Clarinet Practise

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The children in Year 3 Octopus's have been having a hoot on Thursday afternoons.  They have all been learning to play the clarinet by a lovely lady Jemima from the music service.   The children have learnt how to put the clarinet together and then how to blow.  Which we have found out is not as…

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Hocus Pocus

This week Foundation have been reading the story Hansel and Gretel as part of our topic about witches and wizards.

The children have been acting out the story in our story shed. We have had some very nasty witches and some fantastic acting!

     

The children have also built their…

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Year 3 Octopus Haiku Poetry

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The children in Year 3 octopus began their new topic this week, PREDATOR! They will be dsicovering about different birds of prey and other predaors from around the world.  We began our English lessons learning about Haiku poems.  We read and discussed Predaor and Prey poem.  The children learnt…

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Year 1 hunting for fairies!

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Year 1 went on a very special hunt this week and they got very excited about what they found! We went for a walk in the Enchanted Woodland, reading clues as we went along. We discovered lots of evidence of REAL FAIRIES! The clues led us to lots of different things that they had left for us like…

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Year 6 - We're being bombed!

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Wow!  What a morning!  When we first arrived in school, we had to crawl under a camouflage net and avoid the bombing in London.  Every time the air raid siren went off, we carried out our ‘drill’, hiding under the tables to take shelter!

During the rest of the morning, we imagined how we would…

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Year 6 - Survival Day

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What an AMAZING day!!!!!!

We had a brilliant day as part of our 'Frozen Kingdom' topic doing:


- erecting tents
- cooking: veg sausages and beans
- marshmallows over the fire 
- learning how to tie knots
- building shelters for an animal to live in
- create a game to keep them warm but…

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Spring 1 Topic Burps, Bottoms and Bile

This half term Year 4 have been learning all about the digestive system as part of our topic. 

In English we have been writing explanation texts about how to keep teeth healthy, along with fantasy narratives to describe food's incredible journey through the digestive system!

As part of our…

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Science Time!

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Year 3 conducted a very interesting experiment to find out why Icarus really fell from the sky. We set up our 'wings' made from feathers and melted wax in four different sets of conditions and then observed what happened in each of these conditions. We were shocked at our results! 

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Greek Feast!

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Year 3 hosted a Greek day today! We came into school dressed up as Greek Gods and Goddesses! We enjoyed a Greek feast and participated in many Greek activities like writing our own myths and the Greek Olympics! 

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Parent Event

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Year 3 invited their parents in as part of our 'express' element of our topic. During this event we wanted to present our parents with the work we had produced and they key facts we had found out about the Ancient Greeks. 

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E-safety in Year 3 Seahorses

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David Brooks came to visit our school and talked to the children about ways in which we can keep ourselves safe online. We talked about dangers which are out there and what is meant by personal information. We found the session really interesting! 

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Chinese New Year

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Year 3 have been celebrating Chinese New Year this week. We created our own Chinese dragons and lanterns to help bring in the Year of the Monkey! 

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