Whole School
Christmas jumper and dinner day!
Today, we have celebrated Christmas Jumper day and enjoyed our delicious Christmas dinner. We’ve really enjoyed singing and dancing away to Christmas music.
English
Elf Story Editing
This morning, the children walked in and found that our class elves had been listening to our English lessons and had written their own ‘Christmas Star’ story. However, when the children began to read the Elf’s work, they noticed quite a few mistakes. We decided we would help them improve by editing their work. The adults photocopied the story and we set to work with our purple polishing pens, looking for and correcting mistakes. We Read more
English
Merry Grinchmas
This morning Year 5 had a very rude visitor to class in the form of Mr Grinch himself! The children will be using the visit as inspiration to write a persuasive letter trying to convince the Grinch not to steal Christmas. He managed to wreck our Christmas tree, throw our books and dress up with our tinsel, but the worst part of all…he stole our chocolate! If thats not enough reason to write a fantastic Read more
Geography
Geography – Fieldwork
This afternoon, both year 6 classes went to Queen’s Park to carry out fieldwork linked with our Geography topic – fieldwork. The children used their knowledge of conducting fieldwork and field sketches to carry out a sketch of our local area. They used an acronym OASIS (orientation, annotations, scales information and sight) to support their sketch. The children also conducted a traffic and colour of vehicle survey on their way to the park, this date Read more
English
A visit from the Grinch!
This morning Year 5 were rudely interrupted during our English lesson. The grinch came in whilst we were planning our persuasive letters. He ruined our Christmas tree, stole our decorations and ignored the children when they tried to persuade him to love Christmas. This has given us more of a reason to write our persuasive letters. The children went on to add lots of persuasive techniques to their plans.
After school club
Afterschool Circus Club
This half-term, 20 Year 2 and 3 children took part in an afterschool club to learn circus skills. We learnt how to juggle with scarves, do tricks with flower sticks, balance feathers on different body parts, how to spin plates and do various tricks with them and much more. Well done to all the children! They were fantastic! Please look out for a feedback form coming home with your child, the feedback will hopefully enable Read more
Religious Education
Angels at Christmas
As part of our learning, in the lead up to Christmas, we have been discussing angels and whether or not we believe in them. Many religions talk about angels. Christians believe that angels are God’s special messengers and, in the Christmas story, angels bring special messages to various people. Today we spent time thinking about the role of angels in the Christmas story with the children working together to order how the angels appeared throughout Read more
Learning for Life
Juniper’s Advent Promises
Juniper have thought really carefully about their advent promises this year. We have beautifully decorated our advent candles with a promise that we are going to try to keep throughout Advent. Well done everyone!
Christian Values
Year 2’s Advent promises
In our class reflective worship this week, we thought about the time of advent. We discussed how this time of year is an exciting time but can also be a difficult/sad time for some people. We then thought about courageous advocacy, the inspirational people we have read about and our Christian values, before writing an advent promise. We had some lovely, kind thoughts and ideas such as “I will pray everyday for people to have Read more
Mathematics
Shape Hunt
This week in Maths we have been learning about shapes. We have been using shapes in different ways to investigate their properties. We have then been on a shape hunt to find different shapes in the environment. Everyone has enjoyed learning about 2D and 3D shapes.