Classes
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.
The children in Kingfishers Class were introduced to their new topic – Water / Seas and Coasts. The children received a letter from Dillon – A deep sea diver and a bag of plastic bottles. Miss Jones read the letter to the class. Dillon asked the children if they could find his fish and treasure […]
The children had their ‘Forest Fun’ session and sat in the wooden stump circle and Miss Jones explained to the children they were going to play the butterfly game. The aim of the game was to find the over half of their butterfly. Miss Jones told the children they would be focusing on butterflies during […]
The children have been exploring the unit Programming Beebot in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question – Can we explore a new device? Mrs Clark showed the children a Beebot and explained to them that Beebots follow instructions but that she was not going to tell them how. The children listened to Mrs […]
The JRSOs challenged the children, parents and staff were all asked to join in ‘Walk to School Week’ so we could have a car free zone in Strickmere. They were reminded of the benefits of walking to school: it keeps us healthy and it helps to protect the environment. In the classroom, teachers displayed a […]
This week, in Computing, Owls class are learning about HTML. Today, we learnt how to inspect the HTML on a website. We noted down the different HTML tags we spotted.
For our Art last half term, Owls made batik prints using colours and patterns inspired by the ancient Maya.
The children in Reception have been exploring hardware in Computing. The children thought about the enquiry question – Can we explore and tinker with hardware to develop familiarity? The children explored the tinker tray of objects. The children were asked to match the everyday technology images to the objects. The children were encouraged to name […]
The children in Reception 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. They also weighed the potatoes! The children listened to instructions and were […]