News About Our School
Make the Classroom Disappear – The Great fire of London
The children in Kingfishers Class took part in ‘The Great Fire of London’ workshop. The children met Christopher and and listened to the story of ‘The Great Fire of London’. They helped to retell the story by putting out the scenery and being different characters. The...
People Who Help Us – Police Visit
The children in Kingfishers class had a visit from PC Johnson (CPT officer). He came to talk to them about being a police officer. He told the children all about his uniform and the equipment he carries. He spoke to the children about what the police does and how they...
Immersion Afternoon – The Great Fire of London
The Year One children found out about their new topic - The Great Fire of London. The children looked at pictures and used their senses to describe what they could see in the pictures. The children saw - a big fire, cloud of smoke, path, lots of smoke, thin doorways,...
Make The Classroom Disappear – Ancient Egypt
On Wednesday 10th September, the Owls took part in a workshop on Ancient Egypt, run by Make The Classroom Disappear. They experienced writing the Egyptian number system on wax tablets and making mud bricks. We learnt about the layout of an Ancient Egyptian house too....
Stone Age Art
This term in art we are looking at Prehistoric Art, focusing on the Stone Age! We are linking this in through forest school where we will eventually be creating our own cave art paintings using natural resources from the forest area! [gallery...
The Swans Get Ready for their new WW2 Topic!
As part of our Immersion Day, we made WW2 airplanes - German and British. The children worked really hard to create these from a plastic bottle and modroc - it wasn't as easy as it may look!
Ancient Egypt Immersion Day
The Owls started the new school year with a whole day of activities about Ancient Egypt, which is our first History topic. The children took part in an archaeological dig and made pyramids out of spaghetti and marshmallows. We also took part in an online drawing...
Kingfishers Class Assembly
The Kingfishers performed their end of year class assembly. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children told the audience about seasides in the past, acted out the story ‘The Train Ride’ and sang songs. A great assembly...
PE – Tennis
In PE last half term, the children in Kingfishers Class have been learning the skills to play tennis. The children have learned how to hold the racket correctly, how to stand in the ready position and using their hand eye coordination when controlling the ball. The...
World Bee Day Forest Schools
The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session.. The children sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play the bee pollen game. The aim of the game was for each nest to collect as much pollen as possible before the...
Samba
This week, the Owls are learning about samba music. Today they got the chance to experiment with some samba-style instruments. Later in the week, we hope to perform a samba batucada as a group.
Immersion Afternoon – Water / Seas and Coasts
The children in Kingfishers Class were introduced to their new topic - Water / Seas and Coasts. The children received a letter from Dillon - A deep sea diver and a bag of plastic bottles. Miss Jones read the letter to the class. Dillon asked the children if they could...
Forest Fun Bees
The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session and sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play the butterfly game. The aim of the game was to find the over half of their butterfly. Miss Jones told the children they...
Computing Beebots
The children have been exploring the unit Programming Beebot in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we explore a new device? Mrs Clark showed the children a Beebot and explained to them that Beebots follow instructions but that she was not...
Science Club: Bridge Challenge
Last week, in Science Club, we did a bridge building challenge. The children had to work in groups to make a paper bridge that would support as much weight as possible. The winners were the Year 3 team, who made a bridge that held almost 4kg! [gallery...
Walk To School Week
The JRSOs challenged the children, parents and staff were all asked to join in 'Walk to School Week' so we could have a car free zone in Strickmere. They were reminded of the benefits of walking to school: it keeps us healthy and it helps to protect the environment....
HTML
This week, in Computing, Owls class are learning about HTML. Today, we learnt how to inspect the HTML on a website. We noted down the different HTML tags we spotted.
Batik prints
For our Art last half term, Owls made batik prints using colours and patterns inspired by the ancient Maya.
Computing
The children in Reception have been exploring hardware in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question - Can we explore and tinker with hardware to develop familiarity? The children explored the tinker tray of objects. The children were asked to match...
Harvesting Potatoes
The children in Reception were very excited about digging up the potatoes and seeing how many they got. The children dug through the soil with their hands collecting the potatoes. The children had to look carefully to make sure they hadn’t left any. They also weighed...
Rainbow Salad
The Reception children were asked if they knew the differences between fruits and vegetables and why it is important to eat fruits and vegetables? Mrs Clark talked about what it means to have a balanced diet and the importance of healthy eating (so that we are able to...
Level Two The Royal Horticultural Society School Gardening Award
We have achieved our Level Two 'The Royal Horticultural Society' School Gardening Award. We have shown that we all contribute to our gardening plans, we are learning new gardening skills and using gardening to support our wellbeing. We are now working towards Level...
Forest Fun – Mini Creatures
The children in Kingfishers Class had another ‘Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Miss Jones. They sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play Kim’s Game. The children had to remember the items Miss Jones had on...
RHS School Gardening Awards
We have achieved our Level One The Royal Horticultural Society School Gardening Award. We have shown that we understand the benefits of gardening, our growing space is accessible and we have started gardening. We are now working towards Level Two. [gallery...