Lower School (KS1)

We love making our brains bigger by working with numbers in Lower School! EYFS have been learning number bonds to five through many different activities. Recently Year 1 and 2 have been learning about repeated addition and multiplication. Have a look at these photographs to see the great learning…

We had a lot of fun on Friday afternoon learning about 2D AND 3D shapes. The children worked together moving around four different activities where they recognised, named, sorted and described 2D and 3D shapes. Take a look at these photographs to see their learning ...

Sophia brought her award into school to show us what she has achieved in her gymnastics lessons. What a super star you are Sophia, well done!

David and Goliath

In today’s RE lesson we focused on the Bible story David and Goliath.

After hearing the story read from the bible, we worked in groups to retell the tale, wearing masks to really get into character!

We sequenced the main events in our RE books and even had a go at…

Today we were very lucky to have a visit from Anthony Roberts, a local postman who came to tell us all about his job. In our English lessons we have been reading the book 'The Jolly Postman' to inspire our writing and so we were excited to welcome a real, jolly postman into school!

Before the…

Happy 7th birthday Emily, we hope you have a lovely birthday tea tonight!

Happy New Year! We are excited to be back and start Spring Term. 

Our first topic this half term is called ‘The Place Where I Live’ where we will be learning lots of new geography and history skills.

In our RE lesson today we asked the question: What would the world be like if everyone was helpful to each other?

We read the story of Moses and learnt that God wants us to be helpful and to ask for help.

Playing a fun dressing up game, we discovered that tricky tasks can be made much easier…

We had lots of fun playing games!

This year the children learnt new painting techniques by printing with potatoes, objects, strips of card and their fingers to create different effects and make a great snow picture. 

They also finished off their clay decorations by painting them. Have a look at these photographs of the learning…

Keith Haring also made sculptures, after looking at these the children turned their favourite sketch of a dancing figure into a clay sculpture!

Progressing from the skills they learnt whilst making their Christmas tree decorations the children learnt how to make a pinch pot to create slip with…

As part of our art project of learning how to work with clay we have made some tree decorations to take home.

Miss Haynes explained how we use different tools and the children experimented to achieve different effects. 

Once they have dried the children will paint them, add a ribbon and take…