Curriculum

DT Cooking and Nutrition Smoothies

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Design Technology, Kingfishers

The children in Year One continued focusing on Cooking and Nutrition: Smoothies. The children thought about the question – Can we practise food preparation skills? The children were asked to speak like an expert and tell their friends everything they knew about fruit and vegetables. Miss Jones showed the children the equipment they would be […]

Dinosaurs at Colchester Zoo

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Kingfishers, Science, Trips

The children in Kingfishers Class enjoyed a trip to Colchester Zoo. The children enjoyed looking at the animals and travelling on the train. The children also enjoyed exploring the dinosaur park and the palaeontology lab. The children engaged with the education session – Fastest, Biggest, Strongest – Who’s top in the animal world? The children […]

Multiplying

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Maths, Woodpeckers

This week in Woodpeckers, we have started looking at multiplying numbers together. Learning our times tables through TT Rockstars, or playing Hit the Button (which is a website you can find by googling!) is so important to all areas of mathematics. We will use our times table knowledge to solve longer word problems at the […]

Young Voices at the O2

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Music, News, Owls, Swans, Trips

On Friday 24th January, we took 21 children from Years 4, 5 & 6 to the O2 in London to perform in the Young Voices Choir of 2025. They performed many songs from a variety of genres of music alongside approx. 8000 other young people, to a packed audience. Thanks to everyone who was involved […]

Swans’ Trip to Colchester Zoo

by | 1 Jan 2025 | News, Science, Swans, Trips, Visits

On Wednesday 22nd January, the Swans class visited Colchester Zoo. As well as having plenty of opportunities to look at all the different animals, the children took part in a workshop about Charles Darwin. They learnt about the life and work of Darwin. They were given field journals and had to identify bugs and their […]

Victorian London

by | 1 Jan 2025 | English, History, Woodpeckers

In English, we have been using our senses to imagine what Victorian London may have been like. We thought about what we could see, hear and smell if we were there. In our writing we tried to use adventurous adjectives and some expanded noun phrases. After editing our work in our English books, we published […]

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

by | 1 Jan 2025 | History

In History, we have been learning about the Transatlantic Slave Triangle. The children role played a British, An American and an African Slave trader. They were given various discussion points during the activity.

Super Smoothie Shop

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Kingfishers, Maths

The children in Kingfishers Class took part in a money sense workshop provided by NatWest. The workshop was called Super Smoothie Shop. The children were shown slides to get them thinking about: what money is, where we get it, how we can spend it and what a ‘business’ is. The children worked in groups to […]

Why do we remember Mary Anning?

by | 1 Jan 2025 | History, Kingfishers

This half term i History the children in Kingfishers Class will be focusing on the question – How was Mary Anning’s trip to the beach the start of a ‘new beginning’? The children thought about the enquiry question – Why do we remember Mary Anning? The children were shown a picture of Mary Anning and […]

Dinosaurs

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Curriculum, Kingfishers

The children in Kingfishers Class were very surprised when they found the window open, some dinosaur footprints on the table and a nest full of eggs. The children became explorers and thought about the evidence they had found and came to the conclusion a dinosaur had been in the classroom. The children completed a prediction […]

Cooking and Nutrition: Smoothies

by | 1 Jan 2025 | Design Technology, Kingfishers

The children began focusing on Cooking and Nutrition: Smoothies. The children thought about the question – Can we identify fruits? Miss Jones showed the children pictures of food and the children were asked to identify them. The children were invited to answer the question – What is food? Miss Jones told the children she was […]

Science – Plants

by | 12 Dec 2024 | Science, Woodpeckers

This term in Science we explored plants and how they are similar to humans! The children worked extremely hard learning lots of new vocabulary and their meaning. We also conducted an experiment which the children observed over time; they placed carnations and lettuce into test tubes and beakers containing different food colouring and watched to […]