As Christmas seems to be getting ever nearer (and I’ve been told I’m the Grinch as I don’t have my Christmas tree up yet), this week’s Reading Corner looks at a couple of new Christmas books available this year. In the ever-increasing technological world that we live in, it is lovely to hear some of
Children have been completing new Star Reader tests in Accelerated Reader, which gives them a new level and can give access to new books. It has been excellent to see the care with which the children have approached these online quizzes and the excellent progress that many of the children have made.
In Geography this half term, we reviewed some of our previous learning about compass points and continents then looked at the 5 key lines of latitude that spread out from the Equator. Narrowing our view of the world down, we focused on Europe, looking at the countries within the continent of Europ
Year 6 have had great fun over the last two weeks in their Geography block. They have been introduced to a number of new skills – linked to their Peace Keepers topic. They started off with some cartography (looking at maps) to locate the position of cities, towns and counties in the UK. After this t
A wet and woolly day for Year 1. They are enjoying learning about construction in nature, how animals keep themselves safe, what materials they might need, what shapes we might see. Thinking about animals and birds that nest, they searched in the woodland for twigs and leaves to create nests of thei
Today we were lucky enough to have visitors from Costain who came in to talk to the children about the ongoing improvements being made to the A1 and how it has impacted on wildlife. Our visitors were called Mark and Emma and first of all they talked about the importance of roads and what we use them
In their Forest School session Reception children were learning about the way that different animals behave as the seasons change. Squirrels hiding their nuts to ensure food through the winter and which animals might hibernate. What would you want if you were spending the winter asleep? Shelter from
For the past two weeks in Maths, Year Six have been learning about fractions. To begin with, the children realised that they needed to use their knowledge of multiples and factors in order to find equivalent fractions and simplify fractions. Adding and subtracting fractions was the next learning w
To mark Armistice Day this year, the children have had class assemblies about Remembrance and the children in years 3, 4, 5 and 6 watched a live assembly via zoom held by the literacy trust in partnership with The British Legion . Every child in school, has also created their own poppy made from a p
This week, we were very lucky to have some parents in school for our Maths workshop. The workshop focused on activities the children can complete at home to help develop their mathematical knowledge. These included times table bingo, number bond pairs and finding doubles using playing cards. The chi
