Blog by Penny Kemp

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…

Happy Mothering Sunday to all our wonderful mums! 

I hope the mums and mummies of our children enjoyed opening their envelopes this morning as the children put a lot of thought and love into your letters and cards. 

The Reception children made some zig zag cards saying how they love their…

Wow what a busy, fun filled week we have had for our first week back! It has been fantastic to be back together, we have all really enjoyed having a full and busy classroom again.

Our learning this week has been centred around books and stories as we have belatedly celebrated World Book day,…

We are very pleased to let you know about an exciting time in the history of our school.

As a result of rising numbers in Upper School the governors have been able to take the impactful decision to split the class into two, with Years 5 and 6 remaining as our Upper School class and Years 3 and…

I am excited for WBD this year! 

In Lower School we are going to have a World Book Week spreading out our lovely activities to celebrate the joy and wonder of reading over 5 days. Here are 9 new pictures books I have got ready to share with the class next week. We are going to have double the…

Gail the snail has been helping the Reception children learn the ‘ai’ sound and the Year 1 children to investigate the different ways to make an ‘ai’ sound. 

We started the learning by having a guided reading session reading fact cards about slugs and snails. We learnt lots of new things, had a…

Lots of fun with this open ended activity for our Reception children in school. We had Counting to 10, 20, 100 Counting in tens and lots more!

Mrs Kemp :)

Year one are working with numbers to 50 and played with this activity to deepen their understanding. 

Mrs Kemp :)

We had some fun with sticks in Lower School today! 

At the weekend a large tree fell over in the wind at my home so I brought some of the branches into school for the children to investigate and play with. We read one of our favourite stories "Stickman" by Julia Donaldson and then the children…