This afternoon, Snowdrops have had such a lovely time working with Year 6 in their classrooms. We shared a story called ‘Come over to my house’ by Dr Seuss. We talked about how all of the houses in the story were very different to each other, just like our own Read more…
This week in cookery club we made cheese and ham toasties. The children followed the recipe and built their sandwich before using the toastie machine to toast them. The smell coming from the classroom led to lots of hungry teachers wanting a toastie for tea.
This week the children requested that we make Rice Krispie cakes. We decided to give them a bonfire theme using buttercream icing and broken matchmakers. The children made the buttercream from scratch using butter and icing sugar and added orange food colouring to give us the fire effect. The end Read more…
This week in design technology we met ‘the Doodlers’. The Doodlers are fun robots powered by an electrical circuit and a motor. The children carried out an investigation in groups to determine the factors that affect the form and function of the Doodler. We changed parts such as the drawing Read more…
This week saw the start of our new cookery club. The children had lots of fun making their own ‘mummy pizzas’. We made our dough from scratch using greek yoghurt and flour and chose our own fillings. We filled our pizzas then overlapped our dough to give us the Read more…
During Reflective Friday, we looked at this weeks picture news which was about a man who had broke a new world record for running. He was in the news because other people weren’t happy that he was wearing ‘super shoes’. We discussed if we thought this was fair or not, Read more…
This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen’. Today we made bread as a class. We spoke about the fact that we were all helping each other like the animals should have been doing in the story. We followed the recipe closely and took turns weighing out and adding Read more…
Year 3 Birch have had so much fun for our first week back. We have made woolly mammoths, read stories, wrote about our hopes and dreams, talked about what is important to us and revised over what we learnt in Year 2.
On Thursday afternoons this half-term, Year 2 are completing a carousel of activities to improve various skills. They are improving their letter formation using ‘bubble writing’, working on their comprehension skills using information based on our current topics, practising their spellings through a variety of activities and, this week, practised Read more…
This half term we are learning about animals. This week we have been researching different animals and reading books to find out more about them. We have then been busy designing and creating our own animals. Some children made a jelly fish, or a crab or even a fire breathing Read more…