This fun and interactive lesson introduced children to animal body parts and how animals can be grouped by their features. Working in pairs, pupils acted out body parts from the Animal Body Parts presentation—such as tails, fins and trunks—while their partner guessed. They then extended their ideas by inventing actions Read more
Over the past few weeks, 14 of our Year 5 and 6 girls have been taking part in our afterschool dance club, where they have been working hard to prepare for an exciting inter-school dance competition. Throughout the club, the girls focused on developing the Skills Builder essential skills of Read more
Year 1 have absolutely loved celebrating Careers Week and World Book Day this week. Year 1 explored the exciting world of engineering through both their English and DT learning. In English, the children focused on developing their oracy skills by working in groups to create toy adverts for their marble Read more
Year 1, have been working hard on finding the difference. Today we our numbers.
This half-term in after-school club, we have been developing our essential skill of problem solving through a range of engaging and active challenges. Pupils have taken part in activities such as the Human Knot, where teamwork and communication were key to untangling themselves, as well as exciting code-breaking tasks that Read more
This half-term, Year 1 have been exploring the art skill of creating 3D forms using paper. During our recent lesson, the children worked collaboratively to design and build a large spider model inspired by Maman by Louise Bourgeois. We used a variety of techniques to turn newspaper and tape into Read more
To celebrate National Storytelling Week, Year 1 took part in an online workshop with author. Annemarie taught us how to explore the magic of storytelling through music and rythm. As she read through her book ‘I am Nefertiti’ we explored how we could use our bodies to make music to Read more
In collective worship this week, we talked about self-efficacy, which means believing in ourselves and knowing that we can do things, even when they feel tricky. We watched the story of The Hare and the Tortoise and talked about what it teaches us. The hare thought he would win because Read more
In Science this week, Year 1 focused their learning on the senses of taste and touch. We began with a “feely bag” activity, where the children took turns placing their hands inside and using their sense of touch to describe and guess the object inside. Some children repeated the activity Read more
In Art, we have been looking at how we can use paper to create 3D sculptures. We have made paper based 3D art forms using techniques such as rolling and folding paper.