Year 2 took part in a big Forest school, tidy up today, in readiness for the gardeners to come in and cut the grass over the holidays. This is such an important element to our Forest School ethos, enabling the children to take responsibility for their environment and to begin to understand how our u
Year 3 spent an incredibly busy afternoon in our Forest School construction area. Working in teams of their own choice, the children were encouraged not to rush but rather to take some time to peruse the resources. This may give them some inspiration so they could make a plan and perhaps choose a th
Year 6 spent a clear and sunny afternoon in our Forest School. It was lovely to see how quickly the children settled back into the environment and they created some interesting builds. They were delighted to be outside with their friends and produced some really interesting work.
It has been lovely to see the children both at home and school enjoying lots of fun activities with a focus on well being this week. After such a busy half term of learning it was great to be able to embrace this themed week and get in a relaxed frame of mind ready for half term. The arrival of
Like you all, I have watched this evening’s announcement from the Prime Minister which has confirmed we are once again in lockdown. As a consequence of this, you will understand that schools must now revert back to the situation in the spring where we are only able to accommodate children of Key W
During their PSHE sessions Year 3 have been learning about friendships and how the art of co-operation and negotiation can make communication more positive. Understanding compromise can be a tricky concept to grasp, so practical sessions that link to this kind of theme are really important so we can
Mr Hollingworth’s class; Home learning should be completed in your red exercise book. The home learning activities for Reading Plus, Times Table Rockstars, MyMaths and in the CGP books should be set up to allow the children to completed these largely independently. English work is largely writing b
Taking our love of adjectives out into the woodland made for an exciting afternoon. Working in pairs, the children were given a collecting bag, a pencil and a sheet of adjectives. Their challenge match the descriptive words to plants or objects. If they found any additional objects that they could d
Year 5 were given a piece of descriptive writing that was based on an Indian folk tale, however, Miss Rowe converted the story to reflect our North-Eastern weather. The original tale inspired the Chipko Movement, whose members embrace trees to prevent the destruction of forests. The word Chipko mean
Year 2 went exploring for colours and textures in our Forest School. Working in pairs, the children were given a collecting bag, a pencil and a sheet of adjectives. Their challenge was to collect as many examples of objects, that matched the descriptive words, as they could. If they found any additi
