Week 8: Orang-utan

Top Five Moments of Week 8: 

1. We enjoyed speaking about Bonfire Night, we learnt about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. 

2. We learnt all about orang-utans and read our new non-fiction book. 

3. In PE, we played football with the football coach and we balanced in gymnastics. 

4. We…

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Zooming through the Week

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Zooming through the week!

What a fabulous week we have had finding out all about Bonfire night and how it all began many years ago with the very naughty Guy Fawkes and his gunpowder barrels.

We have thoroughly enjoyed creating our own fireworks, Catherine wheels and rockets. We made lovely…

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Back into the swing of things

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Welcome back to Autumn Term 2 where we are very excited to get straight back into learning and having fun with the children.

This week we have studied poetry in English and we have written an acrostic poem about Autumn, following an Autumn walk in the School grounds, we performed a rhyming…

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The Fires of Pompeii

We have started our new English topic about Pompeii which is a topic that the children have found incredibly excited. Below is a run down of the activities we have carried out so far in this unit:

  1. This week in English we carried out research in what happened in Italy in 79AD. We learnt that…
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A spooktacular end to half term

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We have had an amazing week to end our first half term in Moonbeam Class. Although we have not been in for a couple of weeks, the children have more than made up for it with their fantastic work, contributions and efforts in class

This week, we have looked at the story ‘ARGH SPIDER!’ where we…

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Week 7: Could It Be Magic

Top Five Moments of our Spooky Week. 

1. We have been learning all about poetry and reading spooky poems. 

2. We have been learning about healthy eating and how medicines can be harmful.

3. We have been hunting shapes, learning about 2D Shape properties and lines of symmetry.

4.We have…

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Week 6: Silly Billy

Top Five Moments from Week 6

1. We have read Silly Billy and Operation Night Monster in English. 

2. We have been partitioning numbers and learning number bonds to 10. 

3. We enjoyed two PE lessons, one about dance and one with the football coach. 

4. We have been using atlas skills to…

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What week is it?!

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Believe it or not, this week is week 7 of Autumn Term!! Where has the time gone?!

This week we have got straight down to business and carried on our autobiographies in English. The children have been looking at the features of an autobiography including writing in past tense, first person and…

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Autumn Fun

Autumn Fun!
I can’t believe how much we have packed into one week in school. 
Sunshine class has been learning all about Autumn time. We have collected leaves, sticks and acorns, and we have also found out about conkers and how the weather changes during this season.  I am so pleased with the…

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The Top Moments of Week 2

  1. Head Hunters. This week we created our own set of Head Hunters cards to find around the school grounds. Each of the sets had to be linked together but the theme of the cards was up to us.
  2. Clay Painting. We started the week by painting our clay mythical creatures that we had created last week.…
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Our second week...done and dusted!

Our second week in Moonbeam Class is over and we can’t believe how fast it has gone.

Here are some of our top moments in class from this week:

1. We have written, ordered and identified missing numbers in Mathematics.

2. We have written sentences in English.

3. We have exercised,…

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Sunshine Class First Full Week

Our first full week in school…

What a fabulous week we have had in Sunshine class this week.

The children have already settled in really well, and are following the school rules and routines brilliantly.

We have been great at listening at carpet times. We have learnt 4 new sounds this…

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