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Seaside Writing

Seaside Writing

The children were asked to look at the picture of the beach and write sentences about the picture. The children were encouraged to say the sentence first and then to write it using the word mats and phonic knowledge. Miss Jones was very impressed with the children's...

Pyjamarama Day

Pyjamarama Day

On Friday 14th May, the children, parents and staff arrived at school wearing their pyjamas to celebrate Pyjamarama Day. During the day the children in Kingfishers Class enjoyed reading books in their pyjamas and designing new pyjamas. The children were asked to...

Pasta & Polo Mint Mars Rovers

Pasta & Polo Mint Mars Rovers

This week the Swans have been engineers. They were involved in a mission from NASA - they were given a budget of 6 million dollars to design a new rover for Mars. First they identified the axles, suspension etc on existing rovers. They then used different types of...

Fluffy Ducklings

Fluffy Ducklings

Kingfisher Class visited the school ducklings this week. They showed great interest in them, asking questions and talking about what they looked like and what they were doing. We talked about what the ducklings needed and why they had webbed feet. We talked about...

Stones

Stones

This children went and visited the sensory garden which Miss Bailey is creating on the school field. Miss Bailey told the children she would like them to decorate a stone for the pebble river. The children were asked to think of and draw their design first. The...

Caterpillars and Butterflies

Caterpillars and Butterflies

The children have been very interested in their caterpillars and are enjoying watching them grow. The children have been observing them and writing an entry in their caterpillar diary. They have been learning about the lifecycle of a butterfly and learning about the...

100 Days Celebration

100 Days Celebration

Thursday 29th April, marked Kingfishers 100th day at school and the children came in wearing their 100 themed t - shirts. They also had a very special visitor Sir Captain Tom Moore! The children had lots of challenges to complete in 100 seconds from writing their name...

Darts (Maths) Fun!

Darts (Maths) Fun!

The swans have been practising their number skills of doubling, trebling, addition, subtraction and multiplication by playing Darts! They had so much fun!  

Big Bang Theory!

Big Bang Theory!

This week,  the Swans have been learning about The Big Bang Theory. In order to understand this theory of how the universe expanded from one single point (over 13 billion years ago), the children carried out an investigation involving balloons! They recorded data in...

Crawling Caterpillars

Crawling Caterpillars

Kingfishers received a very special delivery today. It said ‘Fragile Open immediately!’ The children were intrigued to find out what was inside. Mrs Clark opened the box and showed the children the pot. The children recognised them as caterpillars. Mrs Clark told the...

Ducklings Have Arrived

Ducklings Have Arrived

On Tuesday, 20th April, we took delivery of 6 duck eggs.  They were popped into an incubator and throughout the course of the week, 6 ducklings hatched.   The children have been fascinated by these arrivals and have been following their progress.  One has been called...

Earth Day in the Owls

Earth Day in the Owls

To celebrate Earth Day, on 22nd April, the Owls had an off-curriculum day. We began by holding a class assembly where the children were introduced to this year's theme, which was Restore The Earth. We spent a long time discussing the things that we, personally, could...

Slavery and Sewing in Swans

Slavery and Sewing in Swans

This term,  the children are learning about Thomas Clarkson and his contribution towards the abolishment of slavery. This week, in Art, the children learnt about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a term used for a network of...

Easter Community Cheer

Easter Community Cheer

The children in Kingfishers Class took part in an Easter colouring competition. They were asked to to do their best colouring on a piece of Easter bunting. The Easter bunting went to Blackbrook Residential Care Home, to brighten up their Easter. The children also...

Writing A Travel Guide

This half term, the Owls' topic is The Mediterranean. Each pair was given a Mediterranean city to write a travel guide on. We used our Computing skills to research the cities and to word process, adding images, fonts and colours. In our Literacy lessons, we practised...

Painting Like Michelangelo

To tie in with our Mediterranean topic, the Owls have been looking at some famous artists from the Mediterranean. One that we looked at was Michelangelo. We looked at his work painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and how he had to paint lying on his back....

Colour Census

Colour Census

The children in Kingfishers Class have been learning all about the Census. The children have been learning how to ask questions in preparation for their ‘mini census’. The children were asked to think of a question and  write it down using a question mark. The...

Repetitive Patterns in Art

Repetitive Patterns in Art

The children have been drawing repetitive patterns as part of their collage work. These will  be ripped up and added to their oil pastel patterns to form the background to their animal collage. [gallery...

Back To School

Back To School

The children in Kingfishers Class were all happy and excited to be back at school. They were very pleased to see their friends again and enjoyed seeing and talking to them. The children have enjoyed getting back into the school routine and doing their school work....

A Fascinating Biome

A Fascinating Biome

The children in Swans have been thinking about why it is important to protect our rainforests. They have been busy creating our class rainforest display and have produced some wonderful 'Double-Page Spreads' about this fascinating biome in Geography [gallery...

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