News About Our School
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
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
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....
British Science Week – Zoom
To celebrate British Science Week, Owls & Swans took part in a Zoom session run by Dr Mandy Hartley. The children learnt about DNA and how it is useful to both historians and scientists.
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...
World Book Day 2021
The children at school and home participated in World Book Day. They dressed up as their favourite book characters and enjoyed challenges linked to World Book Day! The staff took part in 'The Masked Reader' where the children had to guess who was reading behind the...
Kindness Hearts for Blackbrook Nursing Home
During this lockdown the children have written messages of kindness to the local nursing home. The children wanted them to know we are still thinking of them. They each wrote a personal message on a heart to bring them some cheer.
Thank you from FIND!
Thank you for your generous donations which were greatly received and distributed.
We’re Going on a Baby Hunt
We all know it has been different this year, but we wanted to make it as normal as possible. So the children in Kingfishers Class performed 'We're Going on a Baby Hunt'. The children dressed up and had a fantastic time performing it! The parents loved it! [gallery...
The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer Bells
This week the Year One children had a mathematical mystery to solve. They were asked to solve the mystery of the missing reindeer bells. They had five clues to solve which involved counting, measuring, adding, subtracting and working with numbers to 100. The children...
Christmas Community Cheer
The Kingfishers Class worked together to create a class Christmas bauble. It looked great and the children coloured in their section very carefully. Miss Cousins stuck the all the pieces together. Miss Cousins is going to take the Christmas bauble to Blackbrook House...
Glitter, Glitter Everywhere!
Woodpeckers children got creative last week making some beautiful decorations for their classroom. Lots of Design and Technology skills were used as well as a variety of material to create different decorations. The classroom now looks very festive! [gallery...
Waxing or Waning
In Science, Woodpeckers have been creating models to show how the Moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun. We also learned how the Moon reflects sunlight - we see the Moon in different shapes depending on how much sunlight is blocked by the Earth! I wonder...
Owls’ Boat Race
As part of our Science topic on Forces, the Owls looked at water resistance and how it can be overcome by streamlining. They had to design and then build boats to be as streamlined as possible in order to move the fastest through the water. We timed each boat and the...
Christmas Challenges
The Reception children have been given lots of challenges to complete this week. They had to colour in Santa's clothes, cut them out and dress Santa. They were asked to decorate the Christmas tree by colouring in decorations, cutting them out and sticking them on...
Elves Excitement
The elves have been leaving the children in Kingfishers Class lots of different challenges. They set up a photo booth so the children (and some of the adults) could have their photographs taken with some props. They wrote maths sums on the bananas for the children to...
Christmas Elves Return
On Monday the children in Kingfishers Class found their classroom had been decorated ready for Christmas. They also found a present under the Christmas tree which contained Tinsel and Jingle the Christmas Elves. The children have enjoyed seeing what Tinsel and Jingle...
Building Rooms for the Titanic
As part of our half term topic based on 'The Titanic', the Swans children started to construct their Titanic rooms. Lots of Design and Technology skills were used - including using the saws!
Roving Reporters
Woodpecker's roving reporters went back in time to 1969 - the day after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon. We wrote newspaper reports of the historic event, then made News Round style video recordings which we shared with the class! One small step for Neil...
Sinking Ships…or Not?
This week in science, the Swans have been learning about why boats don’t sink. They discovered that the shape of the object affects its ability to float. They looked at an object’s buoyancy in relation to the Archimedes Principle and had lots of fun trying to design...
Christmas in Kingfishers Class
Om Monday morning, the children arrived at school to find their classroom had been decorated ready for Christmas - they were all were very excited! Since then, the children have been busy doing lots of Christmas activities. They have decorated their own tree, made...
Kingfishers’ Christmas Cards
The children began making their Christmas cards; they used the computer to type their message for their card. The children were able to find the letters on the keyboard to spell their message. Great typing skills Kingfishers!
Spencer’s Birthday
The children enjoyed celebrating Spencer Bear's birthday. Spencer Bear opened his cards with the help from the children. The children enjoyed their crisps and fairy cake and sang Happy Birthday to Spencer. The children had a lovely time and so did Spencer Bear!...
Road Safety Week
For Road Safety week, the Owls recorded radio adverts about subjects related to road safety. The subjects covered were: The Green Cross Code, walking safely in the dark, being a safe car passenger and cycling safety. The children wrote scripts for their adverts and...