During the spring term, we are going to be exploring animals and their habitats. We will be answering the following learning questions and also investigating microhabitats in our school grounds. How can we tell if something is alive? What is […]
During spring term, our geography unit will explore the Isle of Coll in Scotland. Our sequence of learning will embed lots of physical and human geographical knowledge and will involve lots of map work. We will be answering the following […]
A few weeks ago, we enjoyed our trip to Rye Mead’s Nature Reserve with Peartree. We had great fun ponddipping and hunting for mini beasts. We learnt about backswimmers, ram horned pond snails and manyother fascinating creatures. A highlight was […]
In art we have been using autumn leaves as our inspiration to explore different drawing techniques. Firstly, we collected our favourite leaves and copied them carefully. We had to pay close attention to the use of line, shape and visual […]
During English, we have been using the book “A World Full of Plastic” to inspire our writing. Afterdiscussing ways in which we could help, the children decided to write to the government to request thatour school fruit and veg snack […]
On Tuesday 7th December, the whole school enjoyed a fun filled geography and RE enrichment day to discover how Christmas is celebrated around the world in different countries and cultures. Every class was assigned with a different continent to focus […]
In our English lessons we were reading Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems. We really enjoyed this book and it inspired us to write our own version about our own favourite toys. We wrote our pages, designed the front covers including […]
During this topic we will be learning all about our local area. We will look at the different types of houses there are. We will compare our local area to towns and cities and talk about the use of land […]
Our learning question for this half term is – Was it always easy for Jesus to show friendship? We will look at the stories of Zacchaeus; Mary, Martha and Lazarus and the calming of the storm. We will also be […]
During this topic we will be looking at and sorting a variety of materials using different criteria. We will look at the different properties of materials and discuss which materials are good or bad for certain purposes. We will learn […]
We have enjoyed performing in our Nativity play. We loved dressing up, singing all of our songs and creating dances. […]
We read the book ‘Leaf man’ by Lois Ehlert. During our forest school session we created our own leaf man pictures and talked about where they might go! […]
On Tuesday 7th December 2021, the whole school enjoyed a fun filled geography and RE enrichment day to discover how Christmas is celebrated around the world in different countries and cultures. Every class was assigned with a different continent to […]
We had a whole school enrichment day learning about how Christmas is celebrated around the world. We had videos letters sent from friends and family all over the world which was very exciting. We spent a lot f our day […]
We have been reading a lot of space books and learning about space! We have found out about the planets, astronauts and even had some cheeky aliens come and invade our classroom! We designed and made our own junk model […]
Today we had a special collective worship where we dressed our Christmas tree. Mrs Holmes told us a story while year 6 dressed the tree. This is always a special day in our school and signals the beginning of advent […]