An exciting week as the children explored the dark by sitting in the unlit ‘dark den’. We talked about sources of light, learnt about nocturnal animals and about fears of the dark as we heard the story of 'The owl who was afraid of the dark' by Jill Tomlinson and Tom’s Afraid of the Dark … Read more
Yesterday Class 4/5 presented their assembly on Hinduism to the rest of the school. They all spoke loudly and clearly and made Miss Eldridge very proud.
In History, Class 3 have been learning about Stonehenge and how archaeologists have had to use clues left behind by the builders of Stonehenge to try to understand how it might have once looked. They also considered the different theories about why prehistoric people might have built such a huge monument. The next step was … Read more
For the last couple of weeks, Class 5/6W have been looking at instruction and explanation texts in literacy. Towards the end of the unit, the children had to write their own feedback as if they were the judges on the popular tv show Strictly Come Dancing. At first the children looked at previous dances from … Read more
Another busy week as the children learnt some new skills and practised the old. The week started with retelling our half term holiday news which made exciting reading! Firework night led us to look at the life of Guy Fawkes and think about fireworks. The children tried to think of words that described the sound … Read more
This term the children have been learning about rivers as their unit of work in Geography. On a very cold Wednesday Morning, both 5/6 Classes went on field trip to Oughtonhead Common Nature reserve. The children were separated into groups of eight with each group being given a booklet of activities to complete. While the … Read more
Class 2 performed an informative assembly about Guy Fawkes today. They told us about the gunpowder plot, how to stay safe on Bonfire Night and shared some of their fireworks art work with the rest of the school.
This term the children have been learning about rivers as their unit of work in Geography. On a very cold Wednesday Morning, both 5/6 Classes went on field trip to Oughtonhead Common Nature reserve. The children were separated into groups of eight with each group being given a booklet of activities to complete. While the … Read more
To link in with the work that the children have been doing in IT, the children have written a number of blogs to sum up the first half term as a pupil in Class 5/6W. Unfortunately it is not possible to share all 32 blogs on our page but we hope you enjoy the selection … Read more
After a long half term, we finally made it to the last week. We have been looking forward to this week but there was still a lot of work to do. In maths we continued working on our addition and subtraction, using resources to help us. In Literacy we have continued to use information books … Read more
