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Investigating fruit and vegetables
Over the last two weeks, Reception have been focusing on the stories 'Oliver's Vegetables' and 'Oliver's Fruit Salad' by Vivian French. The children have explored where fruit and vegetables come from and why we need to eat fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy...
Snowdrops’ Homework 13.5.22
Hello Snowdrops, I’ve set new spelling tasks and games on Spelling Shed. You have to spell words with the 'ous' suffix e.g. famous. Remember to search https://play.edshed.com and then type your username and password. For maths, please practise your times tables...
Year 5 Homework (13.5.22)
This week our homework is as follows (13.5.22). Reading Plus – Complete two texts (can be written in reading diary) CGP Maths book- Multiplication and division pages 25-26 Spelling practice sheet- Look, cover, write and check activity CGP Books English-Commas after...
On the hunt!
The children in KS1 have been learning about animal habitats this half term and as part of this, we went on a minibeast hunt around the school grounds. We used a checklist and recorded the minibeasts that we saw. We also looked at the location of the minibeasts. Was...
Checkmates!
Windy Nook Chess Club got off to a super start this week. There was a lovely atmosphere as everyone enjoyed playing. We talked about how different pieces can move, making good decisions and which pieces are most valuable! For a first week, we built in lots of game...
Green Fingers! Our first week of Gardening club
Monday night was our first week of Gardening club and the KS1 children had so much fun! We worked together to prepare the soil, before planting and watering a variety of plants around the Chicken Coop - a memorial dedicated to Mrs Greaves. We would also like to thanks...
Making Music in Computing
Today Nightingales have been learning how to create music using a Purple Mash programme. They explored different ways to make music using a variety of instruments. They learned to speed up and slow down the sounds and created fantastic tunes. It sounded like an...
Not a Stick!
This week and next week our focus story is, Not a Stick. This week we have used our imaginations to pretend that a stick is is not a stick and that it is an object, which is what happens in the story. Some of us created a picture based around this idea and attached a...
Learning About Food Hunger
The children of Tulips, Snowdrops and Bluebells have been learning about hunger in the world. We learned that 810 million people on Earth are malnourished and that much of the world's food goes to waste. Our discussion then moved on to how we can harvest more food and...
Super Scratch Coding in UKS2
This term in computing, UKS2 are looking at how to develop games using coding on Scratch. To start with, the children added their own sprite and background and then inputted some simple code to make the sprite hide and disappear. They then looked at how to add a...
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