Blog by Penny Kemp

Super maths learning in EYFS this week ...

Welcome back and Happy New Year! 2018 is going to be a great year! We are starting our year off with an exciting topic called Explorers. Today the children had to guess what our topic is by looking at the items in a rucksack. Iain was the first to work it out. 

After lots of discussion the…

Hurray, we’ve sponsored a hedgehog family to help Woodlands Animal Sanctuary in all the wonderful work they do caring for animals.

The children are almost ready to present their fantastic production of Hosanna Rock!

Great learning from Year One and Two children this morning as they created characters and thought of powerful adjectives to describe them. 

Great learning about 3D shapes this morning in Lower School! The children were really engaged in their learning building 3D shapes with cocktail sticks, mini marshmellows and midget gems! There was a lot of reasoning, problem solving happening whilst the the children built and discussed the…

Magic moments so far this week (and it is only Tuesday) ... 

Ted was the Maths Shark yesterday for his amazing finding the difference by counting on. 

The whole class investigated which foods are more healthy for us to eat and why. We had some interesting discussions about food and learnt…

Year One children have been showing me their great understanding this morning. They have learnt how to count on to find the missing part of a whole number. 

It's Children in Need day!  We all brought a special teddy into school today and gave some money to a collection to be sent to Children In Need.

We learnt all about the charity Children In Need and why they raise money. We talked about what is a child in need and thought about others who are…

Great maths learning outdoors today with Year One children. They are learning how to add on and how to use a number line to add by jumping up the number line. Well done maths superstars!

Sian,Bethan and Claire have made a cosy, warm home for a hedgehog. They have placed it under the hedge for a lucky hedgehog to find! Great busy bee learners. 

Learning number pairs or number bonds to 10 is really important, knowing them off by heart helps you work out all sorts of maths problems quickly. Use these videos to help you learn ...