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Outdoor Learning

Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed learning outdoors. The children have enjoyed their Forest School sessions with Miss Brown they have collected natural resources to create art work and used their imaginations to create animals.  They have also created finger art work. Within the outdoor provisions areas, year 1 have enjoyed sensory play whilst learning their phonic sounds. Furthermore, we have used outdoor resources to complete our current science about plants. Looking for wild and garden Read more

By Miss Jones, ago

Week 7 Lava Lamp

Well done to the children who recently created their own lava lamps using water, oil, food colouring, and a fizzy tablet, turning a simple activity into an engaging science investigation at home. They observed how oil floats on water due to differences in density and learned that the two liquids do not mix, while the fizzy tablet produced gas bubbles that carried coloured water up through the oil before it sank back down, creating the Read more

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

The Gingerbread Man

Over the past two weeks in Reception, we’ve been having lots of fun learning all about ‘The Gingerbread Man’! The children really enjoyed listening to the story and joining in with the repeated phrases. We then acted it out together, with everyone taking on different roles and having a go at retelling the story in their own way. We also planned and designed our own gingerbread before making them. We started off by designing our Read more

By Mrs Marsh, ago

The Naughty Bus

This week the naughty bus has been causing mischief in our classroom! On Monday it knocked over all of our scarves and instruments and brought us the naughty bus book to read. We read all about the messy things he got up to in his owners house such as crashing through his breakfast, driving up the banister, falling into the pond etc. The children had lots of fun feeling the baked beans that the naughty Read more

By Mrs Greenwood, ago

Grouping Animals and Recording Data

This week in Maple, we explored an exciting area of science all about grouping animals and thinking like real scientists when recording information. We began the lesson by discussing how animals can be grouped in different ways. The children quickly realised that animals share certain characteristics, and these can help us sort them into groups. We focused on identifying key features such as whether an animal has a backbone, what it eats, and where it Read more

By Mrs Pillitteri, ago

Forest school after school club week 2

This week at Forest School Club, the children had a wonderful time exploring nature and developing their Skills Builder skills through a range of exciting activities. We created beautiful natural medallions using log slices, showing our creativity and staying focused as we carefully designed them. The children also made Cheerio bird feeders, demonstrating teamwork and problem solving while helping wildlife around our school. During our mini beast hunt, everyone used their speaking and listening skills Read more

By Miss Wilde, ago

Flowers

This week in Science, Year 1 have been learning a song about the different parts of a plant, along with actions to help them remember the function of each part. They labelled the parts of a flower and learned to identify each one. The children also explored the difference between wild and garden flowers. As part of this, they went on a flower hunt around the school grounds, using an identification key to name each Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago

House Monoprint

Following on from our observational drawings last week, Pine have been working on creating monoprints. The children chose a small section of their drawings and carefully created an enlarged version of the section in their sketch books. We then used polystyrene tiles and printing ink to create a printing tile, which was then used to create the monoprint.

By Mrs Jones, ago

Following on from our observational drawings last week, Pine have been working on creating monoprints. The children chose a small section of their drawings and carefully created an enlarged version of the section in their sketch books. We then used polystyrene tiles and printing ink to create a printing tile, which was then used to create the monoprint.

By Mrs Jones, ago

Monoprint

In our art topic this half term, year 5 are looking at craft and design, specifically architecture. We have looked at houses and buildings so far and have even made our own drawings of houses. Today, we selected a small area of our drawing from last lesson as if we had ‘zoomed in’ and copied this section larger. We then imprinted this onto polystyrene and used printing ink to print our design. The designs worked Read more

By Miss Maxwell, ago