As part of outdoor classroom day and mental health awareness week we took part in a forest school taster session with Miss Steele and Mr Tompkins. We took part in lots of different activities: we went on the hunt for ‘something special’ we were shown how to make a campfire Read more…
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told Read more…
Year 5 had a fantastic time at Forest School today! We showed off our knowledge of the area by playing a game where we had to name the flora in the area. We also learnt about a Ghillie kettle and how they can be used to heat water using fire. Read more…
We had another lovely day of forest school today in Reception… even though the afternoon session had to be moved inside because of the storms! ⛈⚡️ We are getting so good at staying safe and remembering our forest school rules: walking around the circle and not inside it, helping our Read more…
We have had lots of fun learning about Minibeasts in our English and topic lessons. We then used this knowledge to help to design and make a minibeast. On our designs we had to make sure they had the correct number of legs and antennas. Once we finished painting them Read more…
This week in our maths we have been looking at spatial awareness using language such as in, on, up, down, under and behind. We explored spacial awareness using toys in our class and used a dolls house to explain which rooms we could see and how we knew. We got Read more…
This week we have been reading the story ‘Jack And The Beanstalk’, we found out that Jack threw some magic beans out of the window and a beanstalk grew. At the top of the beanstalk lived a giant in a castle. Jack stole the giant’s gold and then he had Read more…
What a busy week!! This week we have been reading the story of Jack and the beanstalk, we have decided to do an experiment where we grow 2 beanstalks, one in a pot with soil and one in a bag with just a wet cotton wool ball, we then voted Read more…
On Wednesday, Reception took part in their weekly forest school session, we had so much fun!! It was a little wet and windy but that didn’t stop us, we put on our waterproofs and set off for the forest. We remembered the rules from last time and practised walking outside Read more…
Year 5 enjoyed their forest school sessions today, despite the wet weather. We started the session by discussing the flora and fauna in the area. Everybody was given a piece of flora and kept it hidden. We then used our language skills to describe the piece of flora to try Read more…