This week we have completed a circle time called dinosaur school, we met two characters called Wally and Dina. Dina is the headteacher and Wally goes to the dinosaur school. They arrived in our school to get some help with sitting on the carpet and being kind to others. We shared our ideas with them and we hope they enjoyed visiting us. We will use our ideas in our classroom and on the playground to Read more
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told the story of the Billy goats Gruff making our own bridges. For our writing task, we wrote the story of Jack and the beanstalk and Read more
This week we have carried on reading the story Jack and the beanstalk. This time we have focused on ordering the story and we used character masks to help us. We used language such as first, next, then and last to retell the story and created a story map on the story. In our classroom we had lots of activities set out based around the story and had lots of fun doing them. This Read more
We have been learning lots about Islam this half term and we have remembered lots of facts about Muslims. Today we looked at the festival of Eid and how it is a celebration that happens at the end of Ramadan. While we completed our work we listened to some music then we completed a Happy Eid colouring.
This week the children completed postcards of hope. They coloured in the front of the cards and wrote messages of hope on the back. These were given to us from Morrisons, who will be distributing them with home deliveries and to various places such as Old people’s home. Morrisons also kindly gave us enough ‘seeds of hope’ packets (sunflower seeds) for every child to take some home and some lovely books titled ‘Cedric the Seed’ Read more
Year 5 had a fantastic time at Forest School today! We showed off our knowledge of the area by playing a game where we had to name the flora in the area. We also learnt about a Ghillie kettle and how they can be used to heat water using fire. Once the water was heated, the children enjoyed a hot chocolate with marshmallows. We also learnt a new skill of tying a square lashing to Read more
We had another lovely day of forest school today in Reception… even though the afternoon session had to be moved inside because of the storms! ⛈⚡️ We are getting so good at staying safe and remembering our forest school rules: walking around the circle and not inside it, helping our friends and coming back to the circle when we hear our special wolf howl 🐺 🐺 Today, we used our senses to explore the forest and Read more
We have had lots of fun learning about Minibeasts in our English and topic lessons. We then used this knowledge to help to design and make a minibeast. On our designs we had to make sure they had the correct number of legs and antennas. Once we finished painting them and adding on the extra parts on we took them into Kaden’s garden to put them in their natural habitat.
This week in our maths we have been looking at spatial awareness using language such as in, on, up, down, under and behind. We explored spacial awareness using toys in our class and used a dolls house to explain which rooms we could see and how we knew. We got the chance to play the game snakes and ladders and we found out we could go up the ladder but had to go down the Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘Jack And The Beanstalk’, we found out that Jack threw some magic beans out of the window and a beanstalk grew. At the top of the beanstalk lived a giant in a castle. Jack stole the giant’s gold and then he had to chop down the beanstalk so the giant could not get to him. We talked about the magic beans and what would happen if we Read more