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Cookery Club Week 3 – Mini Pizzas

In this week’s Cookery Club, we had lots of fun making our own mini pizzas. Before we started assembling them, we taste-tested some of the ingredients to decide which flavours would work best together. We tried different toppings like tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and mushrooms, thinking carefully about what combinations might taste the best. We also focused on our Skills Builder skill of planning. Before making our pizzas, we planned our toppings and the order Read more

By Mrs Jones, ago

Year 1 – Engineering (careers week)

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 runs. They watched examples of adverts, discussed persuasive language and powerful adjectives, and planned how to introduce their product. As the week progressed, the children Read more

By Miss Lomax, ago

Careers week- Engineering

This week, our learning focused on engineering, technology and oracy skills. We began by exploring what engineering is, using sentence stems to understand that engineers plan, design, test and improve ideas while thinking about the user. We finished the lesson with a Kahoot quiz to check our understanding. Next, we learned about Margaret Hamilton and her important role in coding the Apollo Moon missions. Pupils took part in a hot seating activity, creating short news Read more

By Mrs Graham, ago

World Book Day

Reception came into school today dressed as a book character or what they would like to do when they grow up to celebrate World Book Day. Everyone looked fantastic! Reception have been very busy today celebrating World Book Day. We have been listening to lots of stories, sharing our favourite stories with our friends, drawing ourselves as a book character, creating our favourite book characters, voting for our favourite stories and playing games with our Read more

By Mrs Marsh, ago

World book Day

📚✨ World Book Day in Maple Class! ✨📚 Maple Class had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day and Careers week! We saw some amazing costumes including Tracey Beaker, the Hulk, Snow White, Cinderella and many more wonderful characters. It was brilliant to see everyone bring their favourite stories to life. To ccelebrate careers week we also had footballers, scientists and engineers! We also took part in a live lesson with the author of Beastie Read more

By Mrs Pillitteri, ago

Careers week – engineering

Your child has been actively participating in our Careers Week activities, with a particular focus on engineering. As part of their learning, the class explored the inspiring work of Isatou Ceesay, discussing how innovation and creativity can help solve environmental problems. The children developed their communication skills by completing a range of presentations and oracy tasks, including creating and delivering PowerPoint presentations about engineering. Building on this, they began an exciting design project where they Read more

By Mr Hignett, ago

Engineering week

We started off Careers Week by learning all about Bessie Blount, a famous engineer who invented a machine that allowed people who had lost limbs to eat independently without the help of a nurse. We researched facts about her and then completed a Kahoot quiz all about her work and achievements. Afterwards, we stood in front of the class and presented what we had discovered.Next, we were set the challenge of creating a wearable device Read more

By Mrs Downing, ago

Careers week – engineering challenge

Year 4 have had a fantastic week celebrating Careers Week, with a special focus on engineering. Throughout the week, the children explored how engineers design solutions to real-world problems. Our challenge asked the question: How can robots be designed to support patients to develop fine motor skills and muscle strength? The children began by discussing what engineers do and how technology can help people in healthcare. Using the engineering design cycle, the children worked through Read more

By Mrs Pillitteri, ago

Science at Home – Week 1

Wow, what a fantastic effort from some of our pupils this week! They have been busy creating erupting volcanoes at home. They carried out the following experiment to see an erupting volcano: Combine the vinegar, water, dish soap and 2 drops of food colouring into the empty soda bottle. Use a spoon to mix the baking soda slurry until it is all a liquid. Eruption time! … Pour the baking soda slurry into the soda Read more

By Mrs Grindrod, ago

Careers week and World Book Day

During careers week Nursery learnt all about being an engineer. We started the week by learning what engineers are and the different jobs they do. We designed a house together, discussing our decisions as we went along and importance of planning. The children had a go at designing their own houses, making engineering decisions. On day 3, the children took part in a playdough challenge to create a house from lolly sticks that could stand Read more

By Mrs Greenwood, ago