The children in Year 2 have been learning about division. To find out about remainders, they had lots of fun playing a game called grab and divide! The children had to grab a handful of counters and check to see if they were equally divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 5. If they were, they scored a point and i
Nobody was expecting the fantastic surprise we all got this morning – SNOW! As soon as the first few flakes began to gracefully fall from the sky, the excitement built until the children saw that a thin blanket was lying on our school grounds. The big question from the children inevitably was �
This week the children are beginning to learn how to make paint ready for cave painting. In class we discussed what kind of materials would have been used in the Stone Age, what kind of tools may be needed to release pigments and then how the paintbrushes themselves might be constructed. Outside a f
The children have been using different media to create self portraits this week. They looked at a variety of portraits by different artists and talked about the ones that they liked. They then had a go at making their own portrait using paints, loose materials and pens. The children then made
In our Maths lessons this half term, we have been looking at different methods of multiplication, including 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication, which can sometimes be a bit tricky! To help us work out what we need to do and why, we have used counters and base 10 (as well as quite a lot of post it not
Continuing to work on developing their communication skills, Year 6 took part in a game of Snake this week. Snake is a trust based, team building game that focuses on non-verbal communication. The team must stand in single file, one behind the other and rest their hands on the shoulders of the perso
This half term, our topic in Reception is Journeys. We began our topic by reading a story called ‘The Train Ride’. The children really enjoyed the story and worked hard on creating their own places to visit on the train. The children thought carefully about where they would visit, and used lots of d
The children in Year 3 have had a special visit from Doctor Jo who taught them all about what life was like in the Stone Age. The boys and girls tried some cave painting and played a hunter, gatherer game. They looked at artefacts from the stone age period and had lots of questions for Doctor Jo. Th
In science the children have been learning all about materials. They went on a hunt to find as many different materials as they could.
A new term means a new story. The children had to play a memory game. They had one minute to remember as many items as they could. Each item was a clue to the story. Can you work out what our story is?
