What an exciting day we all had on World Book Day again this year! Our wonderful local author – Lucy Plunkett – came in to read her story with every class throughout school. Dexter is a school dog who has a natural way of helping children through the school day with things like: the first … Read more
On Thursday this week, we were lucky enough to have some of our pupils who celebrate Ramadan and Eid share about their traditions during assemblies for both Key Stages. The children spoke beautifully, and many of their families were kind enough to send photos in so that we could see some of the food, decorations, … Read more
It’s been an exciting week of Science in school this week. Science Club set up an investigation to see how food changes over time. Everyone was able to visit the display over the week to see what happened. We found that some foods went hard while others went soft. Some went mouldy although the whole … Read more
As part of our unit on Animals, we were observing worms today in Maple Class. We learnt that worms have hydrostatic skeletons, which means that fluid gives them structure. Worms move by squeezing their muscles so that they become long and thin. Then, they have tiny hairs which help to pull them through the soil.
The Year 3 Science Club has been busy with a range of activities and investigations. We investigated chromatography in sweets by separating out the colours in the coating of different types of sweets. We explored forces and aerodynamics by testing different types of paper plane and paper helicopters to see how they flew and which … Read more
Year 3 had a fantastic World Book Day with lots of creative costumes, a lovely visit from local author Lucy Plunkett, and a chance to read with parents, carers and friends!
What a fantastic day Year One had celebrating World Book Day! We were so impressed with all the creative costumes and interesting books the children bought in today. This morning we all met Lucy Plunkett the author of ‘Dexter! The Amazing School Dog!’ who read us her brilliant book. To end the day, it was … Read more
Oak and Ash thoroughly enjoyed their visit from local author Lucy Plunkett. After listening to the story, all the children had an opportunity to colour in a picture of Dexter the School Dog and talk about the story with their teachers. We loved talking about the characters the children had dressed up as throughout the … Read more
Today Year One headed off to the Shuttleworth Collection to support our work on Pioneers of Flight as part of the History curriculum. We spent the morning doing a range of interesting activities. We experienced what it was like to sit inside an old passenger plane with nowhere for luggage and no toilet! The children … Read more
Today during Topic we learnt all about St David’s Day and how it is celebrated. During Discover & Do the children had the opportunity to extend their learning by colouring pictures of the Welsh dragon, labelling parts of a daffodil and, creating daffodils out of paper and straws and using watercolours to paint daffodils from … Read more
