Making Igloos
We learned how the Inuit people, who live in the Arctic, build igloos or homes made from ice. We then used different materials to try and build our own igloos. On a small scale, we used marshmallows and sugar cubes to build mini igloos. Some of the children went into...
Grab a Grown Up
Thank you to all the adults who joined us for the ‘Grab-a-grown up’ activity session with Jess. The children practised key movement skills as well as working on throwing, rolling and aiming at a target. They needed to listen carefully to instructions, follow the rules...
Feeding the Birds
As part of our topic work on winter, we learnt about how the cold, icy weather makes life difficult for some animals, particularly birds. We decided to make some bird feeders and hang them up in the outdoor area to help the birds. We mixed some bird seed and lard...
Chance to Shine
This week children in Years 2 - 6 started their ‘Chance to Shine’ cricket lessons. They had fun developing their throwing and catching skills and are looking forward to next week to practice their batting skills.
Christmas Orienteering Team Event
The first of our end of term team events was Christmas Orienteering. A big thank you to Jess for organising the event. Red Team came in 4th place, Green and Blue Teams drew in 2nd place and Yellow Team who were awarded a bonus 100 points for their Year 6 team...
Christmas Lunch
Christmas lunch went down a storm. We welcomed Friends of the School and our Governors to join in the fun. Everyone had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the festivities. A big thank you to Nicole and Lisa, our kitchen staff, for providing a delicious lunch!
Christmas Craft Sessions With Parents
We invited parents and grandparents into nursery to share some of the Christmas magic with their children. They were very busy making bags of reindeer food to take home, decorating cakes with Christmas sprinkles, measuring how tall they are to create a memory bauble...
Weight and Mass
In our Science lesson, we have been working on forces and gravitational pull. We learnt about the difference between ‘mass’ and ‘weight’. After weighing the mass of objects and then how many newtons that are exerted on the same object, we found a relationship...
Virtual Lessons About Romans
We enjoyed the virtual Roman lessons a lot and doing the worksheets was great fun because we learnt our age in Roman numerals. It was very fun to learn about how they wrote and, even though we use other numbers these days, Roman numerals are still known and taught at...
Squares and Rectangles
In maths, the children have been learning about squares and rectangles. They know that both these shapes have 4 sides, but a square has 4 sides the same length. They went on a walk round school looking for things that were squares or rectangles. They sorted shapes...