Blog by S Wilson

This week we have welcomed the season of spring with open arms, especially by enjoying the glorious weather we have had by spending lots of time outside.

This week we have started our new topic of spring, farms and life cycles. We have explored the life cycle of a frog and made life cycle…

This week we have celebrated World Book Day. 

Throughout the day we:

- Made treasure maps and found treasure

- Make pirate swords

- Took part in a pirate dance and sang pirate themed songs

- Pirate headhunters

- Enjoyed drama performances in assembly by KS2

- Shared lots of…

With Burns Night coming up at the end of the week, we have learnt all about Scotland and Burns Night.

Our learning has included:

- A Scottish highland dance to traditional bagpipe music, which we also performed for the rest of School

- Trying traditional Scottish food such as tattie…

This week we have continued our topic on Winter. We have explored the Antarctica, the Artic Circle and other places on Earth that are known for their cold weather. We have discussed and researched animals that live in cold climates compared to hot climates and why, how people live and survive…

Our penultimate week of Autumn Term 2 has been one to remember!

We have performed our ‘Boogie Woogie Nativity’ to our families and friends and all of the children did a marvellous job. We are very proud of them all.

Also this week we have enjoyed singing Christmas songs and starting our…

We have had a fantastic week and we have started rehearsing our Nativity in the hall; with Sunshine and Rainbow classes and we have worked so hard with singing our songs, learning our lines and dancing in front of others.

We have learnt about the Nativity and the birth of Jesus in our R.E…

We have had a short but sweet week with only three days in School.

- We have recapped the sounds ‘ar’ and ‘ear’ in Phonics.

- We created mud pie poems.

- We learnt about counting on in multiples of five in Mathematics.

- We discussed and celebrated our own and others strengths.

-…

On Monday morning we had a surprise in our classroom! The Big Green Dragon had visited our classroom on Sunday night, leaving a letter and a lot of mess in our classroom. We cleaned it up, read the letter and then looked for clues on how he got in. On Tuesday we wrote letters to the Dragon and…

Our top five moment of the week:

1. We foraged for some materials to paint with in our Art lesson with Mrs Dorota.
2. We explored and compared the structure of animals in Science.
3. In Mathematics we have looked at 2D shapes.
4. We have made inferences about a picture in our Reading Skills…

This week:

- We enjoyed celebrating the Queen on Tuesday as we made cards, performed to ‘Dancing Queen’ with Miss Leah in dance and designed new postcards for King Charles.

- We experimented with colour mixing in Art with Mrs Dorota.

- In History we explored toys from the past.

- In…

We have had a fabulous four day week in Moonbeam Class and here are some of our highlights:

- We have enjoyed using bee bots as part of our direction and position work in Mathematics.

- We explored our similarities and what we have in common with our friends in PSHCE.

- In Geography we…

We have had a wonderful week this week to match the wonderful weather.

- In English we have started our new poetry topic and written poems about our favourite cuddly toys.

- In Mathematics we have identified and ordered days of the week and months of the year and then answered questions…