Lower School (KS1)

Thank you to all the parents who came to our reading meeting on Monday afternoon, it was lovely to see you all and chat about all things to do with reading! 

I launched our new class lending library which has been a great success this week with children taking books home to enjoy and returning…

Our Reception group have been busy creating lots of interesting things with big boxes and writing about them this week. We have had secret doors, magic doors, fairy castles, dinosaur lands, cars and so many more! We loved listening to the stories you made up as you played children!

As part of our topic ‘Explorers’ and as part of our English learning reading stories by the same author we have been reading the marvellous books by the artist and author Simon Bartram. We have been enjoying Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary, Bob The Man on The Moon, Bob and his Best Ever Friend Ever and…

Our EYFS children have been busy designing and creating junk models and wowing us with their skills and creativity. 

Well done, children, your labels telling us what your models are, are fantastic too!

This week in our RE lesson we discussed the miracle Jesus performed when he turned water into wine (John 2:1-11) at the wedding in Cana. The children decided that the miracles Jesus performed show us that Jesus was special and that it made his friends, his disciples, realise how special he…

We have been learning about China as part of our geography topic and began by looking at different objects and guessing which country they came from which prompted great discussion and learning. 
 

The children have been learning how to use an atlas, find land and oceans on globes and maps…

We had a lovely treat this week as the Upper School children came to share their writing with us. They had written letters to the children in Lower School explaining their RE learning to them and had also created some information posters about tigers to share with us. 
 

Thank you so much…

A busy learning week with new learning about China, capital letters and the numbers 6,7 and 8 (as well as all the many other  skills and knowledge we build on every week!)

Here are some snapshots into our week …

Reception have had a busy week being builders after watching the houses being built in the field next to ours! They have been cooking and baking in the nature kitchen, learning phonics and maths, doing PE and lots of other activities! Here are a few snapshots of their week. 

What is a word processor and what do we use it for?

This is a question we discussed this week and began learning how to write digitally using a word processor. We also learnt about the the speed of emails!

The children studied a keyboard and started to learn where the keys are and what they…

Our Eco monitors, who are Duke and Alex this week, have been kept busier than usual this week as they’ve had extra plants to care for! We already have two Peace Lillies, a fern, a succulent and a Spider Plant but this week I brought in there ‘mystery’ plants.

The groups of children have been…

To finish our history learning (looking at significant explorers in the past) we looked at a modern explorer this week. Zara Rutherford has just broken records to be the youngest woman at 19yrs old to fly around the world solo in a microlight this week. 
 

The children thought about where they…