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Date: 1st May 2025 @ 8:13am
In today’s lesson, we recapped the Elements of Music PP, focusing on Tempo, tonality and instruments in the orchestra. Then, using the listening mats and stem sentences we listened and appraised - Train is A-Comin’.
Our focus questions were: How does it make you feel? What's the genre and style?
Where does this song fit with the world?
What time/era was the song made?
What’s the song about?
Instruments you can hear?
Afterwards, we discussed Harriet Tubman and started to learn to sing the song.
Reception Jack and the Beanstalk
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 8:57pm
This week the we have been reading 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children have been learning lots of different vocabularly and using that to describe what happens in the lifecycle of a bean. They have also been collaging beanstalks, using playdough to make their own beanstalks, building castle in the construction, completing maths activities and writing sentences about the story. Have a look at some of our learning.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 8:50pm
This week we have been reading the fairytale story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. The children recieved a mysterious letter from Jack. He set the children a challenge to find out what a bean needs to grow tall and strong. Using our discussion guidelines the children discussed what what they though the beans would needs and why they though this. the children demonstrated superb listening skills and took turns speaking. The children then went outside to plant their own magic bean and will spent the next few weeks caring for them.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 5:18pm
Today we looked at the use of Murti in Hindu worship. We learnt that Murtis are often colourful and bright and that Hindus give offerings to them. We then looked at lots of different examples of Murtis, including both Gods and Goddesses, and looked at why Hindus may worship them.We then chose a Murti to represent using salt dough, thinking about why Hindus may choose this Murti to worship.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 1:28pm
During Lent, the Year 4 children took part in a special project focused on almsgiving, raising both awareness and money for charity. The children were split into three groups: fundraisers, creators, and speakers. The fundraising team decided to sell sweet cones, thoughtfully setting suggested donation prices and designing stickers to promote their efforts. The awareness group worked hard to create a post for the school website and designed colourful posters to raise awareness about deafness and the important work of the National Deaf Children’s Society. Meanwhile, the speakers group prepared an engaging presentation for an assembly as part of Deaf Awareness Week.
Through their teamwork, creativity, and dedication, the children successfully raised £150 for the charity from their after school tuck shop.
Date: 28th Apr 2025 @ 7:09pm
This week, we have revisited partitioning numbers in our maths lessons. We have completed lots of practical work to partition numbers into tens and ones, orally stating stem sentences to support our understanding.
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 2:22pm
This week Holly and Willow classes have been focusing on their running skills. They took part in relay races where they also learnt how to work together as a team.
This enables them to develop their gross motor skills, move energetically and negotiate space.
Take a look at our photos.
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 11:24am
This week Acorns enjoyed a visit from some tadpoles to class. We loved looking at them swimming around in their watery habitat. We have been exploring the life cycle of frogs through songs, learning activities and multi sensory experiences and stories..
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:24pm
Nursery have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. One day they came to Nursery to find a giant caterpillar made out of spaghetti! There was only one thing to do - trim that caterpillar! The children were able to develop their fine motor skills and practise their scissor skills. The caterpillar was unrecognisable by the end!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:15pm
As part of a whole school Art Day, Nursery created some wonderful portraits inspired by the story The Dot. We listened to the story and talked about creating pieces of art from a simple mark on the paper. Each year group were given a different colour to work with and ours was pink. The children were all given a circle and asked to create a self-portrait on their dot. The results were outstanding!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 4:08pm
Today Year 6 took part in a pre-SATs Kooth workshop online. The aim of the event was to talk to children about how they felt going into the SATs and what strategies they could use to help them with any worries or anxities they were having about the tests. The children were also introduced to the Kooth website, which is a support platform for young people. Kooth is the UK's largest and longest established digital mental health service that partners with NHS and local authority organisations to deliver mental health support to young children. If children would like to create their own account then we encourage parents/carers to sit with their children and look through the website.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 12:56pm
What a fabulous day we had at Forest School today! Our Year 3 pupils were buzzing with excitement as they discovered some amazing things in nature. Did you know that you can actually eat every part of a dandelion? From the leaves in salads to the flowers in tea, these cheerful yellow flowers are more than just a weed!
