Lower School (KS1)

We had the most fantastic, jam packed day at Hothersall Lodge yesterday! Thank you to all the staff there particularly Jenny who led our group activities and Bailey who helped.

Our Reception children have been doing lots of great learning this week take a look at these photos showing a few of the things they have been doing! 

Our Y2 children have been maths whizzs this week adding and subtracting two digit numbers both crossing and not crossing ten. 

Well done Y2 I am so impressed with your progress!

We have been history detectives this week learning about the Great Fire that tore through London in September 1666. This week the children learnt where it began and they sequenced the events as they unfolded over the four days. 

Our Reception children have been having fun creating fireworks in glitter and sand this week. They have been practicing writing letters and numbers too. 
 

We are busy practising reading tricky words and high frequency words by seeing how many we can read in two minutes! Once the children have had one round against the timer they have to challenge themselves to go faster and beat their score the next time. 
 

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This week we had a surprise visitor, it was Zog the dragon! He found him in our classroom with a copy of his school report from Madam Dragon. 
 

We read the story and began doing different English activities …

I hope you’re all having a great half term break, we have some really interesting learning happening next half term, have a look at these videos and interactive games and start learning about The Great Fire of London …

Watch this video  

Play the game on this website … …

As a maths activity this week in EYFS creating patterns all the children have had the opportunity to print with Duplo blocks to create patterns on pumpkins. As part of raising awareness about recycling, as it is recycling week this week, we reused packing paper that had come in parcel to print…

This week the children have had fun pretending to be hairdressers as they gave the cardboard rolls haircuts, legs, skirts  and trousers as part of a PSHE and fine motor skills activity.

We used photos of children showing different emotions to spark conversation and as the children were busy…

The children have thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with metallic wax crayons and Brusho crystal colours. They drew the natural objects, leaves, that they had studied last week in metallic wax crayons using the skills they have learnt in previous weeks. 

This week I introduced them to wax resist…

We are learning about non-fiction texts as the children are gathering information ready to write their own non-fiction book about penguins. We have chosen to learn about penguins as it has allowed some great cross curricular learning with our science (learning about animals) and goeography…