Curriculum

12Oct2020

This half term, the children have been using their body parts to compose music. They explored different parts of their bodies to find out which created the best sound. The children used their hands, shoulders, feet and knees to create a sequence of body percussion. The aim of the unit was to create

9Oct2020

This week in Maths, the boys and girls have been learning about position and direction. They began by using vocabulary such as forwards, backwards, left and right. They then progressed on to describing turns using clockwise and anticlockwise. To put their new skills to the test, they were challenged

9Oct2020

Year one have been learning all about colours this week in art.  Firstly they learnt that red, yellow and blue are primary colours and they coloured in and labelled a colour wheel.  Next, the children enjoyed investigating what happens when you paint with primary colours.  They used the rim of a

9Oct2020

Year 6 have been working extremely hard with their writing over the last week. They have been focussing on expanding noun phrases, using colons to explain and correctly punctuating speech. They have been reading the book Friend or Foe and predicted what might happen when one of the boys, David, was

8Oct2020

In Maths over the last two weeks we have been exploring formal methods for adding and subtracting.  We always start with counters, so we can see where we have to carry numbers or exchange.  Using ‘concrete’ materials helps the children visualise the calculation, before we move onto doing them with

8Oct2020

In maths, the children have been learning how to count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10. They have been finding the total of an amount, completing number lines and solving problems. Year Two had to put their knowledge to the test in a competitive game of Snakes and Ladders. However, the tricky part was t