World Book Day
Our world book day celebration
We had to postpone our original world book day celebration, but the children made up for it with such amazing effort to recreate their favourite book characters.
Live chicks in Nursery
Living chicks in nursery
Nursery children have been learning about the life cycle of chicks
We took delivery of a number of fertilised eggs and kept a watch on them. The children saw how they started to crack and how chicks slowly emerged. They had to keep the new born chicks warm so they…
Reception Rothko class are reading Squash and a Squeeze
Reception Rothko children building a house for the little old lady in A Squash and a Squeeze
First of all after reading the story, the children thought about how much space the little old lady needs then designed and built a house for her.
Reception Rothko children learning about Full and Empty
Reception Rothko exploring Empty and Full
The children used containers and water to explore Full and empty - and half full or half empty
We are a container half full kind of school!
All Key Stage 2 children watch an NHS jobs webinar
KS2 children watch an NHS jobs webinar
4 people working in various jobs in the NHS gave a talk and answered questions posted by schools all over the country about all aspects of their jobs. This might include what were normal aspects of their job, how many hours they worked and how much they…
Nursery Pollock class have been reading 'Mrs Wishy Wash'
After reading Mrs Wishy Wash - the children explored the story
The children were role playing various aspects of the story with mud! Yummy!
Year 1 Mondrian exploring Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Year 1 Mondrian learning about Vertebrates in science
The children have been learning about how we divide animals up into those who have backbones which we call 'Vertebrates' and those who do not which we call 'invertebrates'. They separated animals into their specific grouping. They then…
Year 1 Mondrian are reading 'These Feelings'
Year 1 Mondrian are reading 'These Feelings'
The children having read the book 'These feelings' started to explore what different feelings there are, and what happens when we have those feelings, and what makes you have those feelings.
Reception Rothko class are looking at flour
Reception Rothko class have been looking at flour
The children have been exploring where flour comes from - what it is made from - how it is made and seeing if they could make their own!
Nursery Pollock class are reading The Three Little Pigs and exploring building materials
After reading The Three Little Pigs - Nursery Pollock class looked at the best materials to build something
Nursery and Reception exploring mass and weight of objects
Nursery Pollock class and Reception Rothko class using scales to explore mass / heaviness and lightness using scales
In Maths the notion of heaviness introduces 'more than. and 'less than' when we consider if an object is heavier than another.
Here, Reception children are looking at…