Terrific Transition in Early Years!
Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed their transition sessions in their new classrooms over the last two days. Mrs Ramanandi and Miss Burns were very complementary about the children and referred to them as delightful which has made the nursery staff very proud indeed! The...
Symmetry!
This week, the children in Ladybirds and Dragonflies have been learning about symmetry and looking at symmetry in nature in particular butterflies. The children enjoyed doubling, creating patterns and showing symmetry using paint. Article 28: You have the right to a...
Beach treasure!
Following on from our story called Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab, we have focused on beaches this week as Tiny Crab lived at the beach in the story. We looked at and discussed a variety of items that were found on the beach like; seaweed, crabs, starfish, drift wood,...
The sun has got his hat on!
We have continued to focus on the story Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab. We know the story really well know and we have participated in some super acting of it. We finished drawing fantastic pictures of the characters and items from the story and they look brilliant on our...
Counting in 2’s!
This week, Reception children have been learning how to count in 2's, and thinking of reasons why we would need to count in 2's. We looked at pairing socks and wellies together and worked out how many pairs before counting how many individual. The children became...
KS1 Visit St Alban’s
KS1 have been learning about Christian churches and their role in the community. Today we visited St Alban's church. Reverend Danie told us all about her job and the children learned about the parts of the church. They sang and danced and some of the children even...
Magnificent Measuring in Bees
The Bees have been learning how to measure accurately. They know this is very important because they might want to be joiners, tailors or builders when they are older. They practised measuring objects in the classroom and in the playground before being given a...
All about the snails!
It has been all about snails this week in Reception! The children have enjoyed learning facts about snails, digging for them as well as incorporating snails into our writing and maths sessions. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...
Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab
This week in nursery we have focussed on the story, Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab. The story is about a crab who lives on a beach and it explores how he feels when his friends visit and don't tidy up after themselves. This follows on from our science week and caring for...
Football Frenzy!
As part of this term's PE, Years 3 and 4 have kicked off their football lessons. The children worked on ball control and dribbling skills. Each class was coached in walking and running with the ball at their feet, plus dribbling past defenders and looking for space....
LKS2 Quad Kids
Yesterday, 20 children from years 3 and 4 participated in a quad kids athletics event. All children participated in four events: the 50m sprint, howler throw, 400m run and the standing long jump. One of our teams came 5th out of 21 teams. The children showed fantastic...
Science Week in Early Years
We have had a super week being scientists and thinking about how to look after our planet this week. We examined our mini wormeries daily using magnifying glasses to see if the worms had made any tunnels or ate any food. On Friday when we looked at our wormeries for...