Miss Jones

Colour Detectives

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The children in Year One became ‘artists’ and started a new unit of work – Painting and Mixed Media. The children thought about the question – Can we investigate how to mix secondary colours? The children listened to the Sesame Street Lego Three Primary Colours. Miss Jones asked the children some questions- What are the […]

Guy Fawkes Immersion Day

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Curriculum, Kingfishers, News

The children in Kingfishers Class began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children received a letter inviting them to a firework party. The children were asked to work together to build a Guy. Miss Jones read the instructions and the children followed them with support. The children learned about why the guy […]

JRSO Gold Award

by | 7 Jul 2024 | JRSO

The JRSOs at Stratford St Mary Primary School were awarded a Gold Award for all their hard work this year.  They completed a scrapbook informing others of what they had done to encourage and promote road safety within school. Great work JRSOs we are very proud of your work and the Gold Award.  

London Writing

by | 7 Jul 2024 | English, Kingfishers

The children in Kingfishers Class have been very busy learning about London. The Year One children have been creating leaflets all about London. The children choose different London landmarks and wrote facts about them. The children shared their leaflets with the children in Year Six. They were very impressed with their London leaflets. The Reception […]

Caterpillars

by | 6 Jun 2024 | Kingfishers, Science

The children had a lovely surprise, they received some caterpillars in the post. The children had a good look at the caterpillars, then started their caterpillar diaries! They wrote about the caterpillars and drew a picture. The children will continue to observe the caterpillars over the next few weeks to see what happens!

Harvesting Potatoes

by | 6 Jun 2024 | Design Technology, Kingfishers, Science

The children in Kingfishers Class 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. The children then listened to instructions and were able to clean […]

Kingfishers Assembly – Tour Of London

by | 6 Jun 2024 | Kingfishers, Parents

It was Kingfishers Class’ turn to perform their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up and perform to the audience. The children took the audience on a tour of London and talked about what they had enjoyed learning at school and sang ‘The Wheels on the Bus’. The children received a ‘Superstar’ certificate […]

Art – Landscape Farm

by | 5 May 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

This half term in art, the Year One children have been working on the unit of work – Landscapes using different Media – The Farm. The children thought about the question – Can we create details using controlled painting and other materials and objects? Today the children painted their cut out pictures from lesson one. […]

History – Grains

by | 5 May 2024 | History, Kingfishers

The children became historians. The children continued focusing on the question – Would you have rather been a farmer in Stratford St Mary in the past or now? The children recapped over last week’s learning thinking about how jobs on the farm have changed over time. The children thought about the enquiry question – Have […]

Tennis

by | 5 May 2024 | Kingfishers, PE

This half term the children have been learning how to play tennis. Each week the children have been building up their skills which have included catching, hand eye coordination and movement. This has enabled the children to put the skills altogether to play tennis. Well done Kingfishers.

Art – Observational Drawings

by | 5 May 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work – Drawing: Marvellous Marks. The children thought about the question – Can we mark make using pencils to create a simple observational drawing? The children drew their self portraits using a mirror to observe their features. They were then given a halved picture of […]

Chalk Mark Making

by | 5 May 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The children became ‘artists’ and continued with the unit of work – Drawing: Marvellous Marks. The children thought about the question – Can we explore making marks with chalk? The children were given time to feel the chalk and comment on what they noticed. Mrs Clark told the children they were going to mark make […]