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Year 5 - Autumn 2 Reading Champions
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 7:37pm
Year 4 - Autumn 2 Reading Champions
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 7:37pm
Year 3 - Autumn 2 Reading Champions
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 7:35pm
Year 2 - Autumn 2 Reading Champions
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 7:34pm
Year 1 - Autumn 2 Reading Champions
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 7:34pm
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 10:19am
This week we have been looking at RESPONSIBILITY and how we can be responsible for ourselves and our actions and for other things including pets, younger siblings and PLANTS!
We signed a responsibility promise to take care of our plants and our first task was to fill our plant pots with the right soil. We then carefully planted our seed in the pot. Year 5 discussed that our responsibility would last much longer than just today, we would have to water and feed our seed as it grows, ensuring it gets the right amount of sunlight too. Eventually, we will have to repot our plant into the ground when it grows bigger!
Finally, we talked about how our responsibilities and our actions we undertook to care for our plant have consequences; being responsible means our plant will grow, not taking our responsibilities seriously will mean our plant will not survive!
Year 3- Developing our Oracy skills!
Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 4:06pm
In this session Year Three were developing their Oracy skills. The children looked at how to build a conversation and what was needed to structure talk effectively. The children then used this and took on a role in the conversation, to discuss different questions and listened carefully to the answers of other children.
Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 4:01pm
This week has seen the return to Forest School for Year Three! It was an icy and snowy session for the children, in which they loved exploring the ice and snow and seeing their footprints!
Year 3- Identifying and classifying rocks!
Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 3:53pm
In Year Three, we are beginning our new Science learning about Rocks. The children looked at a range of rocks to identify their qualities and discussed the different appearances. We discussed the three different rock types and made comparisons between them.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:06pm
This week, Year 4 have been looking at news reports. The class have analysed several different reports such as the Lionesses winning the Euros in 2022, the recent weather in the UK and recent wildfires in LA, California.
The children have found that there are many different features including direct and reported speech!
Next week, the class will be looking at how they will be gaining the skills to write their own news report.
School Council-Books and Charities
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 5:32pm
The school council met today to discuss what type of books they would like Miss Moyes to order and what charities we will support as a school.
We then went on to discuss linking up with the Eco Warriors to do a fund raiser for the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) charity.
Nursery Make the Most of the Snow
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 2:44pm
Nursery had a wondeful time exploring the snow this week! We made sure we wrapped up warm and then went out to make snow angels and build mini snowmen. The children also had a great time sliding down the very slippery slide. Some of the snow began to melt and we talked about why it was starting to melt.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 2:35pm
Nursery have been practising counting by building snowmen using cotton wool pads. They had to count out three cotton wool pads, two eyes and one nose. We talked about stopping when we had reached the given number and used vocabulary including too many and too few to describe different amounts.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 12:58pm
This week we began our new French topic, Les Vikings. We used our knowledge of cognates, known vocabulary and French dictionaries to translate a brief history of the Vikings. The children did brilliantly and can't wait to carry on with this topic.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:40am
In this lesson we were introduced to the main beliefs of Hinduism and, as ever, we used our 5 finger recall facts!
We heard from Vandana, a 22 year-old Hindu who explained about how she works, lives and plays all while following Dharma – the duty or moral responsibility in Hinduism. We discussed how an equivalent to Dharma for us would be The Always Way and following the Boundary Always Promises.
Finally, we discussed Brahman, the formless and eternal entity in Hinduism and how this can be depicted in animal or human form. Finally, we designed our own deity to depict Brahman and how they/it might influence the world around us.
Year 2- Where in the world am I?
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:20am
This week, we began our new Geography unit 'Continents and Oceans'. We started by recapping our learning from Year 1 focusing on the United Kingdom before looking at Google Earth at where we are in the world. We started really small with us at school and kept zooming out to explore: which town we live in, the closest city to us, the county we live in, the country we live in, the continent we are in and finally which hemisphere of the globe. We loved looking at Google Earth and learning about our place in the world.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 9:11am
Today we started our new Art journey by looking at Alice Fox and thinking about how she uses nature to influence her work. We then created a page dedicated to Alice Fox in our sketchbooks. We were inspred by her work, information about her, nature and colours that she would use.
Year 4 - What is a river and where are famous ones around the world?
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:45am
We started our rivers unit by recapping the names of the UK countries, cities and seas/oceans. Then we moved around the room to look at information to find out what a river actually is. Once we discovered this we used atlas' to find famous rivers around the world.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:34am
Today we began our History unit of Vikings. We learned who they were, where they came from and why they came to Britain. Over the next few weeks we will learn more about them as a people, how and why they attacked Britain and what impact they had here on British soil.
Date: 8th Jan 2025 @ 6:03pm
Today we began to discuss our key question in RE, ‘How might beliefs about creation affect the way people treat the world?’ Our lesson involved learning about how we should treat the environment, why it is important and whose responsibility it is. We did this through looking at images and real life nature examples. We went on a nature walk to collect lots of natural resources and we then used these natural resources to create transient nature pictures. After this, we looked at a number of images and decided which are examples of looking after the environment and which are not. We sorted them together, verbally discussing and justifying each example.
Date: 7th Jan 2025 @ 7:00pm
We were all very excited to come back to school after the Christmas holidays! We began today by reading our new story 'Lost and Found.' We learnt about the characters, the setting and the key events within the story. We then ordered the story, labelled the key characters/objects, retold the story in our storytelling areas and made cut and stick penguins!
Year 6 - Christmas Quiz winners!!
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 9:27am
Well done to Oak class - Christmas quiz winners for 2024!
A close second to Elder class. Well done Year 6.
Historical Association Quality Mark - GOLD!
Date: 20th Dec 2024 @ 8:39am
We have once again achieved GOLD in the Historical Association Quality Mark assessment!
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 11:50am
During the Autumn Term, some of our families participated in Family Workshops, designed to help support with learning at home. The focus has been working together and there was the opportunity to create some resources that can be used at home to support the learning that takes place in school. These workshops were well attended and we received some fantastic feedback from participants. Thank you to all those involved.
