We had another visit from The Dunwells today. How lucky are we? They did two songwriting workshops and with Year 4 and Year 5 which were performed for us at the end of the day. The songs they had written sounded great. After that we were treated to an exclusive little gig from the the …
Ed and the School Council would like to say a HUGE thank you to Team Tranmere for all of the wonderful donations that have been given for the food bank. Everyone has been so generous and we know that this donation will make a big difference to those in need.
This week is children’s mental health week, and the theme this year is all about making connections. This afternoon, Woodpeckers, Red Kites, Robins and Bluebirds decided to get together and do just that! They had lots of fun playing and exploring together. They even had a go at creating portraits using the natural materials around …
Today in Woodpeckers, we have celebrated Safer Internet Day. We started the morning by discussing both the good and the bad things about the internet. Then, we looked at some Internet profiles and analysed these to decide if they were real of fake. After this, we researched some inspirational inventors who have had a great …
On Friday, pupils, parents and teachers were treated to a class assembly by Woodpeckers. We saw some Topic, French, English, Music and some very crazy dancing! We hope you all enjoyed our performance.
This week is National Storytelling Week. To help celebrate this, the School Council have hosted a storytelling competition. Those who wanted to enter needed to write a story (true or made up) and hand it in to their class councillor. On Friday, the councillors got together to choose a selection of their favourite stories. These …
Today in Science, we have used our investigative skills to compare and group together different types of rocks based on appearance and simple physical features. To begin with, we used our 5 senses to describe the different rocks that we would be investigating. We particularly enjoyed looking at the rocks underneath the magnifying glasses in …
This term in LKS2, we have started our new topic called Scavengers and Settlers. Throughout this topic, we are going to be learning all about life in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. To kick off our learning of these different historical periods, we have taken part in a muddy puddle day focused on the …
To round off our learning of Rainforests and Chocolate, we have undertaken a chocolate bread making project. To begin with, we were given the task of designing a snack that we could make and eat whilst in the rainforest. We came up with all sorts of weird and wonderful original ideas! However, after a discussion …
Today in Woodpeckers, we have started our new multiplication and division maths unit. Before we get into our new learning for year 3 and 4, we have spent a session re-capping on the knowledge we already have about multiplication and division. To begin with, we focused on multiplication. Discussing key vocabulary, such as times by …