Blog by Penny Kemp

This year the children created some beautiful, unique cards to say thank you to their Mums this Mother’s Day. 
 

As part of our DT skills the children have been learning how to sew a simple running stitch. They practised threading using laces and cards to learn the technique to begin with. Then they chose some felt and embroidery thread and made toggle for a key ring as a gift for their Mummies this Mother’s…

We have started using a great phonics and reading programme in school called Teacher Your Monster. All your children’s log in details were sent home this weekend so that they can play and practice at home. Please enjoy the maths games too. Have fun learning!

Here are some photos of just a few…

A few weeks ago, Luke’s Grandma kindly brought us some frog spawn to study. We kept it at school long enough to see a few tadpoles emerge before giving it back for it to be returned to the pond for the tadpoles to grow and turn into frogs in their natural environment. 
 

It gave us a great…

How can I find out more about myself? Was the question we asked ourselves this week in our history lesson. Whilst exploring this question the children learnt more about their own history. They talked about three special memories to begin with and explained why memories such as an event or occasion…

During this half term the children are learning some similarities and differences between the past and their own lives. They have learnt that a timeline shows the order events in the past happened. We started by looking at now on a timeline and then looked back. 

Take a look at these photos…

The children wrote their own books and became authors on World Book Day!

The children have been improving their fine motor an drawing skills drawing robots. Once they were happy with their drawings the children used watercolour paints to paint them. They practised lots of skills, using the brushes and paints correctly whilst learning how to use the right amount of…

The children made some awesome bookmarks this afternoon after our whole school buddy reading time. They’re keeping them in their new World Book Day books!

World Book Day fun began (after we had listened to a story) with the children reading lots of books and searching for certain characters and other things in books. 
 

This year for World Book Day we all dressed up in an outfit that showed an adjective as we are focusing on spelling and grammar in our literacy work right now. Thank you so much to our children and families for joining in the fun and creating some brilliant outfits. Take a look at the children…

Each term we dip in and out of science learning about plants, observing what is growing at different times of the year. The children build up their knowledge and understanding of seasonal changes and the different stages of, and needs for, plant growth.

Yesterday, we had a discussion about…