Lower School (KS1)

Our week began excitedly recounting their experiences of Bonfire Night and lots of them enjoyed fireworks, bonfires and family fun.

We have been using our senses all week as we remembered the experiences of Bonfire Night, listened to beautiful music composed by George Frideric Handel and…

As an extra activity to develop their skills of using their senses to explore the world around them and create great vocabulary the children played with my birthday roses that had started to die!

It was so lovely to see them enjoy an open ended task that began with them pulling the petals off…

The children worked hard to write their poems after lots of discussion and collecting of vocabulary to use. Well done everyone

We had more fun than ever in our music lesson this week as we have lots of new musical instruments to use. Huge thanks to our brilliant Friends committee who have bought lots of new instruments for all the children in school with their fundraising.

Have a look at these photos to see us…

We have been reading lots of traditional tales this week.  In our English lessons Year 1 and 2 children are learning the story of Little Red Riding Hood and reading lots of twisted tales before they write their own. The Reception children have been listening to lots of traditional tales and…

Super maths learning this week. Year One have been  investigating the number bonds to ten in a variety of ways and doing addition. Year 2 have been investigating adding 2 digit and 1 digit numbers and crossing 10. 

In Lower School we start every day with handwriting practise, the children are showing great progress particularly our Reception children.

The Reception children have now learnt the first 6 sounds in Phase 2 of the phonics programme so we are having fun blending the sounds to read words. Great…

Our Reception children have been exploring patterns this week and creating repeating patterns of their own. 

They have been using their bodies (boy,girl,boy, girl ...), objects and drawing patterns to deepen their understanding. 

Great learning children!

As part of our theme ‘The Place Where I Live’ this half term we are learning about the history of our school and we have been great detectives looking closely at life in the past through photos and artefacts. 

We are lucky to have some amazingly interesting log books from when our school first…

We love reading in Lower School and we have special time to enjoy books, comics and newspapers as often as we can. We call it ERIC time and the name stands for Everyone Reading In Class. 

Have a look at these photographs...

Did you know that during Victorian times there could be up to 60 children in a class? That meant that 5 children would have to share just two chairs. We tried it! As you can see from the main photo we found that it would be very tricky to concentrate so squished and very difficult to write!

We…

Our Reception children have been learning about matching and sorting in maths using lots of different resources. I think their favourite activity has been matching and sorting the socks into pairs after ‘washing’ them in our new Casdon Toys washing machine!  Not only did the children talk about…