Chinese New Year Celebrations!

Pupils were keen to learn about the tasty Chinese food as part of their Geography unit this term. They were able to make the noodles with assisted teacher support. All pupils enjoyed the tasting session as well as socialising in the William Ransom Chinese restaurant.

Reception explore the Moon

This week the children have been learning about the Moon, Neil Armstrong and about space travel. We looked at Google Moon which was fantastic and the children really enjoyed it. You can find it on Google Earth and then go to the picture of the yellow planet on the tool bar at the top of … Read more

World Cup fever hits the reception class!

A very warm week has not been conducive to minibeast hunting but fabulous in most respects! The reception children explored another two habitats on our bug hunting Monday. Firstly they looked at what lived in the trees. The children looked at the trunk of the trees and then held white sheets and shook the branches … Read more

Class 1/2’s latest Assembly

Class 1/2’s Chinese New Year Assembly Pupils in Class 1/2 have been learning about China. They have made made Chinese noodles, Chinese dragon puppets, Chinese lanterns and have heard the Chinese story about the how the animals were decided to represent the Chinese New Year. Class 1/2 pupils can located the map of China and … Read more

Reception investigates several sorts of slimy snails.

Another week packed with activity and learning. After a quick chat with ‘talking partners’ we discovered that between us we knew quite a lot about snails. A non-fiction Usborne text entitled ‘Snails’ added to the children’s knowledge and they all wrote some interesting facts for their writing in class. Story recall of ‘Odo the Snail’ … Read more

Class 1R’s Minibeast Assembly

Last week Class 1R performed an Assembly on Minibeasts. They had read an information book called ‘Minibeast Encyclopedia’ in their Literacy lessons and this was their inspiration. Everyone had a line to learn for the Assembly and they all spoke in loud, clear voices. They showed some minibeast artwork, sang the rhyme ‘Incy Wincy Spider’ … Read more