School Policies/Useful Documents
Fantastic Fruit Salads!
This term the children in Owls and Robins have been researching, designing, creating and evaluating fruit salads for DT. We began our topic by discussing what we already knew about fruit salads and whether or not we had eaten one before. We researched different types...
Wandering Woodlice
Owls and Robins carried out this half term's science investigation to see if we could determine what type of conditions woodlice prefer. We created our own box habitats which were separated into four different areas: Light and dry Light and damp Dark and dry Dark and...
Elms Home Learning 29.6.21
Morning Elms, You will find all your tasks for today on Google Classroom (some involve links to conquer maths and purple mash). Our live calls will be at 9:30 (English) and 11:00 (Maths). I will put the link on google classroom at those times. The list below will...
Beeches Get to Grips with Excel Formulas
This afternoon, Beeches class developed our Excel skills to be able to write the formulas for spreadsheet to enable them to add, subtract multiply and divide. We learnt how to apply the formula to several cells and tested ourselves by seeing if we could beat 'The...
Elms Home Learning 28.6.21
Morning Elms, You will find all your tasks for today on Google Classroom (some involve links to conquer maths and purple mash). Our live calls will be at 9:30 (English) and 11:00 (Maths). I will put the link on google classroom at those times. The list below will...
Updates to school procedures – June 2021
Updates to school procedures – June 2021 Sports Day We were hoping to be able to invite parents to our annual Sports’ day, however, due to the continuing restrictions, we are now unable to do this. Sports’ Day will still happen for the children just without spectators...
Bees Gardening Club Donations!
South Dene Nursery in Low Fell have very kindly donated lots of plants to the Bees Gardening Club. The Bees have been very busy over the last few weeks digging and planting. They are also growing leeks and potatoes. The children love watching them grow! Thank you too...
Visit to Windy Nook Nature Park and St Alban’s Church
This week the Bees visited Windy Nook Nature Park and St Alban's Church. We are learning about our local area and the children identified geographical features. At the church Reverend Danie gave us a warm welcome and told the children about features in a Christian...
Ice cream galore!
This week we have based our learning around ice cream. We enjoyed the story of Keith the Cat and his Magic Hat and some us designed an ice cream on the computer and then made a collage of it (we will be continuing this next week). We practised some number recognition...
Closure of Elms class (return to school Friday 2nd July 2021)
25/6/21 Dear Parent, Advice for Child to Self-Isolate for 10 Days We have been advised that there has been a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the school. We have identified that your child has been in close contact with the affected case. In line with the national...
Snowdrops are Excelling!
Using Microsoft Excel, the children of Snowdrops have been learning how to input formulae when using spreadsheets. The class has worked superbly to use the correct format for each formula: put that equals sign first! They were able to construct times tables - using...
Investigating 3D shapes
Today in Beeches we have been using the multi-link cubes to investigate 3D shapes and how they link with nets of 3D shapes. We looked at pictures of plan, or bird’s-eye views, make it difficult to know whether there are cubes below those that we are able to see....
Elms look for Pond Life!
This afternoon, the Elms class visited our school pond. They were fascinated by the invertebrates they found, including pond snails and water lice. They also enjoyed the opportunity to make the most of their time outdoors, sketching what they could see in their...
Retelling a story in the Elms
This term, the Elms have been reading 'Journey to Jo'burg' and have been learning about the history of South Africa. The children were put in groups and were able to choose a chapter to re-enact in front of the class. We talked about making sure to develop the...
Gardening club!
Some children from the Elms have had a great time getting stuck into some gardening around school this week. We have been clearing out some of the beds to give the flowers and plants some more space to grow and flourish! Article 15: You have the right to choose...
Beeches Visit the Revamped School Pond
This afternoon, Beeches were lucky enough to be the first class to visit the newly revamped school pond. We worked in small groups, pond-dipping to see if we could find any life in the pond. Although we only managed to find one worm, we really enjoyed the opportunity...
Basketball skills in Nightingales
This term in PE, Nightingales have been improving their basketball skills. The last 2 weeks, the children have practiced chest passes, bounce passes and dribbling the ball. Article 24: You have the right to the best health care possible, safe water to drink,...
We’re football crazy in the Dragonflies!
Our first Football skills club was a great success. We started by "walking the dog" where the children learned how to move the ball around the room, keeping the ball close and in control at all times. We then moved on to "juggling the ball" between two feet, and we...
Were The Vikings All Bad?
This week, children in Bluebells, Snowdrops and Tulips have been conducting an enquiry into history. They investigated this question: were the Vikings all bad? Each class studied sources of evidence - both primary and secondary - to help them come to a conclusion. The...
Leaf prints
This week, we have continued our camping/outdoors theme. We pretended that our maths area was a camp fire and used a frying pan and some fake sausages to help us learn the song, Ten Fat Sausages Sizzling in a Pan. We did some fantastic counting while making the...
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