Lower School (KS1)

Over the past few weeks the children have been showing their great maths learning. 

Thank you very much to Barton Grange who have very kindly given us a voucher for £20 with which we will buy plants and seeds for our science learning this term. 

Welcome back after half term, it was lovely to hear all the children's news today.  We have started our new learning for this half term through our topics 'The Farm Shop' in Year 1 and 2 and 'Farms and Growing' in EYFS. 

We began the day reading 'Farmer Duck' by Martin Waddell and then some of…

What a treat the whole school shared today! We had a visit from Moth Physical Theatre https://theatremoth.wixsite.com/mothphysicaltheatre . Here in Lower School we were treated to a short play telling a story of Wild Wilma and BB the bear. The children were enthralled by the puppets and how…

Well done Bethan, what a super swimmer you are for swimming 25m backstroke. We are very proud of you.

I’m so proud of the children and their attitude to learning this morning, well done Year 1 and 2. 

They have been creating a book for our school library. To present the information they have researched about Christopher Columbus they have worked in pairs and word processed the…

Great listening and great progress meant that Amelia was a star Gymnast today, well done!

Follow these links for your research ... 

    about  Christopher Columbus. 

Think ... What do we already know about him? 

Where have we seen information so far? 

Where else could we look?

What sort of pictures will we be able to use?  

Click on these links to different websites…

Reception had a good tidy up time in our garden area this morning. They cleared out the weeds and turned over the soil in our tyres that we had grown potatoes and wild flowers in last year. Then they planted some bulbs and shrubs in the wooden trough planters. They learnt new things and showed…

We have had a fantastic and interesting afternoon today, thanks to Adrian Worrell who came to visit us. He dressed as Ernest Shackleton the polar explorer and took us through the ages of exploration thinking of why people explored, how they did it, when and what they did when they got to the lands…

I was greeted just now by a very proud Isaac who wanted to show me his super story writing. He's thought up and used some great ideas and told the whole story. Mrs Kemp and I are very proud of you Isaac!

MIllie is a superstar reader, I loved hearing you read your book just now Millie, well done!