Classes

Food Savvy

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Environment, Kingfishers, Owls, Parents, Swans, Woodpeckers

The children welcomed Sam from the Waste Department at Babergh District Council into their school. In assembly Sam spoke to the children about Halloween and about pumpkins. The children were told 16 million pumpkins will go to waste this year. The children were told how they can use the whole pumpkin to eat – skin, […]

McMillan Coffee Morning

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Achievements, Classes, Community, Fundraising, PTA

On Friday 4th October, the PTA organised a coffee morning and cake sale with the proceeds going to the McMillan Cancer Support charity. Thank you for your generosity – an amazing £219 was raised.  

Fireworks

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The reception children became artists and used ‘loose parts’ to create a collage. The children were encouraged to use the ‘loose parts’ to create fireworks. Great work Kingfishers.

Maths in Woodpeckers!

by | 10 Oct 2024 | Maths, Woodpeckers

In maths this half term, both year groups have looked at place value. We identified what each digit represented in a two or three digit number and could partition given numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.

All about tenses!

by | 10 Oct 2024 | English, Woodpeckers

This week and last week we have been learning about the simple past and the simple present tense. We found out that regular verbs add the suffix -ed to make them the simple past tense. Some irregular verbs changed completely when talking about the past, e.g. fight to fought. Usually, the present simple verb doesn’t […]

Greek Scientists – Hippocrates

by | 10 Oct 2024 | History, Owls, Science

Owls’ Science topic this half term is linked to our History topic on the Ancient Greeks. We have been looking at Ancient Greek scientists and the contribution they made to our modern understanding of science. This week, we looked at Hippocrates – “the father of modern medicine”. We watched a video, answered questions and then […]

Titanic Biographies

by | 9 Sep 2024 | English, History, Swans

In History, the Swans have been writing biographies about the different passengers on board the Titanic. They loved the creative slant to this task!

Outdoor Art

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Art & Design, Kingfishers

The Reception children became ‘artists’. The children went on a walk to collect natural objects such as feathers, grass, flower buds or heads, leaves, twigs, pine cones. The children looked at the collection and discussed how they might use the objects to create paintbrushes. They also thought about what kind of pattern or texture they […]

Our Titanic display

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Art & Design, English, Swans

The Swans have been writing diaries in role as somebody on board the Titanic. They have also produced some amazing sketches of the ship.    

Anglo-Saxons Invade!

by | 9 Sep 2024 | English, History, Woodpeckers

Today we reported on the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, explaining who they were and where they came from. We added a picture, caption and headline to our short newspaper report.

Titanic History

by | 9 Sep 2024 | History, Swans

We have been learning about the different classes on board Titanic. The children were given the freedom to present their work however they saw fit – there were some amazing results!

Thinking about Bird Wildlife in Forest Schools

by | 9 Sep 2024 | Forest Schools, Kingfishers

The children had their‘ Forest Fun’ session with Mrs Clark and Mrs Martin. The children sat in the tree stump circle and talked about birds and how we will need to start thinking about looking after them during the winter months. The children listened to a bird song (Mrs Martin had toy birds with their […]