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Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:28pm
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, the children were invited to come in dressed up as a book character. We had a range of creative costumes from Harry Potter to an Ancient Egyptian! The children enjoyed going up into the library and reading a book, we also completed a book review and spoke about who we were dressed up as.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:13pm
Acorns loved engaging in world book day activities. We looked fantastic in our outfits.
We enjoyed lots of mark making with crayons until they quit and we had to use different mediums including paint and chalk instead.
We all engaged in listening to the story for a short burst and loved listening to each other’s stories that we came dressed up in.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 2:08pm
Acorns enjoyed lots of fun and messy play on pancake day. We even made our own pancake faces with a choice of fruit. Some of us tried the bananas or strawberries and enjoyed eating the pancakes.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 1:57pm
How incredible do we all look?! What a turn out for World Book Day 2025. Today we all dressed as our favourite book characters. We used our oracy skills to talk about who we were and why we picked our character. We then solved some book themed riddles and wrote our own riddle about our character.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 12:54pm
We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities!
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 12:34pm
We are having a very excited World Book Day! We have been making boomarks, creating self portraits of ourselves and sharing our favourite stories.
We all look fabulous.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 11:01am
We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities! We drew pictures of us in our costumes, wrote sentences to explain who we were, read different stories and made World Book Day bookmarks.
Date: 5th Mar 2025 @ 10:56am
This half term we have been learning how to count objects more efficiently by grouping into tens and ones. Today we practised counting groups of tens using tens frames to support our understanding.
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:18pm
Nursery celebrated Pancake day with a stack of delicious pancakes! We read the story "Mr Wolf's Pancakes" and talked about the ingredients you need to make the pancake batter. We talked a little bit about why we celebrate Shrove Tuesday before the children helped to mix the pancake batter. They children watched patiently as Mrs Welch cooked the pancakes and even managed to successfully toss a few! It was all worth the wait as the chidlren thought the pancakes were delicious!
Nursery get in to Bubbly Troubly!
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:10pm
We have really enjoyed reading another Supertato adventure - Supertato Bubbly Troubly! This time the Evil Pea cause chaos by swapping normal bubbles for bubbles that cause trouble! The children created their own bubbly trouble by seeing who could blow the biggest bubble mountain and then making a picture! They did this by using a mixture of water, food colouring annd washing up liquid and then creating a print from the bubble on paper. It was a lot of bubbly fun!
Year 1 Polar and Desert Habitats
Date: 3rd Mar 2025 @ 7:52pm
Today we learnt about two habitats – a polar habitat and a desert habitat. We began by identifying the features of a polar habitat, watching a short video and looking at photos. We looked at the climate in a polar habitat, animals that live there and how they are suitable to their habitat. We then began to look at a desert habitat, again identifying the features by watching a short video and looking at photos. We then looked at a number of animals that live in the desert and learnt about how they are suited to that habitat. We then completed a desert and polar habitat sort with a partner, verbally discussing the reasons and explaining how we know which animals live where.
Year 3- Developing our key skills
Date: 3rd Mar 2025 @ 4:44pm
As part of our DT learning, the children have been looking at how the 3-D shell structures can be deconstructed into nets. Today we looked at developing our key skills of understanding and exploring nets. The children looked at making a range of different nets and also thought about which 3-D shape matched to which net.
Date: 3rd Mar 2025 @ 3:13pm
This week, we had a visit from Lydia who owns and teaches at Euphoria Dance and Therapy. It was great having Lydia in telling us all about how she became not only a dance teacher but now owns and runs her own dance business. The children listened intently and asked some great questions. Each half term now we are going to have visitors as we explore lots of different careers.
Acorns - Commotion in the Ocean
Date: 1st Mar 2025 @ 7:53am
This terms topic is Let's go wild! This week Acorns have been reading Commotion in the Ocean and learning about all things fishy!
We enjoyed listening to the story and exploring all the different animals. We hunted for the animals in our understanding the sea tuff tray and developed our counting skills, counting the sea creatures during maths.
