Archive 2020-21

Year 6 have been enjoying some ‘Rob’s Kitchen’ music during assembly times. A particular favourite, are the ‘Cup’ challenges which focus on rhythm and following a beat. Click on the video links below to see the children enjoying themselves trying to keep up – especially in Challenge 2! Challenge 1

It is a statutory requirement for all primary schools to have a Relationships & Health Education Policy detailing the supportive provision within each year group.  The process of implementation has been interrupted by the pandemic over the last year and a half, but we have a finalised our polic

We have been looking at growing this week and together we have read the story ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’. Following on from the story we have explored different beans: kidney beans, black-eyed beans, cannelli beans, and runner beans. We have sorted them by size, colour and type. The children wanted

This term in Year 2, we are reading Where the Wild Things Are in English. We will be basing lots of our English lessons based on this story. At the beginning of the week, the children didn’t know what our text was going to be so we created masks of one of the characters. Based on their masks, lots o

In Year 2, we have been extremely lucky this week to have an additional PE session led by Mr McMann! The children participated in 8 different activities challenging them in lots of different ways! The first activity required the children to complete a two footed jump into hoops laid across the field

We have been working on data and statistics in maths this week, looking at different ways data can be presented, recorded and then interpreted.  We also squeezed in a conversation about protecting our data and being careful about what we share. In Maths we started with pie charts, bar charts and tw

This week Reception have been learning all about different minibeasts as part of our topic for this half term ‘Explorers Outdoors’. We started the week introducing a variety of minibeasts  and read the story ‘Mad About Minibeasts’. The children wrote a list of sentence clues in literacy for someone

This week Year One were introduced to their new English text. It’s a non-fiction book called ‘Let’s Build a House’. We launched this new book by firstly going outside, taking full advantage of the sunny weather, and they used natural materials to build a house. The children had to include walls, a r

In Science, Year 3 have begun learning about magnets and their magnetic fields. This week, they have carried out two investigations. During the first, they tested a range of materials to find out which were magnetic and which were non-magnetic. The next day, they used different types of magnets and

This week, Year 6 have started to do some Geography work based upon Pompeii and the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. They enjoyed researching what causes volcanic eruptions and then used an atlas to locate volcanoes around the world. We then began to focus on Pompeii and what it was like prior to the e