Miss Jones

Favourite Footwear

by | 5 May 2017 | JRSO, School Events

The JRSO’s asked the children to wear their favourite footwear on Wednesday 17th May to raise money for our Action Aid Child (during Walk to School Week). The children wore an assortment of footwear including trainers, sandals and slippers. Thank you very much for all your donations.

Around The World Assembly

by | 5 May 2017 | Geography, Kingfishers, Maths

The Kingfishers Class took to the stage for their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up, talk and sing to the audience. The children proudly showed their work and talked about what they had learnt. The children talked about their Maths, counting back from 20 with their rockets, counting in 2s, 5s and […]

Scooter Ability Club

by | 4 Apr 2017 | JRSO

The JRSO’s decided to run a scooter ability after school club for the children in Kingfisher Class. The JRSO’s felt they wanted to teach the youngest children in school how to travel safely on their scooters, as most of these children scoot to school.  The JRSO’s did a safety check on the children’s scooters to make sure they were safe to ride. […]

Creatures, Beans and Mother’s Day

by | 3 Mar 2017 | Kingfishers, Science

On Friday 24th March 2017 it was the turn of Kingfishers to show their work in their class assembly. The children were confident to stand up, talk and sing to the audience. The children proudly showed their work and talked about what they had learnt. They talked about pancakes, showing the shopping lists they had written […]

Forest Fun

by | 3 Mar 2017 | Uncategorised

The children were excited for the start of Forest Fun sessions in the schools wildlife area. The children played 123 where are you? And they had to use their listening ears. The children remembered that they had been learning about bugs in class and Miss Jones talked to them about an activity they would be […]

Visit to the Vets

by | 3 Mar 2017 | Uncategorised

The Kingfishers class went to visit Penrose Veterinary Surgery in the village to consolidate their learning about pets. The children were shown around the surgery and met the staff and JB the tortoise. The children were shown some x rays of animals and they had to guess what was wrong with them. One x ray […]

Planting Potatoes

by | 3 Mar 2017 | Uncategorised

The children in Kingfishers class have enjoyed planting potatoes. The children worked with a partner putting compost into pots and placing seed potatoes in with the shoots pointing upwards. The children added more compost and watered them. The pots were covered with fleece to keep them warm and away from the frost. The children will […]

World Book Day

by | 3 Mar 2017 | Uncategorised

Today the children and teachers dressed up as their favourite book character to celebrate World Book Day. The children enjoyed a morning of activities based on different books. The children worked in their house groups and visited each classroom where the teacher provided them with exciting activities. With Mr Bassett the children used the iPad to make a […]

Singing and Stories

by | 2 Feb 2017 | Uncategorised

It was the turn of the children in Kingfisher’s class for their assembly. The children confidently talked about what they had been doing in class. They talked about signs of Winter, Chinese New Year, Traditional Tales and talked about their Forest Schools sessions. They proudly showed their Chinese writing, Chinese dragons, paintings of bears and their Forest Schools journal. They demonstrated […]

Parking Patrol

by | 1 Jan 2017 | Community, JRSO, Parents, Swans

On Wednesday 18th January the JRSO’s and Denise the Community Police Officer observed the parking outside the school gates at the end of the school day. The JRSO’s were making sure drivers had parked safely and correctly. With support from Denise,  the JRSO’s looked at the cars individually and made a decision on which ticket the driver […]

Book Club

by | 1 Jan 2017 | Extracurricular, Woodpeckers

Children from the Woodpeckers Class joined Miss Jones and Mrs Kite for Book Club. The children enjoyed listening to the story Room On The Broom by Julia Donaldson before doing activities based on the book. The children made their own potions, collecting items from outside and using coloured water. They used their imagination to think what their potion […]

Forest Schools

by | 1 Jan 2017 | Environment, Kingfishers

The children in Kingfishers Class participated in their first Forest Schools session. They followed instructions and walked with their partners to the forests, watching where they were going and crossing the road carefully. When they arrived in the forest they sat in a circle with the children from Orchard Barns and listened to Terry the leader […]