Year Three’s Jubilee Snacks

Year Three have been planning to create a healthy snack to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum jubilee. They have decided to create fruit skewers and have explored existing designs, considering what they’d like their snacks to look like. Next week we will be taste testing and developing our preparation and  cutting skills to create our own […]

Playground Games in Reception

This week Reception listened to a story about some children who needed to practise playing nicely together and taking turns. Following on from the story, the children went outside to learn some new playground games that they could play at playtime and dinnertime. They played Soldiers and Sausages, Skittles, Duck, duck, goose and What’s the […]

Nursery’s Visit to Manchester Airport

What a fantastic day we had at Manchester Airport! The children created their own passports and checked in on the Monarch DC10 where they had the opportunity to climb in the cockpit and use the pilots controls. We learnt about the different parts of the aeroplane and the roles of different people in the airport […]

Athletics in Year Five

This half term in Year Five, our P.E. has been focused on athletics. We have been training in a range of events from the sprint to the egg and spoon. Each week the children have been implementing their maths skills to record their times/scores and taking a weekly average.  

Geography in Year One

Year One have been using maps, atlases and globes to locate where they live in the world! We know that the UK is made up of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and we have studied the seas that surround the UK. We have also found out more about climates all over the world, learning that […]

Nursery’s Amazing Art

This week the children have had a selection of paint and using thin paintbrushes have been working very hard to paint a picture of a train. We had some lovely designs and lots of rainbow coloured trains, we were so impressed with their concentration while they completed their paintings. Well done Nursery!

Money in Year Two

In the Autumn term, we learnt about money in Year Two. We learnt to recognise coins and add and subtract various amounts. This term, we are learning about how to manage our money. We have learnt where money comes from and in this lesson, we debated the differences between needs and wants.

Mechanisms in Year Five

This week, Year Five have begun their DT project on mechanical systems. Their stimulus is to focus on fun fair rides and how they have changed between the past and present. Currently, the children have investigated with mechanisms to see how to speed up their ride and ensure it travels in the right direction.  

Reception’s visit to St Philip & St James’s church

As part of our RE learning about special places, Reception visited the local church in Milton, where we went in a treasure hunt to find lots of the special features that you might find in a Christian church. The children thoroughly enjoyed the visit and learned lots of new facts.

RE in Year Four

During Our recent RE lesson, we thought about the symbolism of water. The children wrote words to describe water and then washed some of them away. We learnt that Christians use water for baptism because it has many different symbolic meanings. Over the next few weeks we will remember this work when looking at examples […]