Blog by Penny Kemp

Last term our topic was Growth and Green Fingers and as part of our science learning all the Year 1 and 2 children planted a broad bean seed. We 'planted' the beans in old CD cases which gave us a fabulous opportunity to see the roots and shoot develop. The chidlren all kept a diary of the changes…

In Year One this term we are learning;

• To recognise and know the different denominations of coins and notes. Please let your children use real coins and notes and play shop with them.
• Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour.
• To recognise and name common 2D and 3D…

We have studied the work of the French artist called Oscar-Claude Monet who was born in 1840. He was a founder of Impressionist painting.  This style of painting is named after Monet's painting, Impressions, Sunrise, which he exhibited in 1874. We learnt…

In our topic ‘Family Album’ we are learning about the past. Today Mr Proctor came to visit us and talked about what birthdays were like for him when he was a little boy. He is a very young looking 73 and talked about his 7^th birthday in 1950 and other birthdays around that age.  First we thought…

Happy Birthday to Isobella and Luke! Both are 7 years old today.

Wow! what a busy couple of days we have had. First we looked at why, we as Christians have Shrove Tuesday, as preparation for lent. We eat up all the rich foods on Shrove Tuesday as it is Ash Wednesday the day after.  Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent and when Jesus went into the dessert for 40…

In Lower school here at St Peter's we are very lucky to have two classrooms! Although we are one mixed age class of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children we have the luxury of two huge classrooms and a lovely outdoor learning space just for us!  We have one classroom set up as a room of…

Working with numbers becomes a lot easier when you have learnt your times tables! To learn them you simply have to remember them, we have to train our memory to remember them.

By the end of Year Two it is a statutory requirement within the national curriculum for number that children should…