Blog by Cheryl Langley

Lower School have been busy exploring materials and their properties. They worked so hard to investigate which materials would keep teddy dry…and have explored magnetic materials too…

Super stars!!

Here are lots more pictures from our visit to Borwick…

Jo Hurley

Lower School have continued learning how to carefully send a ball to a partner so they have a good chance of catching. Lower School learnt the three top tips: face the racket towards their partner so the ball can make contact with the racket; hold the racket with two hands for more control; and…

Year 2 have been busy furthering their understanding of fractions through ‘baking’ cookies and pizza! We ‘kneaded’ and ‘rolled’ out our ‘dough’ before creating our ‘pizza base’ or ‘cookies’ - so much fun!

We talked about how many toppings they could have so each slice had an equal amount of…

Thank you to our lovely Year Six who came down to listen to our little ones read. They were extremely supportive and patient and even helped the little ones to practise writing their names or to write tricky words. 
 

Thank you Year Six!

Year 5 have been lucky enough to have a set of PSHE lessons delivered to them by Corey, our sports coach. Over the past few weeks they have been learning about healthy eating and today they learnt about staying hydrated. The lessons are always fun and very active! The children have enjoyed filling…

The Year 6s visited Lower School this afternoon to support the children with their reading skills. They listened to them read their home reading books, wrote in their reading records and then spent time practising writing together. Enjoy looking at the very cute photos! 
Mrs Hurley

This week, Lower School have been enjoying ‘Stuck’ by Oliver Jeffers.

We have created our own kites, asked questions about the story using question words, retold the story so far to our friends, used drama to represent the various things that went up into the tree, drawn incredible…

Play-Doh has landed in Lower School! 
 

After choosing their very own colour pot, Lower School created new little Class Dojo monsters! They accessorised with the little eyes, hands, feet before rolling phonics dice to name them!
 

‘Fl-oy-ch’ or ‘Tr-ow-ng’…we loved the silly little…

Upper School have been investigating manga drawing and anime in our art lessons. This week, the children tried out their own ideas for a manga character using inspiration from other manga drawings. The results are fantastic! See the gallery for some of the pictures they completed.

Mrs…

Today the Year 6s completed their last SATs test! It has been a long week and the children have all worked their socks off towards the tests and throughout this week. They richly deserved the celebration cakes that some of our parents made and brought into school. Thank you to Bethan, Abi and…

In PE, Lower School have been learning how to hold a tennis racket, hit a ball back to their partner and how to carefully throw a ball to their partner (aiming for their racket).

They have been working brilliantly together and showing great coordination and control! 

Well done Lower…