Curriculum

Immersion Session – Toys

by | 1 Jan 2026 | History, Kingfishers

Kingfishers Class began exploring their new topics for this half term. The children received a parcel. Miss Jones opened it and read the letter. The children were asked to work together to complete a puzzle. The children worked as a team and completed the puzzle and discussed what they could see in the picture. The […]

Year 6 have been sewing Christmas tree decorations

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Design Technology, Swans

We have been using our sewing skills to make a Christmas tree decoration – it’s not as easy as you think but they have done a sterling job and it has been lovely to watch the children support each other with this challenging task!

Dissecting an egg

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Owls, Science

As part of our topic on Living Things and Habitats, Owls class were looking at the life cycle of birds. We dissected an egg. We studied the outside of the egg with a magnifying glass. Then we carefully cracked open the egg to identify all the parts inside. We used cocktail sticks to separate the […]

Art – 3D Sculpture

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Art & Design, Woodpeckers

Woodpeckers have been busy this term creating 3D sculptures; here are their final pieces!  

PE – Gymnastics

by | 12 Dec 2025 | PE, Woodpeckers

Take a look at some of our fantastic balances!    

Geography

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Environment, Geography, Visitors, Woodpeckers

We had a wonderful workshop delivered by Harper’s mum this week; linking in with our geography topic. Does the River always meet the Sea? We learnt lots about the causes of flooding and the dangers flooding can pose.

Embedding the vocabulary of ‘migration’.

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Geography, Swans

The Swans are coming to the end of their topic on migration. In order to embed the meaning of some of the terminology, we played ‘Headbandz’! Headbandz’!

Christingles!

by | 12 Dec 2025 | Parents, Religious Education, Woodpeckers

Thank you to all the family members who made it to our sharing session today. We made Christingle’s because it linked nicely to our RE topic this half term; Christianity. The Christingle is used in churches as each element represents an idea symbolic to Christian beliefs. The orange represents the world, the red ribbon is […]

Tasting Pomegranates in Year 6

by | 11 Nov 2025 | English, Swans

In English we have been reading the novel: ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ which is about a Syrian refugee child who comes to the UK.  One of his school mates, wants to try and make him feel at home so asks his mum if she can buy him a pomegranate as this […]

Publishing

by | 11 Nov 2025 | English, Science, Woodpeckers

Over the last half term, Woodpeckers have been learning about rocks in science. We have looked at the three types of rocks; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. We found out how each rock is formed and looked at examples of each rock. In English, we have learnt about headings and subheadings, adverbials, adjectives, expanded noun phrases, […]

Remembrance Day art Year 6

by | 11 Nov 2025 | Art & Design, Swans

We drew eyes and reflected our thanks to all the soldiers who fought in the war.

Dissecting Flowers

by | 11 Nov 2025 | Owls, Science

Today, in Science, the Owls learned about how flowering plants reproduce sexually. We dissected flowers and studied them under magnifying glasses to identify all the different parts.