Blog by Penny Kemp

The children have thoroughly enjoyed their DT project learning about levers and linkages. Please take a look at these photographs to see the children progress through the various stages of making their moving monsters. Keep looking right to the end photos to see the children with their finished…

As part of our learning about families and how we grow and change over time our Reception children have painted pictures of themselves this week. 
 

The children looked closely at their features in mirrors as they drew a picture of themselves in pencil first. Then they mixed colours as they…

Today we learnt about Buddhism when we had a visit from Pagpa a Buddhist monk.  Pagpa explained what Buddhism is and how he has lived his life as a monk for the last 27 years, it was very interesting. Pagpa explained the significance of his clothes to us, the maroon coloured skirt is called a…

Our Reception children have been learning new joining techniques this week and created some great models using junk materials.

 

Our Year 1 & 2 children have begun a new design and technology project this week. Their project is to design and make a moving monster.

We began by looking closely at a variety of mechanical and non mechanical toys and answering these questions…

• Can you name any components (for example,…

Today in our PE lesson we have been doing a variety of activities to develop our throwing skills.

The children focused on throwing for accuracy and concentrated on throwing their beanbag or ball at a target. Our success criteria for a great overarm throw are:

• stand sideways
• step forward…

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring the big question ‘What made Jesus Special?’.

We have been answering some key questions …

What does special mean?

Jesus was special. How and Why?

What made Jesus special?

We began by discussing friendship, reflecting on our own…

This week we have continued our science learning looking closely at plants. The children have compared different plants, looked closely and named a variety of fruit and vegetables. They’ve recapped their learning about trees and built upon their learning. 
 

Take a look at these photos to see…

We were so lucky to get some of the brilliant author and illustrator Rob Biddulph’s books last week. We love Rob’s picture books and have some favourites in our classroom already so, knowing his stories and loving his artwork already made it a special treat to have books signed by him! A big thank…

This week as part of our science topic about plants we have been learning about garden plants, wild plants and trees. 
 

We looked outside, looked at photographs and watched videos about these plants and used our scientific enquiry skills to learn. 
 

Here is a snap shot of our…

Our Reception children went out in the snow before anyone else this morning to explore the wonders of nature. They looked for signs of wildlife and talked about how the weather affects and changes the world outside. 

Take a look at the things they found and the fun they had…

What an absolutely beautiful snowy morning it was this morning! We couldn’t resist going out to investigate. We looked for signs of wildlife and found bird prints in the snow. 
 

We practised our phonics and then began creating different giant footprints thinking about the traditional tale…