Blog by Penny Kemp

We have started reading books written and illustrated by John Burningham, who is the author we are studying this half term. Which books do you recognise, which stories do you know?

Welcome 2024! I am extremely happy to be back in Lower School with our fabulous children and we are having a great week of learning so far. 
 

The children have been enjoying reading to their new reading buddies. Take a look at these photographs…

Dear Parents and children,

Woo hoo it is nearly the summer holidays! I hope you are all looking forward to the freedom of the break from school and enjoying family time together. I’ve been putting together some ideas of how you can keep up the great progress in reading and writing your children…

The Reception children enjoyed a funny story called The King’s Pants this morning and have then been practising counting to 20 and recognising the numerals with a matching activity. Take a look at these photos to see they’re learning …

St George is the patron saint of England and it is believed that he was a soldier in the Roman army who died a martyr's death for his faith in 303 AD.  23rd April is believed to be the day that George died and so it is on this day each year we mark it as St George’s Day. 

In the Christian…

This week we have enjoyed looking closely at all kinds of different maps, paper maps and digital maps. We learnt what a map is and how it works.  
 

Vivian French, the author of many children’s books, very kindly sent us a copy of her book “Maps from Anna to Zane” as a present a little while…

We have been busy this week using our fabulous outdoor space for our maths learning. As you can see from these photos, in the different year groups we are learning to count to 20, learning to count in 10s, 2s and 5s as well as learning numbers to 100!

We are so happy to be back at school after the Easter holidays! We started the week reminding ourselves how to work in teams, being helpful, kind and resourceful in our learning. 
 

Take a look at these photos to see how we worked collaboratively and searched for things as apart of a scavenger…

We are SO lucky to have our very own swimming pool in the playground! Our children have been enjoying swimming every day and have made so much progress this week.

We are really proud of you children, well done!

We have been looking closely at line and pattern in art this week. First we experimented with pencils learning how to create light and dark shades.  Then we looked at different feathers and drew them in our sketchbooks.

We have been learning about the meaning of Mothering Sunday to Christians. On the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter Sunday we visit our ‘mother church’ and give thanks. In the past, it was a day when children, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day to visit their…

We have had a great visit from Prags Birk today who came to talk to us about Hinduism. We have learnt so much by looking at different artefacts learning what they represent and how they are used. We had the chance to ask Prags lots of questions and compare Christianity to Hinduism. 
 

Prags…