Blog Author: Ben Thomas

Over the past two weeks, Year 2 have loved learning outdoors. We have covered lots of areas of the curriculum by learning outside, from role playing Little Red Riding Hood using the outdoor classroom, investigating outdoor materials and producing some fantastic outdoor art. We also learned and…

Today we have been practicing the ocarina. We have been learning to play ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’. 

The results are in! This year’s school council representatives are Amelia and Joseph! Well done, 

This week in Holly Class we have started our new Geography topic; Mapping!

We completed a pre-learning lesson about what maps are and what they are used for. We then discussed what a compass is and what the letters on the compass mean.

 Next week we will be designing our own maps and using…

Year 2 celebrated the end of an excellent week with a story in the new outdoor classroom! The class have really worked really hard and have already produced some really good pieces of work, well done Year 2! 

This afternoon Year 3 got the opportunity to share their music learning with their parents. Children sang ‘This Is Me’ from ‘The Greatest Showman’, ‘Shotgun’ by George Ezra and a kenning poem called ‘Our School’ that the children wrote together. Children then used Purple Mash to show their parents…

In Year 3 today we have been learning how to colour mix. We used the primary colours and made other colours by mixing two or three primary colours together.

World Cup fever has hit Year 3!

This week children have all been assigned a country to research and produce work about. Children have made a flag, found out interesting facts about their country, and made a PicCollage on the iPads too.

In Year 3 this week, we have been learning about angles. On Thursday, despite the very windy conditions, the children completed a range of angle challenges outside. They had to write down the route from the start of the cones to the end using the vocabulary; forward, 90 degrees, clockwise and…

In preparation for the royal wedding, Y5 made flower sculptures and researched royal weddings.  

In Year 3, to celebrate the royal wedding, we have been creating wedding invitations. We used the PicCollage app on the iPads to combine text and graphics to produce the invites. Some of our invitations are below, we think Harry and Meghan will be delighted by them!

This week in Science, Year 3 have been learning why different plants need different amounts of water, heat and light. To understand this, we are going to investigate it by planting seeds in different conditions. Some of the seeds are outside where they will have access to light, heat and water and…