Blog by Penny Kemp

The break in to our classes by a mysterious beast we had last week reminded me of a great story I have called  Billy and the Beast by Nadia Shireen. So this week we have been reading it and doing some great learning inspired by the story. The children have been improving the grammar and…

We have been learning about number in all different ways this week. Our flowers have grown quickly as we have been taking care of them and noticing the changes in height as they grow. We have been doing lots of counting to twenty and improving our fine motor skills in Reception and Year One. Take…

Our Year One and Two children were practicing creating statement, question and exclamation sentences this week. As a warm up activity they looked closely at our plants and created sentences of each type using the plants as the topic to write about. They created some great sentences, well done…

We love learning about the world around us, in Lower School we talk about why we are doing a task, why are we learning a particular thing. In science we are exploring the topics of animals and plants thinking of how this learning will help us in life and may inspire the children to have a career…

We learn so much maths in one week, all three year groups cover different areas. Take a look at these photographs to see a snapshot of what we have been learning…

Something strange happened in our classroom in Lower School over half term! We arrived at school on Monday morning to find the classroom door open, huge footprints on the carpet, chairs knocked over, a yellow coat laid on the floor and the children’s fruit eaten. Whilst we were wondering what it…

Reception’s week has been full of great learning, here are a few photographs giving you a glimpse into their days in school. 
 

The children have loved exploring this tray this week, lots of play, talk, maths and storytelling happening!

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about famous explorers. The children have learnt about people who explored space, hot places and cold places in the past. They’ve also spent time thinking about what equipment they would need if they were to go exploring to any of these places nowadays…

As part of our author study we have begun a series of writing activities based on John Burningham’s story called The Magic Bed this week. It’s a great story about a boy called Georgie who, instead of buying a brand new bed from the department store as his Grannie wishes, buys a bed from an…

The children in Year 1 and 2 have been exploring fact families in addition this week and using their understanding to help them add two digit numbers which cross over ten. The children in Reception have been learning all about weight, measuring how heavy or light items are and comparing. They have…

Inspired by the snow this week the Reception and Year 1 children created snowflakes improving their fine motor control and talking about pattern and shape. Our Year 2 children had a challenge to create a snowman with a personality!