Traditional Jewish Food Tasting

This half-term, Year 1 have been learning all about the Jewish faith. Yesterday, we revised everything we had learnt about the faith, and created posters to show our learning. Each pair came to the front of class and presented their poster, explaining everything they had included. The staff were extremely impressed with how much the children had remembered. So today we tasted some traditional foods, including challah bread and latkes, and danced to some traditional Read more

Craft- Weaving

During this half-term, Year 1 have been learning the craft of weaving. We have learnt: wrapping, warp and weft, tying knots and plaiting. The children then added all their crafts to their individual loom boxes.

Maple’s trip to Eureka

Maple have had a brilliant day at Eureka. We looked around the ‘Living and Working together’, ‘All About Me’ and ‘SoundSpace’ Gallery and enjoyed the science show ‘From the Chew to the Poo’ Science Show. Well done Maple – you were all fab!  

British Afternoon Tea

This week we have been learning about Britain. This afternoon, we decided to celebrate by holding a British afternoon tea party with all of the children in Reception. We had finger sandwiches, chocolate chip muffins and scones with jam. We waved union jacks and listened to the national anthem.

Street Party

This week on our last week of around the world, we have learnt all about a England, we have talked about London landmarks, looked at the countries of the UK and discussed the food we eat and our climate. Today we finished our topic with a great British street party, we had lots of fun waving our flags and eating afternoon tea

Hawthorn goes to Eureka!

Yesterday, Hawthorn went on their class trip to Eureka! we had a great time. We took part in lots of workshops and then watched a science show called ‘chew to the pop’ We also had time exploring the different galleries at Eureka: -all about me -sound space – living and working together we learnt about the largest muscle in our bodies and during the science show we learnt how our bodies digests food and then Read more