Spreadsheets in UKS2

by Miss Smith | May 12, 2025 | Beeches, Elms, News, Oaks

This term, children in UKS2 have been learning about handling data and using spreadsheets. They have looked at what data is and how it can be gathered and presented in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Children then gathered their own data in groups and learnt how to...

Learning About Muslim New Year in UKS2

by Miss Smith | May 12, 2025 | Beeches, Elms, News, Oaks

This term, children in Year 5 and 6 have been learning about Islam in RE. This week, they focused on Al-Hijra which is the Muslim New Year. Al-Hijra, the Islamic New Year, is the first day of the month of Muharram. It marks the Hijra (or Hegira) in 622 CE when...

Data Collecting in The Reception Classes

by Mrs Ramanandi | May 11, 2025 | Dragonflies, Ladybirds, Maths, News

The children have loved learning about pictograms and tally charts. They have spent the week busily finding out their friend’s favourite things and tallying them up to find out their most popular and the least popular. They have used pictograms to find out favourite...

Owls and Robins line up!

by Mr McKay | May 10, 2025 | Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Owls, Robins

This week Owls and Robins have been manipulating numbers up to 100. They have been using Base 10 to partition 2 digit numbers and they have also been exploring number lines. Everyone was fantastic at estimating where their number would go on the number line. Well...

Another busy week in nursery!

by Amanda Clough | May 9, 2025 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning, Science

This week we have continued to find out about worms and composting. We shared a non-fiction book about worms and we have learned that worms do not have eyes or teeth, they produce slime to help them move around in earth and they do not have a skeleton! We also found...

Welcome new friends in nursery!

by Amanda Clough | May 6, 2025 | Butterflies and Caterpillars, English, Health and Well-Being, Maths, News, Outdoor Learning

We have had a lovely first week back after Easter. We welcomed three new friends who have settled into nursery life amazingly well. This half term we are focusing on composting and worms. We read the story, A Worm called Wallace this week which is a fictional story...