The year 2 boys showing off our quality compost. The Composters may not be pretty, but designed and built by some of our Year 6’s, they are proving to be very successful. Lined with black plastic to help generate heat, the compost is rotated to ensure waste is fully decomposed. Composter 2 is now
This week, Year 2 have been learning about 3D shapes. After a week of leaning about the properties and language of these shapes, the children enjoyed using a venn diagram to sort some shapes and discussing what the criteria could be. It was wonderful to see the pupils using correct mathematical term
In Year one we were set the challenge of creating a bag that was environmentally friendly and reusable. We decided to use canvas bags and designed and printed a pattern on the front using primary colours. We are so proud of the results and we can’t wait to use them.
In English this week, we began our new book: I AM HENRY FINCH. We read the first few pages which talks about how noisy it is being a finch. The fist time we read the story we had lots of ‘background noise’ so we understood how the finches felt (it was far too noisy to think!). One day Henry Finch wa
Year 3 created a ‘Winter Wonderland’ in their Christmas tree challenge. Meanwhile a rock band took over the stage on the drums and some of the boys sorted our new den building material.
This week Year One had to use picture clues of a brick, wheelbarrow, a hard hat and a trowel to work out the title of their new book for English lessons – “Let’s Build a House”. Then they had to follow instructions to build their own house.
Over the last week, schools have been receiving reports of an increasing number of incidents involving inappropriate pop-ups occurring when children are accessing the internet outside of school. This has been happening across the region but there have been isolated incidents involving pupils of Ha
Learning how to behave safely around the fire pit is really important for our young children, getting them ready for their Forest School sessions. We practiced how to enter and exit the fire area and had a chat about what kind of things they might like to cook. Then it was down to meet the hens, the
To launch their new English novel, the boys in girls in Year 3 have worked in groups to construct their own version of The Iron Man. The children have not read the story so they used clues from pictures and the text to predict what he looked like. They worked really hard to create their models whi
As the chocolate eggs in shops will be an indication of, we are now in the run-up to Easter. Today, Reverend Mark came into school to talk to the children about the religious lead up to this special time of year for Christians. Through Reverend Mark’s assembly, the children learned about Shrove Tu
