This year in Year 1, our highlight has been learning how to write Acrostic poems! We studied different types of poetry to see what made acrostic poems unique and then applied what we learned to our own poems about Moths or Butterflies. We spent time...
This week, Reception introduced a new key text: The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We have had lots of fun retelling the story and joining in with known rhymes throughout. We had a special delivery of chocolate-scented playdough and the children have loved being creative in designing...
In RE this half term, Nursery are exploring special clothes in different religions. On Monday, we had two special visitors from SAINT church, Keziah and Vera, who came into class to show us special clothes in Christianity. Firstly, the children identified special clothes around them...
This week, Year 6 had the privilege of visiting the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple to complement their RE unit. We had an excellent time exploring the temple, participating in a very interesting tour and learning all about the Buddhist origins and teachings. Some children...
This week in Year 4, we have been looking at the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in our history lessons. One of the things we have been learning about is how the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain in 410AD. One of our amazing students Umut has created a...
This half term, Year 3 have been exploring the programme scratch for computing. They will be using the programme to create their own interactive stories, games and animations. [gallery ids="20797,20798,20799"]...
In Year 2 this week we have been looking at the balance of good health and discussing what a healthy diet would look like. We looked at the different food groups and what certain foods do for our health and well- being. Take a look...
This week in Year 1 our highlight was visiting a Synagogue. We have been learning about Judaism in RE over this half term and were excited to learn more! We saw all the special places in the Synagogue and recognised the different symbols like the...
Our creative activity in Nursery this week was to paint a snowman. The children firstly thought about the shape of the snowman's body and how many circles they needed to paint. Once dried, the children were encouraged to think about different snowman features such as;...
This week, in Computing, we were introduced to our brand new topic: programming using Scratch. We recapped key terms that we have seen before, including ‘sprite’, and practised adding sprites and changing backgrounds independently. We then looked at what variables are in computing: a value...