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Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 1:14pm
Today we started our DT journey of textiles. Our first lesson was looking at existing felt products and discussing stitches used, intended user and design. Then we practised previously learned stitches on binca squares.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 2:40pm
Nursery were visited by the duckligs from our Reception class and they sure did make a splash! The children loved watching as the ducklings swam and waddled around. They noticed how the duckings didn't have adult feathers yet and were very fluffy instead! The ducklings were trying to look for food on the grass and even tried to nibble a couple of shoes and socks! We discussed how the ducklings had hatched out of eggs that the mummy duck had laid.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 12:30pm
Today our Year 1 classes were taken over by Year 5 teachers! We enjoyed meeting our new teachers and TAs first thing this morning, before listening to our new head teacher during assembly time. We then spent the morning exploring Beebots, what their buttons do and how to make them perform commands we want to give them.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 10:00am
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 9:14am
Year 4 learned about funk music this week.
The children really enjoyed listening to a variety of funk music and finding out where it originated from. The children selected the song 'September' by Earth, Wind and Fire and sang it with enthusiasm in class! The children could not stop themselves from swaying and moving to the music.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 8:58am
This week, we started to look at classification keys, how they work and what questions we need to ask to make them work. We learned we needed to ask closed questions and we needed to know similar and unique characteristics about the animals we were classifying.
Date: 18th Jun 2025 @ 5:02pm
Nursery had a wonderful time at Forest School. They searched for bugs in the environment, dug big holes in the mud and found out about all the different leaves you can find on the plants and trees,
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 4:30pm
We had a wonderful visit from Rachel, who came in to talk to us about the Jewish faith. She shared some really fascinating insights into Judaism, including central beliefs like the importance of family, keeping kosher, and observing the Sabbath. Rachel explained how these traditions help guide daily life and bring people closer to their faith. The class were really engaged and asked some brilliant questions – from what Hanukkah is all about to how Jewish people celebrate Passover. It was a great opportunity to learn more about a different culture and everyone came away with a deeper understanding and lots to think about!
Year 5 - Flying High with Aspirations
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 4:27pm
Flying High with Aspirations: Our Aviation Zoom with Primary Futures ✈️
Last week, our children had the exciting opportunity to take part in a special Zoom session, set up in partnership with the amazing team at Primary Futures. The aim? To spark curiosity, raise aspirations, and open young eyes to the wide world of work — and what better theme to start with than aviation!
We were thrilled to be joined by two real-life pilots and an aerospace engineer, who each shared their fascinating career journeys, talked about what their day-to-day roles involve, and answered some very thoughtful (and sometimes very funny!) questions from our curious students.
The children were wide-eyed as they learned about flying commercial planes, navigating through challenging weather, and even helping design and maintain aircraft. It was an inspiring session that really brought home the message: you can be anything you want to be with passion, perseverance, and a love of learning.
We’re so grateful to Primary Futures and our guest speakers for helping our children dream big. We can't wait to see where their imaginations — and ambitions — will take them next!
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 9:58am
For our music learning, Year Three looked at making comparisons between music in similar genres. The children looked at Jazz music and looked at what features were similar in theses pieces of music. We identified the use of improvisation with both voice and instruments, then we looked at scatting. We made comparative links between the pieces and thought about which was the best piece and why.
Year 3- Why did Britain go to war?
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 9:53am
To begin our History journey the children looked at timelines. We looked at what chronological order meant and put key events that we have looked at in KS1 and Year 3 in order. We then went into the hall to see where World War Two was in relation to other key events.
Date: 16th Jun 2025 @ 6:54pm
This week, Year 1 had a very exciting visit from our local nurses, who came to talk to us about sun safety! We impressed the nurses with what we already knew and helped them tell a story about how to keep safe when the weather is warm.
Date: 16th Jun 2025 @ 6:10pm
Today, Year 1 were lucky enough to meet the ducklings that have recently hatched in Reception! As it was a nice day, we made the ducklings a little pool outside and spent some time observing them swimming, playing and asking questions to learn more about them.
Reception- The Three Little Pigs
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:29pm
This week Reception have been reading the story The Three Little Pigs. We retold the story, learnt new words and discussed why it is importatnt to work hard like the third little pig and not become lazy like the other two little pigs who quickly made their houses out of straw and sticks. Look at what else we did too!
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 2:23pm
Yesterday, Reception took part in Forest School. They had fun playing games, such as Twit and Whoo (hide and seek),helping each other look for wildlife , including minibeasts, and creating models of nature with playdough.
"I found a worm" Evan.
"I made a playdough fish" Freya C.
"Bees go on flowers and drink the sugar in them" Freyja.
Take a look at our photos!
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 1:38pm
This week we had a very special delivery in Reception. Some duck eggs arrived on Monday in an incubator. The children were very excited to observe the egg and were lucky enough to watch them hatch. We now have four ducklings; Sonny, Sophia, Mr Duck and Donald. The children have had the opportunity to hold the ducklings, watch them swimming in the water trays and even feed and clean our thei cage with adult support. We look forward to learning more about them and thei lifecycle next week.
Date: 13th Jun 2025 @ 8:12am
As part of our Year 6 trip to Manchester Museaum, we were lucky to meet Dr. Hannah Chalk - the Museum Learning Manager. She told us all about her job, what she did and her route into her chosen career. She said that she felt very privileged to do a job that she loved and explained how she had studied Geology at university before doing a masters degree in Museum Studies.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 5:09pm
This week we have continued learning about numbers within 100 and today we practised describing these numbers in terms on tens and ones. We continued to use Base 10 to make each number and support counting in tens.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 4:22pm
Today Year 6 visited Manchester Museum. There were lots of different areas to explore, including Ancient Egypt, Fossils, The Natural World and Ancient Asia. We were able to link our learning in Science to the fossil and dinosaur section as well as looking at how animals and plants have evolved over time. We had a great time and learned lots.
Nursery and their Excellent Fine Motor Skills
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 2:47pm
This week the children have been developeing their fine motor skills with activtiies link to the story "Handa'a Surprise". The chidlren have weaved baskets, made pineapples and cut them out and squeezed fruit to create some juice.
Nursery New and Improved Mud Kitchen
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 2:43pm
Our mud kitchen has recently recieved a make over! We have made it bigger, added a water butt so the chidlren can collect their own water and added some new pots, pans and tools. The children are also able use the
herbs that are avalaible in the near by garden. It has been lovely to watch the chidlren working togther to create their own recipes - we have had brocolli, soup and hot chocolate!
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:03am
This half term, we are looking at classifying animals. This week we focused on vertebrates. We used information around the classroom to find the characteristics of five vertebrates and then used Carroll and Venn diagrams to start to classify (group) some animals.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:00am
This week we used music staves and the glockenspiels to create our own music. We focused on using the notes C, D, E, G and A and making sure they were written on the staves accurately.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 8:25am
We have some new arrivals in school this week. On Monday , we had a delivery of eggs and an incubater. On Tuesday Acorns went to visit the eggs and noticed some were cracked and one was moving, with a beak peeping out. We were excited to see some duckling hatching.
Omer "chicks"
We were even more excited to see one of the ducks that had already hatch and touch their soft fur. We will be visiting the ducklings regularly over the next couple of weeks and watching how they grow.
Date: 10th Jun 2025 @ 3:41pm
Today we looked at what plants need to grow to be strong and healthy. Once we had learnt how to care for plants and identified plants that were healthy or unhealthy we planted a sunflower seed to take home and practice our new learning. We look forward to seeing how your sunflowers grow!
