Lower School (KS1)

As part of our RE unit this half term, 'Why is the church a special place for Christians?' Revd Paul invited us to visit him at St. Peter's Church. It was a lovely sunny day and our walk down through the village was enlivened by a cat who walked in front of us all the way down from our school…

As you know, Lower School and Middle School are having a classroom swap over and while that all happens I have been teaching the children in the hall. The theme of our two days together is Superheroes and we began the day by exploring what a superhero is or can be. We read the wonderful story of…

Our Reception and Year 1 children have been looking closely at capital and lower case letters using geoboards.

What better way to practise our adding more and taking away skills than doing it with delicious looking pretend cakes?

The children in Lower School have been using the cakes this week to practise number skills, sorting skills and using money.

We have been so busy in class making our brains bigger! 

Each year group in Lower School tends to be learning a different topic in maths from the other (it’s just the way it works) but we do whole class activities where we make our maths brains work every day as a group before we split off into…

This morning the Reception children performed 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow With A Flippy Floppy Hat' to us. They were wonderful and brilliant because they enjoyed it.  they did the actions perfectly, they danced, they joined in with the music and they actually sang. 

We were the audience and…

As part of our learning through our topic ‘The Great Outdoors’ we have been enjoying the story ‘The Scarecrow’s Wedding’ by Julia Donaldson. 

We have been learning the story ready to help us with ideas to write our own adventure story with scarecrows as the main characters. 

The Reception…

We have been thinking about all the things we are grateful for in Lower School and also thinking about our hopes for the future for ourselves and the world around us. 

Our discussion began with a lovely charity book called ‘Big H and Little h’ that was kindly sent to us by Victoria the author…

We're learning about Special Places in RE this half term. Moses spoke to God in the tent (Tabernacle) he built, we read the story of this in the Bible  in Numbers 7:89. Today we have  started to create our own Prayer Tent; the children draped fabric over a play tent we had, in order to make it a…

We are always talking about the weather! In Lower School we are talking about it a little more than we usually would at the moment as it is the focus of our geography learning this half term.  

Our new topic this half term is called The Great Outdoors (it's a great topic) our main focus…

It’s Earth Day every day but today we marked the official Earth Day with some beautiful new books. We have started reading them and they are sparking interesting questions and discussions. 

Each day in our phonics lessons we practice sounds we have already learnt, words we use in our sentences often and then we learn a new sound. We like to learn in fun ways, today we practiced reading and writing words with the ‘ur’ sound in them outside in our fabulous outdoor learning…