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…
Year 6 have been challenged to design, make and evaluate their own playgrounds in DT. The children have spent the past two days producing their own designs in groups focusing on the design criteria. The playground had to be: fun, safe, something to hide, something to climb up and something Read more…
In this D.T unit we having been learning all about Information design and why it is important for us to have signage, posters and written communication in public places. We created an electric poster based on the Ancient Romans. In this lesson, we used our designs and assembled our poster together Read more…
This afternoon the children have been thinking about the houses in the three little pigs story. We talked about the different materials they were made out of and whether those materials were a good choice to build with. The children then made their own house, choosing materials that they thought Read more…
This afternoon the children have been thinking about the houses in the three little pigs story. We talked about the different materials they were made out of and whether those materials were a good choice to build with. The children then made their own house, choosing materials that they thought Read more…