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Upper School class had a visit from Mhairi, STEM ambassador from the Ogden Trust, who ran two workshops. The one in the morning reinforced our current learning about electricity with practical activities involving making series circuits using circuit diagrams, testing voltage and to extend the…

As part of the Upper School homework activities this term, the children were asked to design and make an advent calendar which could be shared with the class or with their family. Several of these have been brought into school now and they are fantastic! Such a lot of time and effort has gone into…

Today the children Upper School continued their learning about the Banana Trade having read Juliana’s Bananas. They were introduced to the idea of fair trade and spent time thinking about how much money members of the supply chain should be paid for their part in the trade of bananas. We had a…

Our reception children have been learning lots about shapes this week, naming them and their properties, drawing and going in shape hunts. Sadly I didn’t manage to get any photos of them!

They have also been investigating the numbers 4 and 5 …

Our Year 1 & 2 children have been developing their understanding of place value this week using place value charts. 

They are making great progress!

What a fantastic PE lesson we had with Logan from PNE! We learnt how to play invasion ball games by improving our throwing and catching skills; he taught us different techniques for attack and defence; we learnt about using space and keeping moving to win a goal. 

Our Year 1 and 2 children are busy developing their understanding of place value at the moment. They have been learning how to groups tens and ones to help themselves solve problems with number.

Today they played a game when one child created a representation of a number less than 50 using base…

Our art and design project linked very well to our Geography based topic called ‘Our Local Area’ as we investigated maps as a stimulus for drawing. 

The children began by looking at a series of images of maps and sorted them into groups. They sorted them into: old and new, real and imaginary,…

Our Reception children do lots of counting and recognising numbers activities indoors and outdoors as they learn to develop their knowledge. Here are a few photos of a few activities they’ve done recently…

We love maths! Our Year 1 and 2 children have been learning doubles and near doubles and then applying their knowledge to help them solve addition and subtraction problems. 

In these photos (taken over a few days) you can see the children playing different games. The first two games asked them…

Our Reception children have been improving their fine motor skills and developing their understanding of patterns. They have been talking about shapes and colours and created their own repeating patterns. 

We learnt all about the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali. We read a beautiful book called One Diwali Day by Dev Kothari and illustrated by Aditi Anand which created lots of questions and discussion. Our year 1 and 2 children then wrote facts and created fact files whilst our Reception…