The Little Gardener

This week, our story is “The Little Gardener”. We have learnt about what is needed to care for a garden and keep plants growing. We have been enjoying exploring a variety of tuff trays filled with exciting activities. We especially loved creating flower potions and perfume at the potion station, Read more

Clay in forest school

Year 2 Forest School Art: Exploring Clay During our recent Forest School sessions, Year 2 pupils took their art learning outdoors and explored working with clay in a natural environment. Being surrounded by trees, leaves, and natural textures provided the perfect inspiration for creative work while also supporting pupils’ curiosity Read more

Forest School Smores

This morning we had a special Christmas treat in Forest School, we made smores! We started a fire safely with the help of Miss Dewhurst. We then talked about being careful around the fire and took it in turns to cook our marshmallow over the fire. We sandwiched it between Read more

Forest School Weather

We have loved taking our Geography learning about weather outdoors into our Forest school lessons. Take a look at our lesson about wind, in which we made wind-catchers, and our lesson on rain, in which we made umbrellas. We are really enjoying our outdoor learning!

Questions

This morning Year 1 completed a grammar lesson on questions. We learnt about what a question is, how we know if a sense is a question, learnt sentence starters for questions, learnt KungFu Punctuation of how to draw a question mark and played stand up sit down for question or Read more

Signs of winter

As we are currently studying the topic ‘weather’ in Science, and ‘Hot and Cold places in Geography’, we took the opportunity to wrap up warm and head outdoors to explore the changes created by our recent , very cold, snowy and frosty weather. We looked closely at the frost and Read more

Tackling gender stereotypes

This week’s SMSC assembly was about tackling gender stereotypes in careers. KS1 pupils considered what a builder and a florist may look like before meeting Kimberley and her female colleagues who work in construction and then Jonathon a celebrity floral designer. In KS2 children got a peek into some familiar Read more