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To start our science topic looking at plant growth and human nutrition the children learnt bout seeds and bulbs today. They each planted two sunflower seeds and are going to care for them over the next month and observe the changes that happen. 

We have been reading and writing about the story…

This afternoon, the children in Upper School completed their PE lesson inside due to the inclement weather. We decided to use the skills learnt so far in rugby for some games of benchball. The teams used a rugby ball and a ‘pocket pass’ which is an across the body pass used in rugby matches. There…

In our last session learning about forces, Upper School conducted an experiment to test different sized parachutes. They cut out tissue paper squares of differing lengths (14cm, 20cm, 30cm) and hung playdoh from them to represent the weight of a person. Each group then measured the length of time…

It’s been a very exciting afternoon at the curling rink where 6 children from Year 5/6 have taken part in an inter-schools competition. After playing 5 games against other local schools, they won 2, drew 1 and lost 2. A fantastic effort in a very difficult contest! In the end, our brilliant team…

Our Reception children are learning how to use different materials to make marks in their art activities this week. They are improving their fine motor skills and show greater care and accuracy when they are drawing.

Yesterday they began to explore making marks with wax crayons. They…

Today we started a new art project learning how to create 3D paper sculptures as we work towards a bigger project. To begin with they had some skills to achieve to be able to say …

• I can roll paper to make a cylinder.
• I can combine paper cylinders to make a sculpture.
• I can adapt my…

Our Magic Story Cupboard gave us the most beautiful picture book one day this week, it’s called ‘Molly, Olive and Dexter - Who’s Afraid of the Dark?’ By Catherine Rayner. 

Catherine’s illustrations are so beautiful that I decided they would be a great inspiration for the children to learn and…

Our Year 1 and 2 children have been busy learning how to add and subtract two, two digit numbers crossing and not crossing ten recently. 

These photos show the children adding the digits, talking and learning collaboratively. 

Our Reception children are busy learning how to construct a sentence, here is a snapshot of just one of the activities they have done this week helping them to understand how sentences are made. 

They cut out the jumbled up words, rearrange them to make a sentence and then glue them beneath the…

The children were taught part of a dance routine today which they were quick to pick up and enjoyed learning. After rehearsing this, the class then worked in pairs to come up with their own moves to add to the dance and complete it. The children demonstrated their ideas to each other with a final…

Today the class explored air resistance and the force of surface friction by making balloon rockets out of different shaped balloons and using different types to string to make their balloon rockets move. They discovered that friction slows objects down and stops them; they discussed how smoother…

We have had a little move around in our Lower School classroom and now have a new role play area which the children are really enjoying. Our theme for learning in Year 1 and 2 this half term is ‘Explorers’ and after lots of discussion together the children got to decide what they wanted me to make…