Classes
The Swans have been learning about life as an evacuee. They went into role as a child who had been evacuated from the city to the countryside and shared their experience in an interview. We found out that not all evacuees had a good time!
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 children took it in turns to explore and play […]
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 travel about. He also told […]
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, big explosion, shop, fire over […]
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. The highlight for most of us was learning about the […]
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!
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!
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 tutorial where we learnt to draw portraits of Queen […]
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 Kingfishers.
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 children have also been challenged to see how many […]
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 pollen runs out. Miss Jones explained […]
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.