Curriculum
The children in Kingfishers Class began exploring their new topic for this half term. The children received a letter from Farmer MacDonald asking for the children’s help. Farmer MacDonald had woken up to find his animals had disappeared. The children went for a hunt around the classroom looking for the missing animals. They found the […]
The children helped to fill the planters with soil and planted the seed potatoes. Some of the children wrote a label for the potatoes that we are growing. The potatoes we are growing are called Shannon and Casablanca. We talked about how the potatoes grow underground in the dark and if we see a shoot […]
The children became ‘artists’ and thought about the question – Can we learn how to fold, curl and cut paper to achieve a desired effect? Today the children practised manipulating paper by making a paper snake. The children listened to Mrs Clark’s instructions and the children followed them. The children tried really hard! Well done […]
The children took part in a gymnastics lesson with Mrs Allum. The theme today was jungle animals! The warm up involved the children jogging round the hall and stopping when Mrs Allum gave them an instruction. They had different actions for branches, quicksand and monkey! The children then went on mats, in pairs. Mrs Allum […]
The Swans had an amazing time in Cambridge yesterday. The Boy At The Back Of The Class was incredible; the children loved it and it really did serve to embed all they had learnt about migration in their previous Geography/English topic. We also took time to look at the beautiful buildings around Cambridge – in […]
Miss Bailey showed the children a bag and asked the children to guess what was inside. They opened it to find potatoes. Miss Bailey read the instructions and the children looked and helped Miss Bailey to place the seed potatoes on the chitting tray. Miss Bailey said they needed to be placed in the sun […]
On Monday 12th February the children celebrated Chinese New Year. The children listened to Miss Jones as she talked about the Chinese New Year. They took part in different activities – making lucky red envelopes, making Chinese dragons and colouring in dragon pictures. Great work Kingfishers.
Florence told Miss Jones that we had been at school for 100 days and found number 100 on the hundred square and wrote number 100. The children came to school in their 100 Day T- shirts and outfits. To celebrate our 100 days of school, Laura the school cook baked us a lovely cake! Thank […]
The children welcomed their family members to Kingfishers Toy Museum. The children took on the role of tour guide. The children showed their family member around the toy museum. Thank you for coming the children really enjoyed showing their visitors around the toy museum.
The Swans have been writing reports about Owls in English this term. To enhance their learning, we have been dissecting owl pellets! There were some interesting discoveries!
This half term in Design Technology the children have focused on Puppets. The children have learned how to join fabrics together using different methods. The children learned how to pin, staple and glue two pieces of fabric together. The trickiest method was using safety pins, the easiest joining technique was glueing but the most effective […]
The children were very excited to see the tractor arriving at school. They went out to see the tractor and Farmer James. Farmer James talked to the children about his tractor and about what he does on his farm. The children were able to answer questions that the farmer asked. The children were very well […]