The 5/6 Classes had a fantastic day learning all about Road Safety during Feeling Good Week. We had guest speakers who gave us some hands-on experience, showed us films and led discussions – the children discovered just how dangerous it is to use their mobile phones near roads. Both classess then produced some posters to warn other … Read more
Class 3 planned, made and evaluated healthy sandwiches – and got to eat them too! They began by thinking about what a healthy well-balanced diet should include and the different food groups. The Class then focused on transferring this knowledge to tasting and assessing different breads and fillings before planning and making some very tasty … Read more
Well done everyone, a great half term with lots of new things learnt and now we are all ready for a break to get rid of colds and coughs and renew our energy for the weeks leading up to Easter. It was a week with two celebrations which kept us busy. It was Chinese New … Read more
We have had great fun investigating electrical circuits and working out where wires, bulbs and batteries need to go in order to make a bulb light up. It was quite tricky putting the equipment together but we found out that a circuit needs to be complete in order to make an appliance work. In another … Read more
The fiercely contested Annual Pancake Race was run on Shrove Tuesday. Runners from each house and each year group competed for the glory of coming first! The whole school descended onto the bottom playground to watch this annual event. 4 year 3 boys were the first to run and as Mrs Driver started the race … Read more
Looking at toys old and new was the focus of our work this week. We started the week with Dogger by Shirley Hughes, a firm favourite of many children. We heard the story, and wrote a description of Dogger, the lost toy dog. Wednesday saw the arrival of parents and grandparents toys and there were … Read more
In D&T we designed a glove puppet and made it by making a 3D head and a fabric glove. We had to make sure it looked like the character we designed. In Literacy we practised by reading some short plays and pretending to be different characters. In groups we then talked about our ideas and … Read more
We have been learning about the needs of living things in science and the school value of patience. We have watered our hyacinth bulb and have waited patiently for it to grow. Yippee! Here it is at last. It smells loveley
The children welcomed their teddy bears into school on Monday as we embarked on a day of ‘bear centred’ activity. The teddy bears were measured to find out which one was the tallest and who had the shortest.one. Ellie’s teddy was by far the tallest with Faye’s being the shortest. When we measured the waists … Read more
Our class assembly this term was almost entirely in French but we did have Freddie acting as translator for the keystage 1 children. We gave information about France and talked about some of the things France is famous for. Then, we had roleplays about greetings, illness and ordering food in a restaurant. There were songs in French … Read more
