Lower School (KS1)

A few weeks ago, Luke’s Grandma kindly brought us some frog spawn to study. We kept it at school long enough to see a few tadpoles emerge before giving it back for it to be returned to the pond for the tadpoles to grow and turn into frogs in their natural environment. 
 

It gave us a great…

How can I find out more about myself? Was the question we asked ourselves this week in our history lesson. Whilst exploring this question the children learnt more about their own history. They talked about three special memories to begin with and explained why memories such as an event or occasion…

During this half term the children are learning some similarities and differences between the past and their own lives. They have learnt that a timeline shows the order events in the past happened. We started by looking at now on a timeline and then looked back. 

Take a look at these photos…

The children wrote their own books and became authors on World Book Day!

The children have been improving their fine motor an drawing skills drawing robots. Once they were happy with their drawings the children used watercolour paints to paint them. They practised lots of skills, using the brushes and paints correctly whilst learning how to use the right amount of…

The children made some awesome bookmarks this afternoon after our whole school buddy reading time. They’re keeping them in their new World Book Day books!

World Book Day fun began (after we had listened to a story) with the children reading lots of books and searching for certain characters and other things in books. 
 

This year for World Book Day we all dressed up in an outfit that showed an adjective as we are focusing on spelling and grammar in our literacy work right now. Thank you so much to our children and families for joining in the fun and creating some brilliant outfits. Take a look at the children…

Each term we dip in and out of science learning about plants, observing what is growing at different times of the year. The children build up their knowledge and understanding of seasonal changes and the different stages of, and needs for, plant growth.

Yesterday, we had a discussion about…

This week we have been enjoying the picture book called ‘Tom’s Magnificent Machines’ by Linda Sarah and Ben Mantle. After doing a variety of creative drawing and writing tasks the children finished the week by designing their own magnificent machines. Then the children created a set of…

We had the loveliest time on Tuesday afternoon when Upper School came to spend time with us and have some fun. The children from Upper School reminisced about the things they loved doing when they were in Lower School and had the chance to play with the children and  everyone enjoyed themselves.…

Our Reception children have been building on their number skills and knowledge of numbers to 5. Over the past two weeks they have been counting one more, one less as well as joining in with Year 1 & 2’s maths talk every day!

Take a look at these photos where they were singing and acting out the…