This week, we were reading the story of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We remembered that our last 2 stories were the same author, and even remembered her name. We did some lovely activities around the story: We wrote a list of the characters from the story, dressed as the Read more
This half term children will be having forest school. They had a great first session. Please bring outdoor clothes and a change of shoes on our forest school days
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 have been doing all about animals and minibeasts. Last week we looked at ladybirds, we learnt about the life cycle of a ladybird and read some lovely stories. One of the stories that we read was ‘What the ladybird heard’, in the story, the bad guys Read more
A group of children from Year 6 were invited by Breaking Barriers to embark upon an immersive journey along the scenic route along Blackstone Edge called Elevation. The children experienced a creative tour across the lands of Blackstone Edge, whilst listening to the Mother of the Moorlands through a set Read more
We had lots of fun in forest school last week. To link with our new science topic ‘Animals’, we created animals with clay and natural materials, searched for mini-beasts, completed mud paintings and had lots of fun exploring and climbing trees. It was lovely to see such an improvement in Read more
Today in RE, we discussed how Christians believe that God created the world and all of the fantastic things you can find in nature. We went down to our forest school area and carried out a nature hunt. We talked about which amazing nature find was our favourite and why.
This week, Year 1 began a new maths unit ‘Position and direction’. Our first lessons were on full, half and quarter turns, and left and right. To improve our understanding, we headed outside for some practical lessons. We practised different turns with partners using objects and areas of the playground. Read more
We have had so much fun this week and done some amazing exploring and investigating! This week during our around the world topic, we visited India, we answered the register by saying Namasté, had an Indian sweet shop in the playdough area, made rangoli patterns, designs our own mendhi patterns Read more
In Science this week we have been looking at microhabitats. We have worked together to make a wormery, we discussed a worms habitat and then went outside to search for worms. We were looking for three different types of worms – Earthworms (endogeic worms), Deep borrowers ( anecic worms) and Read more