Lower School (KS1)

Inskip welcomed five absolutely wonderful new Reception children to our school family! These photos showcase how well they navigated around school on their very first day of BIG SCHOOL and how big and brave they were to try their new school dinners. 

We are all so proud of each of…

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…

Lower School have loved the opportunity to play outside and bring their small world play to life in the straw - particularly acting out their time on the farm! 
 

Hopefully we can sneak in there again to play before summer! 

We all can’t quite believe we are starting our penultimate week at school…and what a week it will be! 

It is always so heartwarming to see our Year Two’s initiating play which captivates the enthusiasm of our younger ones. Before our very eyes, play has evolved and spiralled in different…

Monday was our ‘Stay and Play’ day for our new Reception starters and for a new little Year 1! We absolutely loved having them for the day and can’t wait for them to return! 

Lower School absolutely loved displaying their final creation and loved taking them on an adventure around school! 
 

We are so proud of their creativity and teamwork!

Over the last few weeks, Lower School has been thoroughly enjoying our Robots topic! 
 

The Year 1’s and Reception have been loving reading ‘No-Bot…The Robot With No Bottom!’ and we have all enjoyed exploring short stories and animations featuring robots.

Lower School have also enjoyed…

Over the last few weeks, we have been focusing on our Sports Afternoon and preparing for all the different races and activities. 
 

We have been learning how to work together in a relay race, how to hold a bow to aim at an archery target and how to move whilst balancing an object.

We are…

Our little Rainbow group have been working so hard to recognise numbers to 20 and counting out various items. We have also been practising how to form the written numbers 0 - 10 and doing an incredible job!

Lower School have been learning about our incredible human bodies. We have talked about different parts of the body, our skeletons and our incredible senses! 
 

Over the past couple of weeks, Year 2 have been enchanted by our new magical story - ‘Leon and the Place Between’. We have made predictions, carried on parts of the story, written incredible setting descriptions and discussed all the different stories and films our book has reminded us of.

We…

Lower School have been busy exploring materials and their properties. They worked so hard to investigate which materials would keep teddy dry…and have explored magnetic materials too…

Super stars!!