Lower School (KS1)

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.

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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.

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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!!

Lower School have continued learning how to carefully send a ball to a partner so they have a good chance of catching. Lower School learnt the three top tips: face the racket towards their partner so the ball can make contact with the racket; hold the racket with two hands for more control; and…

Year 2 have been busy furthering their understanding of fractions through ‘baking’ cookies and pizza! We ‘kneaded’ and ‘rolled’ out our ‘dough’ before creating our ‘pizza base’ or ‘cookies’ - so much fun!

We talked about how many toppings they could have so each slice had an equal amount of…

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…