Lower School (KS1)

Thank you to our lovely Year Six who came down to listen to our little ones read. They were extremely supportive and patient and even helped the little ones to practise writing their names or to write tricky words. 
 

Thank you Year Six!

This week, Lower School have been enjoying ‘Stuck’ by Oliver Jeffers.

We have created our own kites, asked questions about the story using question words, retold the story so far to our friends, used drama to represent the various things that went up into the tree, drawn incredible…

Play-Doh has landed in Lower School! 
 

After choosing their very own colour pot, Lower School created new little Class Dojo monsters! They accessorised with the little eyes, hands, feet before rolling phonics dice to name them!
 

‘Fl-oy-ch’ or ‘Tr-ow-ng’…we loved the silly little…

In PE, Lower School have been learning how to hold a tennis racket, hit a ball back to their partner and how to carefully throw a ball to their partner (aiming for their racket).

They have been working brilliantly together and showing great coordination and control! 

Well done Lower…

Over the last couple of weeks, Lower School have been ‘buzzy’ exploring their new story - ‘The Bumblebear’ by Nadia Shireen.

We first used our own imagination in ‘Drawing Club’ to share what we thought Norman’s ‘amazing and brilliant idea’ could have been. Using the front cover as a HUGE clue,…

Lower School celebrated the upcoming Coronation with crafty crowns and some very appropriately-coloured icing of yummy biscuits… 
 

Thank you to Mrs Welsh and Mrs Jackson for marking the occasion and making it a special day for the…

On Thursday, the whole school got to enjoy a picnic style lunch - either with their packed lunches or with a school dinner - to celebrate the upcoming coronation. 
The children finished their lovely lunch by singing the National Anthem! 

Here you can see years 2, 3 and 4

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!