The children began their adventure by exploring the forest school area. They got really creative and built dens using sticks and leaves—what a brilliant team effort! Over at the mud kitchen, they set up a quirky little café, selling ice cream and whipping up delicious pizza. Yum!
The pupils also took care of our plants, watering flowers and fruit bushes, helping them grow big and strong. They even added extra water to our pond, so it would flow into the second pond. Along the way, we spotted tiny tadpoles swimming about and even a couple of cheeky small frogs!
Finally, the children got their hands dirty digging in the ditch. Guess what they found? Shapes that looked just like dinosaur footprints! How exciting is that? We can't wait for our next forest adventure!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 11:09am
In the next two lessons, all the musical learning and activities will be focussed around the song Look Into The Night. Learn all about K-pop music with Look Into The Night. K-pop is a style of Pop music that began in the 1990s in South Korea and is now very popular all around the world!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:38am
This week, we typed up our hot writes of our Poem on a Theme. The theme was about rivers - linking to our Geography unit. Have a look at some of the amazing figurative language the children have used.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:07am
Today, we had an exciting art lesson inspired by the story 'The Dot'! We all started by drawing our self-portraits within a circle, using our best sketching skills. It was so much fun to see everyone’s creative ideas come to life! Then came the best part: painting with watercolours in different shades of yellow. We learned to mix white with yellow and even a bit of gold to create fantastic tones. The classroom lit up with all the bright yellows! I can’t wait to see the masterpieces put on display in school for everyone to admire. Well done, Year 3!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:00am
Year Two completed their dance unit to the song 'I just can't wait to be king.' We explored how to show emotions through our dances and expressions. We loved dancing to the song and working together to try and piece a dance together.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:25am
Our first story this half term is 'How to Catch a Star.' This week we have read the story, drawn our own story maps to help us retell the key events, labelled key characters from the story and written speech bubbles. We have also completed lots of activities related to the story in our clasroom provision.
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:15pm
Year 4 completed art work based on the story 'The Dot' which was told to us in assembly.
The children used ideas from Kandinsky to form patterns focusing on line and colour.
The children then drew their portraits on larger circles and used one colour to show depth by using tint, tone and shade.
Year 4 - No Pen Morning - Maths
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:09pm
Yer 4, used cuisenaire rods for a no-pen morning in maths. It was a a great way to encourage hands-on, visual learning. Pupils explored fractions. They were given different tasks such as identifying fractions and finding what parts make up wholes.
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 4:57pm
This week we have held our school uniform swap! Parents, carers and children all enjoyed swapping their old uniform for new- reusing and recycling.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 8:50pm
The whole school created some wonderful art work inspired by the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds and the artist Wassily Kandinsky. The story "The Dot" explores the idea that anyone can be an artist by starting with a small mark on a piece of paper. Each year group were given a single colour to work with and then created a self-portrait on one circle and patterns on another. To add depth and contrast, the children explored tints, hues and shades and added texture using different marks and lines. The circles are going to be used to create our very own Boundary Dot display.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:42pm
Inspired by the book 'The Dot' by Peter Reynolds and the work of abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), pupils have created their own artwork using a single colour to create a self-portrait within a dot. This required a variety of skills including sketching, colour mixing and painting. Pupils were asked to consider colour, tone and hue when completing their final piece. Soon, the artwork will be combined with work from other year groups and displayed around the school.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 4:28pm
Today, we participated in Art Day based upon the book 'The Dot' inspiring that anyone can be an artist by starting with a mark. First, we explored making a portrait focusing on practicing how to draw our key features and drew them on an orange dot as this was our colour of focus. Finally, this afternoon we explored creating patterns using three colours: red, orange and yellow.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 2:26pm
We began our new half term by reading the story 'The Dot.' We talked about the message in the story and the characteristics the character shows. We then painted a background on our circles, before creating two different dots. One showed a self portrait of ourselves and on the other we created a pattern dot using oil pastels and felt tips.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 10:45am
Acorns had an enjoyable week exploring what Easter means to different people. We listened to the Easter story, created lots of Easter art and enjoyed lots of sensory activities.
Our favourite was the Easter egg hunt, we enjoyed searching for lots of different colourful eggs hidden around the playground.
We also had great fun making fruit kebabs and exploring different fruits through our senses. All ready for nexts term's theme of growing.
Happy Easter everyone.
