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Ice investigations in nursery

Ice investigations in nursery

As well as continuing to find out more about Spring, we have been investigating ice this week to participate in Science Week. We completed two different investigations. We compared the look of ice made with water, salt and water, food colouring and water and lemonade....

Science Week in LKS2!

Science Week in LKS2!

This week has been Science Week and this years theme has been Change and Adapt. We have been lucky enough to watch multiple live lessons and also conducted an investigation around ice. We were observing over time what happens to an ice cube in different containers and...

Year 5/6 Homework 14.3.25

Year 5/6 Homework 14.3.25

Year 5 and 6 homework this week will be in CGP books. Year 5 Y5 Oaks – Maths- p.12-13 – Written addition and subtraction Y5 Oaks – English- p.30  – Present tense and past tense and p.31 - Verbs with 'ing' and p.32 - The present perfect 1x arithmetic paper...

Elms Homework 14.3.25

Elms Homework 14.3.25

This week's homework is as follows: Maths: p 34 & 35 English: p 40 & 41 All pupils are asked to read at home daily and complete their 5 texts on Reading Plus by Thursday each week. Homework is due on Thursday 20th March.

Science Week in KS1

Science Week in KS1

This week has been Science Week and this years theme has been Change and Adapt. We have been lucky enough to watch multiple live lessons and also conducted an investigation around ice. We were comparing which material would help melt an ice cube faster. Children were...

Shrove Tuesday and much more!

Shrove Tuesday and much more!

This week we have introduced our new topics for this half term which are Spring and baby animals/mammals. We played a mother and baby animal matching game on the interactive white board and shared some topic based stories during snack time. We are looking forward to...

World Book Day Celebrations

World Book Day Celebrations

Windy Nook celebrated a fun-packed World Book Day last Thursday, with the entire school taking part in a wide range of activities to cheer-on everything reading. All children received free books thanks to Mr. Atkinson from WHSmith, who kindly supplied these for us. In...

Classifying in Year 5 and 6

Classifying in Year 5 and 6

This week, Elms, Oaks and Beeches have started their new unit of science, which is all about the classification of living things. The pictures show the children sorting animals into their classes according to whether they are mammals, reptiles, fish and so on. We...

Year 5/6 Homework 7.3.25

Year 5/6 Homework 7.3.25

Year 5 and 6 homework this week will be in CGP books. Year 5 Y5 Oaks – Maths- p.8 - Ordering and Comparing Big Numbers and p.9 - Counting in Powers of 10 Y5 Oaks – English- p.24-25  – Prepositions 1x arithmetic paper on https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5 Reading- 2 x...

Elms Homework 7.3.25

Elms Homework 7.3.25

This week's homework is as follows: Maths - p 60 &61 English - p 88 & 89 Homework is due in Thursday 13th March. Any children who have not completed homework will be sent to homework club. Reading Plus - ensure all 5 texts (at least) are completed by...

Science with the Beeches

Science with the Beeches

This week in science, Beeches have been learning about classifying animals.  First they looked at vertebrates and invertebrates before grouping animals into further groups such as: Molluscs, Reptiles, Mammals and Echinoderms. Article 13: You have the right to find out...

King of the Castle

King of the Castle

KS1 rounded off their 'King of the Castle' topic with a DT project. Their brief was to design a castle strong enough to protect the king! The first part of the process was to research different types of castles and identify the features found on both stone castles and...