Monthly Archives: March 2023

We have had a very busy term and have spent this last half term learning about the death and resurrection of Jesus. Each class has been learning about this, which […] […]

For the whole of this half term we have been learning about the Easter story, starting with Palm Sunday, through some of the events of Holy Week, to Good Friday […] […]

As part of our DT, the children designed and created their own smoothie. We discussed the importance of balanced diet and how to include a variety of fruit and vegetables […] […]

We had a very special collective worship time today where we honoured Mrs Crowley who is retiring after 23 years working at Aston St Mary’s School. She has taught us […] […]

We enjoyed our challenge to design and make a Moon Buggy or Mars Rover. First, we needed to research these vehicles to learn about their features and functions. Next, we […] […]

We throughly enjoyed writing our own non-chronological reports about the imaginary planet, Pandora. These were inspired by the book ‘Planetarium’ by Raman Prinja. We published these in our own class […] […]

This half term, we have read Fly, Eagle, Fly!, a traditional African parable retold by Christopher Gregorowski. As part of our learning, we listened to a speech by Archbishop Desmond […] […]

This half term, we have thoroughly enjoyed researching, designing and building electric vehicles. We started off by learning about how electric cars work and why they are important in tackling […] […]

We had a wonderful morning sharing in our Easter breakfast together. We talked about the Easter story and why it is such an important date in the Christian calendar. We […] […]

We have been learning about the United Kingdom and its four countries. […]

We played a ‘Yes/No’ game where we had to guess which material we had on our back by asking questions about its properties. We tested different materials to see whether […] […]

We talked about how we would welcome King Charles III if he came to our town. We also thought about what the people of Jeruselum might have said when Jesus […] […]

As part of our learning about Antarctica, the children created a model of an iceberg and explained how it forms from a glacier. They used vocabulary such as glaciers, icebergs, […] […]

We have been learning all about animals from different parts of the world. We have used the core text of ‘The Ugly Five’ by Julia Donaldson. It was really interesting […] […]

Today we had a special time celebrating the Mums and other special women in our lives. We all went to church and sang songs about our mums; ‘Happy Mother’s day, […] […]

We read the core text ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers as part of our learning about Antarctica. We really enjoyed learning about penguins this week and this story was […] […]

As part of our science and PSHE learning this week we have been looking at our teeth and how to care for them. It was really interesting to read our […] […]

In computing, Haffydown had the opportunity to create pictures on 2Paint. They looked at a variety of art styles such as pointillism, impressionism and surrealism. Below is some of their […] […]

Our book ‘Traction Man is here’ had a variety of supervillains that Traction Man had to defeat in order to save the day. In this lesson, the children imagined how […] […]

As part of our learning about ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ we created our own trolls using clay. This is a progression from using play’doh which we have used lots […] […]

As part of our fairy tale topic we read the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. We really enjoyed this story and thought a lot about the bridge that […] […]

We had a great time celebrating World Book Day! We each brought in our favourite books and we enjoyed dressing up. Today the whole school took one book – ‘Journey’ […] […]