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Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 2:33pm
Today we started our Gymnastics unit. We began by recapping the basic shapes we have been taught throughout the years. We then began exploring different balances using points and patches (hands, elbows, knees and feet). Once we had explored a variety of ways to balance using different parts of our body, we went into partners and began creating a sequence of balances linked together with turns and jumps.
Date: 15th Jan 2025 @ 7:41am
If you were unable to attend the SATs meeting, all the information shared with parents at the meeting can be found in the following video. If you have any questions regardingt he SATs, please contact one of the Year 6 teachers.
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 7:12pm
This week in school, it has been road safety week and Reception have been learning how to keep safe and be responsible when crossing the road.
They had a special visitor from Zoe our crossing patrol warden or, as we like to say, our lollypop lady!
We all learnt that we have to :
1- Find a safe place to cross.
2- Stay on the curb.
3- Look both ways.
4- Listen for the traffic.
5-Then walk sensibly across the road.
"Look both ways when you cross the road" Dennis
"Be sensible when crossing the road- walk don't run" RJ
"Always hold hands with an adult" Riley- Ella
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 10:50am
This half term in our PE sessions we are learning about different types of movement and linking these to dance. We began todays lesson by listening to a piece of winter music and thinking about all the changes that occur in winter and how these make us feel. We then began to think about movements that could be linked to these changes/feelings.
Year 1 Mastering Teen Numbers!
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 10:41am
This week, Year 1 have been learning about the composition of teen numbers. We have learnt about tens and ones, what they are and how to identify how many are in a number. We have worked on counting accurately, identifying and writing teen numbers. We have also used lots of different resources, including Numicon, Base 10 and tens frames to make each number and deepen our understanding.
Date: 14th Jan 2025 @ 9:15am
This week the pupils in year 5 began their science journey all about animals. In this lesson we talked about the human stages of life and pupils learned the meaning of gestation and life span. Pupils then drew a scatter graph plotting the gestation period against life span for certain animals. We discovered that larger animals had a longer life span and a longer gestation period compared to small animals.
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 4:53pm
This week some of the children have been lucky enough to meet 'Bailey' our school therapy dog. The children have enjoyed interacting with Bailey, playing games with her and even getting her to do some tricks. We look forward to spend more time with Bailey over the next few weeks.
"She sits when I give her a treat" Harry
"I gave Bailey a high five" Oakley
"She had to wait for her treat when we counted to ten" Kayden
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 4:49pm
Over the next few week the children are going to be learning about the season of Winter. We will be looking for for signs of winter in our outside area and making observations about what how the weather and temperature has changed. This week the children were lucky enough to enjoy the snow and take part in lots of wintery games outside including sledging down our hell and making snowmen.
"I|t might snow in Winter" Dennis
"The trees are bare and have no leaves" Lily-Mae
"It is every cold so you wear a hat and scarf" Aurora
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 3:55pm
Today, we continued our Maths unit of shape by using our knowledge of the sides and vertices on 2D shapes to draw them accurately. We used the geoboards to help us make the shapes as regular as we could before drawing them in our books.
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 9:31am
Welcome back and Happy New Year.
This week saw a wintery start to the term, but a great introduction to our new topic Winter Wonderland.
Acorns have enjoyed exploring the ice in our sensory tray and digging out the frozen animas. We have enjoyed reading Jack Frost and creating some play dough snowmen.
What a busy week we've had.
Year 6 - Autumn 2 Reading Champions
Date: 12th Jan 2025 @ 7:38pm
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.
