Chinese New Year

This afternoon, we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have discussed how they prepare for New Year’s Day and how it is celebrated. We have been taste testing Chinese food this afternoon and it was really yummy! We tried noodles, rice and prawn crackers. Our favourite was prawn crackers, then noodles and finally rice but we enjoyed them all! We have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year today and we are looking forward Read more

Feeding the birds

Last week in Reception, we made bird feeders. The weather was really bad so we decided to make food for the birds in case they couldn’t find any. We needed to butter two sides of a piece of bread and then dip it in bird seed. Then we threaded Cheerios onto a pipe cleaner and threaded the pipe cleaner through the bread so we could hang them up. We had lots of threading to do Read more

Woodland Explorers

Today in Willows we received a letter from Mr Fox, inviting us to a special woodland party, deep in the woods. We were so excited! We brainstormed things we needed to do to prepare for the party and got to work. We decided we needed to: Make masks to help us look like some of the woodland creatures that might be at the party Create some decorations to take to the party Design cards to Read more

Circulation Models

Year 6 have continued to demonstrate their impressive knowledge of the Circulatory system. The children have been able to recall many of the features of the system, even including some of the valves and vessels they have researched independently. . After recalling an amazing amount of information, the children were then given a limited number of junk materials and set the challenge of making a model to show the path blood takes through the Circulatory Read more

Medieval Medicine

Oh no! Miss Smith has caught the plague. It’s up to year 5 to save her. We experimented with different medicines from medieval times to try and conquer the nasty yersinia pestis (the bacteria that causes the plague) here are pictures of our experiment.

Fun in the Snow ❄️

This morning we have been having lots of fun in the snow. It was really cold but we all wrapped up warm and put our wellies on. We all spent our time doing different things in the snow. Some of us made snowballs and started adding them together. Others have been writing letters and numbers in the snow. Some of us even made different sized snowballs and compared the size and weight of them. After Read more