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Performance Poetry in UKS2

Performance Poetry in UKS2

Last week, children in years 5 and 6 looked at war poetry with a particular focus on 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae. They explored the imagery used within the poem and how it was structured, later using this as inspiration to write their own World War 1 themed...

Cauliflower Cards and much more!

Cauliflower Cards and much more!

This week in nursery we created a Christmas card by making a hand print Santa Clause. Our beautiful artwork will be sent to a company called Cauliflower Cards who will produce our cards which will be available to buy in the near future. We have made our own play dough...

Amazing adjectives in Year 1!

Amazing adjectives in Year 1!

In Year 1, the children have been reading the traditional tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. This week, we looked at the character Jack. We thought about how we could describe Jack, using adjectives for his appearance and his personality. We wrote our adjectives on post...

Kind Hands in Nursery

Kind Hands in Nursery

We have continued to focus on following our nursery routine and getting to know each other this week. We read the story, Picasso's Trousers and talked about how we are all artists like Picasso. We have now all completed self portrait paintings which look fantastic...

Phonics Meeting for Reception Parents

Phonics Meeting for Reception Parents

Further to the Reception class parent reading meeting in school this week, please find attached information about phonics and reading information. You can download the presentation as a PDF, where there are QR codes signposting you to different areas of support from...

New Beginnings in Nursery

New Beginnings in Nursery

A warm welcome to our new friends in nursery and also our children who attended nursery last term. Our existing children have welcomed their new friends with kindness and some friendships are already beginning to form. We are focussing on following the nursery routine...

Windy Winners!

Windy Winners!

This week our awards were for Top Writer and Top Growth Mindset. Well done to all of our winners. Class  Top Growth Mindset  Top Writer        Robins  Thea  Amaris    Owls  Ariadne  Lucas     Nightingales  Harry  Joel     Bluebells  Heidi   Hamed    Tulips  Alfie ...

Teddy Bear’s Picnic

Teddy Bear’s Picnic

Today, we hosted a Teddy Bear's Picnic, through the week we wrote invitations for our teddies to come to Festival day and join us for a picnic. We also read the story 'This is the Bear and the Picnic Lunch' by Sarah Hayes. Just as in the story, the rain came but it...

Games, art, 90s and much more!

Games, art, 90s and much more!

This week in nursery we have continued to focus on beaches and Summer. We read the story, Bluey, The Beach and discussed words like; scuttle and pipi. We used the internet to find out what they mean and we watched a video of a crab scuttling and then we pretended to...

Beach treasure!

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!

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...

Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab

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...