Plants

Plants

Plants As part of the topic ‘How does your garden grow?’, Reception Class explored different types of plants and learnt the names of the different parts of a plant. They used collage to make aa picture of a plant, making sure it had roots, a stem, leaves and a flower...
VE Day

VE Day

VE Day! We enjoyed a lovely afternoon for VE Day.  We sang Vera Lynn’s song ‘We’ll meet again’, had a picnic as a whole school and then spent the afternoon listening to the stories of those who were around during the World War to keep their stories alive.  Some of us...
OAA at Hamsterley Forest

OAA at Hamsterley Forest

Outdoor Adventures at Hamsterley Forest Today, Class 5 went to Hamsterley Forest as part of an outdoor adventure festival. The class enjoyed a range of activities such as den building, team building and survival skills.  Luckily, our class have shown that they could...
Testing Structures

Testing Structures

To start our new Design and Technology unit, we tested different beam strengths.  In our groups, we picked different designs of beams such as circular and triangular structures.  We then made them and tested their strength by loading 10g weights on top.  We found the...
Measuring

Measuring

Measuring In maths today, we used metre sticks, tape measures and trundle wheels to measure different lengths. We talked about what each piece of equipment would be best suited to measure and then set off around the classroom and outside measuring different objects...