Maple have been learning about the art of persuasion in English! We began by reading a letter addressed to David Walliams, which was trying to convince him to visit our school and help us with our reading. We worked really hard to pick out all of the persuasive language and Read more
In history, we have been leaving about Christopher Columbus. We had to ‘explore’ the playground to find out facts about his life. We had to search for pictures of his ship to help answer questions. We worked really well together to find all of the answers.
Since returning to school, Year 5 have been producing some fantastic writing based on an animated clip named ‘The present’. So far in our writing, a computer game obsessed Ben, has just received a special gift from his mum. When Ben opens the gift he is surprised to find a Read more
This morning we went outside to collect leaves during our forest school lesson. We then used these leaves to create an owl picture. Our new story for English is ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark’ so for our first English lesson we had an experience day where we Read more
We’ve had a fun first week back playing games and learning about pirates. We had a great time making pirate hats and eyes patches during our pirate party. The children have all settled into Year 2 really well and have behaved exceptionally. Images to follow…
We have really enjoyed our last week in Reception and have had lots of fun. We went on a scavenger hunt to see if we could find our friend’s faces and ticked them off our list. We have been learning about bees so we decorated our own bee biscuits to take Read more
Yesterday, our lesson started with discussions about the vandalism of the Marcus Rashford mural in Manchester and the disgraceful racist abuse Rashford, Saka and Sancho have received online after England’s defeat. We learnt about what racism is and how we can all play a part to educate others, and ourselves Read more
This week was our final forest school and we had such a lovely day. We looked at the story ‘The King of tiny things’, about a little fairy who helps all minibeasts and creatures around the forest; he oiled a slug who had lost his slime, freed a caterpillar that Read more
This week we have been looking at the story ‘Mad about Minibeasts!’ And have had so much fun investigating different minibeasts. In forest school, we went on a minibeast hunt, checking to see if any had visited the bug hotels we had made the previous week and made our favourite Read more
In Reception, we have been learning about ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have learnt how to retell the story and the life cycle of a butterfly. During the story, the caterpillar eats lots of fruit. So we decided to taste test different fruits and see which ones we prefer. Once Read more