Spreadsheets in UKS2
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
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
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!
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...
Oh how our garden grows!
This half term children in Reception have been exploring fruits and vegetables. We have looked at the difference between fruit and vegetables while reading the books Oliver's Vegetables and Oliver's Fruit Salad. We discovered that fruit grows above the ground in...
Another busy week in nursery!
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...
Perfect Pop Art!
This week, Lower Key Stage 2 have been using a printing technique for their Pop-Art portraits. The children drew around the outlines of a portrait photograph - something regularly done in the Pop-Art movement - and then traced these outlines to create a new portrait....
What is your favourite……
This week in Reception we have learnt all about how we can collect data. We were introduced to pictograms and tally charts and learnt what they are used for, how they are different and how to use them. We had loads of fun finding out what our favourite fruit, food,...
Year 5/6 Homework 9.5.25
Year 5 Y5 Oaks – Maths- 2x Conquer Maths Tasks on Addition and Subtraction of Fractions with Different Denominators (Please make sure you do Y5 homework only.) Y5 Oaks – English- p.94 and 95 – Homophones 1x arithmetic paper on https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5...
Elms Homework 9.5.25
Elms Homework this week is as follows: CGP books Maths - p20 & 21 English - p50 & 51 All 5 Reading Plus texts are to be completed by Thursday 15th May
Welcome new friends in nursery!
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...
We met Miss Byrne’s Babies!
The children were so excited when Miss Byrne came to visit with her newborn babies. They sat very quietly when Miss Byrne introduced the children to baby Ruby and baby Zara. The children asked lots of insightful questions to help them understand babies, how they grow...