Image of Year 4 Computing - Persuasive Letters and Posters
15 May

Year 4 Computing - Persuasive Letters and Posters

Year 4 have been building upon their flow charts last week and writing persuasive letters and posters campaigning for a new playground in computing.

Image of Year 3 History - Preparing for the Afterlife.
15 May

Year 3 History - Preparing for the Afterlife.

During their topic on the Ancient Egyptians Year 3 have been learning about the process of Mummification and how the Egyptians were prepared for the afterlife.

Image of Year 5 English Journey To The River Sea
15 May

Year 5 English Journey To The River Sea

Today in our English lesson we discussed the Amazon rainforest setting from our class novel, Journey To The River Sea. The children then listened to Miss Lawson write her version of the setting.

Image of Year 3 English - Identifying a Key Idea in a Paragraph
13 May

Year 3 English - Identifying a Key Idea in a Paragraph

Today in English, Year 3 have been identifying key ideas in paragraphs about the Ancient Egyptians. Each group were given packs containing paragraphs and subheadings. They had to read each paragraph and match it with the correct subheading. Taking it in turns the children then moved around the room to see if the paragraphs had been sorted correctly.

Image of Year 3 English - IdentifyingKey Words in Paragraphs
10 May

Year 3 English - IdentifyingKey Words in Paragraphs

In English today, Year 3 worked in small groups to research facts about Tutankhamun and the Pharaohs. They then shared their facts with rest of the class.

Image of Introducing Recount Letters - Year 2
8 May

Introducing Recount Letters - Year 2

Year 2 have started their English topic on recount letters. We have read a variety of letters developing our reading fluency. Today we investigated different unknown words from the letters we read.

Image of Pre-School- Literacy and Maths- Calendar
8 May

Pre-School- Literacy and Maths- Calendar

Everyday Pre- school children take part in Calendar time. In this short activity we learn the day, date, month and what letter sound they start with. The children learn to recognise their own name card and letter sound. We then count how many children are in our class and put them into groups, recognising which group has more or less.

Image of Year 4 English - Poetry
8 May

Year 4 English - Poetry

We have started a new English Unit this week - based on the poem 'The River' by Valerie Bloom. We have spent the week exploring some of the writing styles, images and also exploring some physical features of rivers.

Image of Year 4 Maths - Money
8 May

Year 4 Maths - Money

This week we have started our new topic of money... whilst discreetly continuing our previous topic of decimals. A important topic in this day of age, especially in a new generation of contactless payments, Apple and Google Pay etc. Had some good fun.

Image of Year 3 English - Ancient Egyptians
3 May

Year 3 English - Ancient Egyptians

As part of their new English topic on the Ancient Egyptians, Year 3 have been exploring and identifying the main and subordinate clauses in complex sentences.

Image of Year 3 - English  Mummies and Their Sarcophagus'
2 May

Year 3 - English Mummies and Their Sarcophagus'

Year 3 started their new topic in English writing a non-chronological report about the Ancient Egyptians. As an introduction to the topic today they made their own Sarcophagus and turned a peg into a mummy.

Image of Pre-school-Literacy-The Giant Jam Sandwich
1 May

Pre-school-Literacy-The Giant Jam Sandwich

Literacy We have started reading the story of 'The Giant Jam Sandwich'. The children have been creating different pictures and learning new words but today we decided to make our own jam sandwiches with different styles and tastes of bread. The children selected which bread they would like and added jam if they wanted to. We discussed the sweet smell and how the wasps were attracted to the town.