Blog by Penny Kemp

It’s Earth Day every day but today we marked the official Earth Day with some beautiful new books. We have started reading them and they are sparking interesting questions and discussions. 

Each day in our phonics lessons we practice sounds we have already learnt, words we use in our sentences often and then we learn a new sound. We like to learn in fun ways, today we practiced reading and writing words with the ‘ur’ sound in them outside in our fabulous outdoor learning…

We have been busy making our brains bigger this week doing lots of different maths activities. The Reception children have been looking at numbers to 20 and beyond. They have been using tens frames to make a full ten and then more to understand numbers beyond ten. They have also been playing bingo…

PE back on the field in the sunny weather this week!

It’s been a wonderful start to the summer term ...

Oh my goodness we have had a very exciting morning, it all started when Alex found a letter that had mysteriously appeared in the classroom.

The children were very, very excited by the letter and Maddison told us all that she knew that the Easter Bunny could be invisible and hide behind trees…

Here are the finished cards our EYFS and Year One and Two have made this year to give to their families to celebrate Easter. 

The children have been learning about measuring in maths so what better way to practise their learning than weighing out real ingredients to make some Easter themed biscuits? 

Lots of learning and fun was had as the children made, decorated and ate their biscuits (with even more hand washing…

Lots of learning with an Easter theme this week ...

The children have been great science detectives this week. I brought a bunch of tulips that my own children had given to me on Mother's Day into school for the children to have a close look at. They had a look at a photograph of the tulips when they were fresh and noted the differences in them now…

Lower School has been busy as usual this week. 

‘Rabunzel’ (a story about a rabbit with very long ears who gets put in a very high tower) by Gareth P Jones is our class story at the moment and our Year One and Two children have been innovating the story and creating a new adventure for Rabunzel…

This week we have been learning about the true meaning of Easter.

We discussed how we celebrate Easter with our families at home and how we usually visit Church together (sadly we cannot this year). We learnt the reason behind giving chocolate eggs to celebrate Easter is that the eggs represent…