St John and St James had such a special day celebrating World Book Day. We were so impressed with the tremendous range of costumes both children and adults wore, sharing their favourite characters from their favourite texts! We started the day sharing who we were dressed...
On Wednesday morning, Year 6 were invited to take part in a very exciting workshop with author, Puneet Bhandal. Puneet is a former Bollywood film journalist and her work is often inspired by some of the incredible experiences that she has come across. Most recently,...
In science, Year 5 began an enquiry into whether washing our hands is effective. Before handling slices of bread, some children left their hands unwashed, some washed their hands with only water, and some washed their hands with soap. We then sealed the bread in...
For this writing cycle, we are writing an adventure narrative to continue Arthur's trip. He has found his first item to create the Golden Rope, and we are now going to find out about his journey to find his second. Determined to succeed and to make...
This week, we have been learning all about fractions. We have been learning about unit and non-unit fractions, and using fraction fans and bar models to help us understand the numerators and denominators. [gallery ids="12153,12154,12155,12156"]...
Year 2 created some great pieces of work for their homework about Fairtrade. [gallery ids="12115,12116,12117,12118"]...
For our geography learning this week, year one went on a walk of our local area. We undertook a land use survey to see what our local area had to offer and how this is different to what we might see in a rural area. [gallery ids="12197,12198,12199,12200,12201,12202,12203,12205,12206,12207"]...
This week in Reception we have begun a exciting journey using our core text The Train Ride. We experimented with different ways to paint using trains. We also used story maps to support our writing and understanding of the story. We were lucky to have...
This week during our mark making activity, children drew a ladybird minibeast which is a focus of ours as a ladybird is one of the main characters in our literacy core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We discussed and...