Blog by Penny Kemp

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 ...

We all really enjoyed our visit from Liz and hedgehog number 3276 (we named him Hedgly!) this morning. The children were able to see him up close, stroke him and ask lots of questions about the care and lifestyle of hedgehogs. We got lots of great information to help us write our non-ficiton…

Year 2 had a maths, science and art afternoon today. Following our work looking at seasons and changes in our environment we went for a leaf hunt on our school grounds. This led to lots of great discussion comparing the fallen leaves we had found noticing patterns, colours and shapes. We thought…

Year 1 and 2 children have been great co-operative 'Busy Bee' learners working in pairs to find features of non-fiction texts in books. They did this to help them see and learn how to set out information ready for when they write the facts they have learnt about hedgehogs. 

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Lots of fun learning has been happening in Lower School this last few weeks inspired by the weather and our environment we started looking at the changes Autumn brings. We have been reading lots of Percy the Parkkeeper stories and have created a fantastic Percy's Park, shed and inside his house…