We had a lovely day outside on Thursday. In the morning we took part in a carousel of activities where we practised tying knots; overhand knots, knots for friendship bracelets and fastening shoelaces. (We continued tying shoelaces inside.) In the afternoon, we had a carousel of Victorian games which included football, hoops and sticks, skipping, …
As part of our topic learning, the children have been learning about the evolution of toys. We have focused on 3 centuries from the 19th century through to present day. We used a simple timeline to identify which elements of this time were ‘within living memory’ and ‘beyond living memory.’We learnt that in the 19th …
Today we performed ‘Simply the Nativity’ to a packed audience. The children did brilliantly and put on a superb show. We hope you enjoyed watching ! Simply the Nativity Programme
As our Exit Point to our ‘Toys’ topic, KS1 visited Abbey House Museum. We wanted to learn more about old and new toys and Abbey House Museum have a fantastic toy museum which we could explore. After embarking on a very exciting coach trip (always a highlight) we spent the day accessing toy workshops, exploring …
Today, Herons completed various activities that supported their oracy development. We watched videos of good examples, Miss Bell showed what a bad one would look like and we played games to improve our sentences, how clear we spoke and tried hard to give eye contact. It was great to see everyone improve throughout the day …
Herons have been working hard on their place value to 100. We have used different practical equipment to represent a variety of numbers.
As part of our English work we have been exploring The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. Herons sequenced the story and had fun acting it out.
In art, the children have been identifying the 3 primary colours – red, blue and yellow. Using these colours, the children then went on to mix the secondary colours – orange, purple and green.The children loved to experiment and recognised that whilst they were all mixing together the same colours, they were all creating slightly …
Today, the children got to meet some interesting animals and found out lots of fun facts about them. The animals included: – a very big snake – a very smelly meerkat – a very hairy tarantula – a very wise owl – a very cute tortoise – a very wriggly millipede Ask your children their …
This morning, we have been looking at measuring using centimetres and metres. We discussed that there are 100cm in 1m. The class partnered up to measure different objects in our classroom using a 30cm ruler. If objects were slightly bigger than the ruler, we used our finger as a marker and measured the other part …