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…
It has been lovely to welcome back Year Two this week. They have quickly settled back into our routines and are already producing some cracking work! This week, the children took part in an investigation as part of British Science Week. They have been learning about materials and have been introduced to the words opaque,…
During Monday’s lesson Year Six’s discussed variables which change within a fair test. We discussed how we could create a fair test, and investigated the effectiveness of how animals use different beaks when hunting for food. Children used different pieces of equipment to represent the beaks: sharp tweezers for the sharp beak of eagles; flat…
Welcome back to Year One who have amazed us with their smiles, super effort and energy since returning to school! As part of our learning during British Science Week, we have ventured outside to spot signs of seasonal change and have continued to observe patterns over time. We found daisies, daffodils, curled up leaves and…
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…
Year One have loved World Book Week, investigating their gifted text, ‘Where the sea meets the shore’ and ‘Flotsam’ and finding out more about the sea and the creatures hidden in there. They have written amazing acrostic poems, thought about what characters may say and designed super bookmarks. The children in school had a pirate…
What a lot of exciting learning that went on last week in Reception. Our story of the week was The Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards. The children all made ‘nice’ sandwiches as well as disgusting ones. We hung our disgusting ones in the woods for the wildlife. Don’t worry it wasn’t too disgusting, a mixture…
Year two have kept up the same enthusiasm for their learning as they had before half term. It’s been wonderful to see all the hard work they have all put in this week. It’s making all the staff in year two very excited to welcome you back next week and share some of the great…
The children in Year Three, both at home and in school, blew us away with their hard work last week. They wrote some amazing openings to adventure stories about exploring Egyptian tombs, created fantastic food diaries, completed some magnificent money maths and lots more! We are so proud of you all. Keep up the amazing…
Since their return from a restful half term, the children of Year Five have continued to work exceptionally hard and make us all extremely proud. Last week, the children got creative as we focused on our artist of the term, ‘Edvard Munch’. They took inspiration from his piece the ‘The Sun’ and designed their own…