Over the past few weeks, 14 of our Year 5 and 6 girls have been taking part in our afterschool dance club, where they have been working hard to prepare for an exciting inter-school dance competition. Throughout the club, the girls focused on developing the Skills Builder essential skills of teamwork and creativity, and they demonstrated both brilliantly. They also showed excellent leadership with children taking turns to deliver the warm-ups. The theme of the Read more
What a brilliant effort at home this week everyone! Well done, make sure you come to see Mrs Grindrod or Miss Maxwell to have your experiment card hole punched. What amazing scientists we have! This week you have explored and investigated colours by creating a walking rainbow. Because of capillary action, the water flowed or “walked” up and over the paper towels right into the empty cup. Brilliant!
Year 2 Forest School Art: Exploring Clay During our recent Forest School sessions, Year 2 pupils took their art learning outdoors and explored working with clay in a natural environment. Being surrounded by trees, leaves, and natural textures provided the perfect inspiration for creative work while also supporting pupils’ curiosity and engagement. Exploring Clay In the first lesson, the focus was on introducing clay and practising basic clay-handling skills. Pupils were given time to explore Read more
Cedar class looked fabulous celebrating World Book Day! Amazing effort and thought was put into all of their costumes. Well done everyone!
Last week for careers week, Year 3 took part in various activities with a particular focus on engineering. The class used their imaginations to think of where magical secrets could be hidden within school. They then designed robots that would be equipped and built for purpose to uncover and reveal these secrets. The children also built circuits at the end of the week. In English, the focus was developing oracy skills. We had a focus Read more
Birch class looked fabulous celebrating World Book Day! Amazing effort and thought was put into all of their costumes!
Last week for careers week, Year 3 took part in various activities with a particular focus on engineering. The class used their imaginations to think of where magical secrets could be hidden within school. They then designed robots that would be equipped and built for purpose to uncover and reveal these secrets. The children also built circuits at the end of the week. In English, the focus was developing oracy skills. We had a focus Read more
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
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
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