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
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
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 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
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
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
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...
Champion Gymnasts in KS1!
KS1 have been learning about how to be a champion gymnast this half term. They have stepped up to the challenge showing many different ways to travel and balance using their big and small body parts. Article 13: You have the right to find...
Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall
This half term we have been learning about everyday materials in science. Our investigation was to decide which material would be best at protecting Humpty Dumpty. Investigation focus: comparative test Before the investigation we explored different materials and...
UKS2 Music
IMG_9695 IMG_9698 IMG_9699 The children have been learning how to use body percussion during our music lessons. They have listened, practiced and performed two classical music pieces called 'The Nutcracker' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King'. The children...
A super Space party in nursery!
To conclude our Space topic we consolidated our knowledge of it by having a Space party. We prepared for our party throughout the week. We prepared by designing a placemat to put our party food on. We drew space themed things like rockets, The International Space...
Acts of Kindness in PSHE
Using the 'MELVA' programme, Tulips, Snowdrops and Bluebells have been doing a sequence of PSHE lessons all linked to mental health and wellbeing. They have visited some of the characters who live in Scratchicle Town - people who give great advice on how to take...