We loved the sensory spaghetti seaweed in our outdoor area and getting messy playing with the animals alongside our peers.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 6:07pm
After our assembly about Mental Health Week, we learnt more about this years theme 'know yourself, grow yourself' through our PSHE lesson. We recapped on what mental health is, the importance of our own mental health and what we can do to look after ourselves. We also took part in lots of discussion to talk about our differences, things we are interested in, talents we have and our dreams for the future.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 6:00pm
Today, Eshal was so excited to share her religion with the class! Since we’ve been learning about Islam in R.E., she brought in some special items she uses during her prayer ceremonies. Eshal unveiled her beautiful prayer mat, showed us her prayer beads, explaining their significance and shared the Kida that she reads daily. She even demonstrated how she performs her prayers, inviting us to ask questions throughout. It was lovely to see her enthusiasm as she described the importance of her faith and the way she connects with it daily. The whole class really enjoyed her sharing her religion and can’t wait to learn more about it over the next few weeks!
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 8:10am
Yesterday, we had our first forest school session of the Spring term. Whilst in the forest school area, we went searching for worms in the area as well as other bugs that were out there and discussed how the conditions were right for their survival.
Nursery Try to Capture the Evil Pea!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:42pm
We have been reading the story "Supertato" and came to school to find that the Evil Pea had captured all the veggies and then disappeared! We decided we needed to find the Evil Pea so we made some Wanted Posters. The children drew a picture of the Evil Pea and then wrote P for pea. Let's hope it helps to capture the Evil Pea!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:33pm
Nursery had a visit from Zoe who works for the library service. We were very excitied to show her our school Library and Zoe was equally excited to see it! While she was here, Zoe read us a Supertato story and then we were given a Bookstart pack to take home with some lovely stories to share at home.
Reception Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:47pm
This week we have been reading the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. The children have been been busy completing lots of different activities based around the story. The children have enjoyed writng about the story and character, retelling the story at the storytelling table, collaging their own bears using a range of materials, making different sized bears out of playdough and using the lego to make beds and chairs for the the bear. They have also been ordering bears up to 10, comparing different quantitiees of bears using the vocabularly more than or less than andexploring number bonds to 5 and ten at our Goldilocks themed maths table.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 11:59am
This week the children we invited to bring their favourite teddy to school. Our focus was to compare how teddies have changed and evolved over time. Mrs Clark brought a very old traditional teddy bear in from home and the children identified siliarities and differences with their bear. We recapped some key vocabularly 'past' and 'present' and used these words to create our own sentences.
"My teddy is different because it has sequins on it"
"Teddy bears from the present can be different colours"
"My teddy is a Ninja Turtle. They only made bears in the past"
As a follow up activity the children collaged their own traditional teddy bear at the creative table, sorted pictures correctly into past and present and dreew and labelled their bears explaining to an adult how it was similiar or different to Mrs Clarks.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:04am
In Oracy, we played a game of ‘Taboo’ to start. We had to use appropriate vocabulary to describe things on a card but we were not allowed to use some common words! Next, we practised how we would say a sentence in different ways. Finally, our main task was focusing on reasoning. We had to decide what we would do if we ruled the world and give a reason why. Other children in class then had to disagree with the statement and explain their challenge.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am
Mr Jones' maths group have been working really hard in Maths this week to understand Algebra. We started by looking at 1 and 2 step function machines before learning about formulas, expressions and substitution.
Year 3 - Improvising and composing!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:17am
In Year 3, we have been looking at composing and improvising skills. The children used the Glockenspiels to accompany the track “You’re a shining star”. Firstly, the children used the notes G, A, B , C, D to improvise with the music. When then uses a 4/4 score paper to compose our own piece along with the backing track.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:16am
Year 6 talked about our whole school focus - Mental Health Week - and discussed the theme 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'. We discussed that if we can understand ourselves and what triggers our emotions, we can better manage these. We completed some activities based around the characters in the film 'Inside Out'.
