped to have a photo with us. Every one of us very politely asked for a stamp, handed over a coin and posted a very special letter! We walked very sensibly and…
Reception are really enjoying this term’s topic of Food. This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza’ and today we walked to the Co-op in Milton to buy ingredients to make our own pizzas. We also did a treasure hunt round the shop where we had to find certain food items,…
Reception, Year 1 and a Year 2 have been lucky enough to receive a visit from James and Mike from Great Grounds! They are arborists who shared a range of safety equipment before demonstrating some extremely noisy chainsaws! The children loved watching the wood chipper, despite the wayward sawdust that was created! They were then…
Year One have begun learning about the Great Fire of London! In Maths they completed times tables flame challenges using dot to dots, in History they’ve been finding facts and in English, telling the story of ‘Toby’ a character who lived during the fire. They’re also using their Geography skills to locate the United Kingdom…
We were lucky enough to have Isaac’s dad come in to talk to us about his experiences in Africa. He put together a brilliant presentation about his travels including some exciting souvenirs for us all to look at. A huge thank you!
A huge thank you to all the adults who attended the Year Two showcase last week. There was some brilliant map work and art work on display by both children and adults and I’m sure you were as impressed as I was by the children’s understanding of continents and oceans. Well done!
Nursery have read the story ‘Lost and Found’ this week by Oliver Jeffers. We’ve spent the week exploring tuff trays containing different textures, creating penguin themed artwork and learning about blubber! We investigated the difference between placing our hand onto an ice pack and having a layer of ‘blubber’ (lard!) between our hands and the…