In Science last half-term, Year 1 learnt all about materials and their properties. This half-term we are using this knowledge for our new topic ‘Building things’. To link with our careers learning, today we had a special visit from Mr Singleton. Mr Singleton is our school site manager and he Read more
This week we have been reading the stories of ‘what the ladybird heard’ by Julia Donaldson. We are all getting very good at remembering the job of the author and illustrators of stories. This week, we have made ‘messy maps’ thinking about features we might see that we could add Read more
This morning, Hawthorn were visited by the school nurses to tell us all about healthy eating. During our session, the nurses spoke to us about having a health diet and how much sugar some of our food contains! Children were asked about their diets and to reflect on the foods Read more
Our school nurse came into school to talk to us about healthy eating. She was really impressed with our knowledge so far that we have been learning in Science and Design & Technology. We looked at how much sugar is in different drinks then we had to guess how many Read more
This afternoon Year 2 took part in a fantastic Science show with the Scientist Adrian Bowden. We completed lots of different science experiments and looked at some Science vocabulary like: predict, classify, test and measure.
This half term we are reading stories by Julia Donaldson, we have been discussing the roles of Authors and Illustrators and talked about the different stories that Julia Donaldson has written. This week we read Zog; we wrote about what Zog can do and what he looks like, we made Read more
This week, Year 2 Elm enjoyed their first forest school session. They went down to the forest school area and created nature pictures using our finger painting. We then worked on our new skills builder skill of problem solving and worked in pairs to do an autumn scavenger hunt around Read more
This half term we are learning about keeping healthy. In Science we are learning about the different functions of the body and in Design & Technology we are learning about the healthy food plate. For our first lesson in D&T we have been looking at the different food groups: carbohydrates, Read more
During financial awareness week, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Steph who taught us all about her job within finance and teach us about fraud. During this week, we learnt a lot about careers that can be held within the finance industry. We worked together to see Read more
On the last week before half-term, the whole school took part in finance week. Year 1 were very lucky to have two special visitors from two different banks, who were able to tell us all about their careers and what banks are for. They also helped us with our task Read more