Blog by Mrs C Bradley

This short school week got off to an exciting bang with our fabulous firework poetry. Children enjoyed talking about their own Bonfire night experiences in the class and used their observations to write fabulous poetry. We found out all about Guy Fawkes and why we have Bonfire night every year.…

It's been a frightfully funny week in Sunshine class we have been reading Funny Bones and finding out all about the skeleton. Some children were fascinated by all the bones in the body, how they are different shapes and sizes. We learnt a song to find out which bones were connected to which.…

This week has been truely magical as we have been reading 'Room on the broom' by Julia Donaldson. Our activities including making witches, wands, spells in our couldron and collaging spooky words have been lots of fun.

On Wednesday Sunshine class went to Beacon fell and had a wonderful time…

This week has been a creative week of Autumn fun. We have made leaf charms, bird feeders and season posters.

Sunshine class have enjoyed finding out about the different seasons and how each one is different because of the weather.

In maths this week we have been ordering our numbers to 10,…

This week has been pirate week. We have had lots of fun doing different activities. 

Monday - All the children in ks1 got into groups and rotated round the classrooms doing different activities. They made pirate hats, flags, telescopes, eye patches, boats and bunting.

Tuesday - Each class…

In our English lesson we have been writing our own stories about deep see diving. The children decided who they wanted to see under the sea and what they would do.

          'Dougal got stuck in some sea weed and a shark bit through the net to rescue him' (Daniel)

          'Dougal and a…

In English this week we finished looking at The man on the moon. The children wrote what happened in the story. We then started looking at Dougals deep sea diary and talked about the similarities and differences between Atlantis and Preston. Ask your children about the 2 stories we have we…

We have been discussing a trip to the moon during our English lesson. The children used their imagination to role play and tell us how they would get to the moon, who they would see there and what they would do there.

In Maths we have looked at weights. The children weighed different items from…

In English we have read the magic bed story then the children made their own fantasy stories up.

Maths this week has been all about adding 3 small numbers together and spotting pairs to ten and doubles.

In science we have looked at the properties of everyday materials.

During our Art…

In English this week we have been looking at instructions. We have made strawberry ice-cream together as a class then each group decided which flavour ice-cream they would like to make. On Friday afternoon Gold class came down to try our ice-cream and decided which flavour was their best. The…

In English we have been looking at non fiction text about the jobs that people do. 

In Maths we have been looking at tens and units.

During our p.e lesson on Monday we practiced our throwing and catching skills and on Wednesday we did some orienteering. The children followed a simple trail.…

In English this week we have been writing Poems. Describing what we would be like if we were an animal.

          If I were a zebra

          I would race and ride

         But for now Im happy to be me. (Arham)

In maths we have been looking at patterns in numbers and talking about…